Originally, we thought of many ideas that we could use such as China’s Cultural Revolution, the Civil Rights Movement, Stonewall, and the Zoot Suit Riots. In the end, we landed on the Manilatown/International Hotel protests. We decided to do this because this topic interested us the most and we wanted to learn more. One very important reason we decided to do this was that it took place in California, our home state. We also knew the most about this topic before researching. The history of Manilatown and the I-Hotel is extremely interesting and this is what drew us in and led us to do this fun project.
As mentioned in the elevator pitch, our website is supposed to assist people wanting to participate in the Manilatown protests of 1977. The website follows this by providing an information page, a history page, two template pages for phone and letter, and a contact us page. The home page acts as a “guide” to each page. The information page contains information regarding the protests and who to contact. The history page provides information regarding the history of Manilatown and the I-Hotel. The template pages serve as a guide for people wanting to write/call their representatives. Lastly, the contact us page provides multiple methods to contact us.
We built this by starting to use Figma (linked below) to design a prototype of our project. Afterward, we used videos to help guide us as we coded it on repl.it. We used HTML and CSS to code it.
The challenges that we ran into were not knowing parts of the code needed for the project. So we had to spend most of our time watching videos to learn on the way.
We're most proud of being able to complete a website from total scratch and learning a lot along the way. We came into this hackathon barely knowing HTML and CSS, but we came out with a useable website. As Gabrielle, I'm personally most proud of the fact that we were able to finish everything we wanted to in the time we had. We had a goal and we followed through with it. Though we could obviously add more, we were able to complete everything we wanted to in the time we had, and that's enough for me at least.
We learned how to better improve our HTML and CSS skills. We also improved our collaboration skills through many meetings and talking through our gameplan every day.
Figma: https://www.figma.com/file/HNwe1UQUSuDeW45QEmZ5zx/Untitled?node-id=0%3A1
(We used our mentors GitHub due to technical issues).
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