This is a simple website bulit using HTML & CSS.
Rum Wars is a site that is bulit for history nerds, people who like finding out new facts about everyday ordinary things (i.e. people who are drawn towards weird and usual stories.), & finally drink connoisseurs. After learning about the history of rum there will be a drinks section, with a list of popular rum drinks.
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- Across the whole website there is a fully responsive navigation bar that includes a Logo, a home button, type section, and a drinks section. It is fixed to the top and and is identical across the whole site to allow for easy intuitive navigation.
- This allows users to easily navigate throughout the site across all devices without frustration
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- the landing page includes photograph with a responsive text overlay to engage and draw in the user.
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- The history section will explain different aspects of rum's history. With a strong eye catching title.
- This section will be interesting and engaging, hopefully encouraging the user to continue reading, sharing the information and checking out the drinks page.
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- The types page has a strong hero image with responsive text overlay like the landing page.
- This section provides the users with hey description different styles of rums, their origins, production and heritage.
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- This section will provide users with a list of mixed drinks and cocktails containing rum.
- The user will be given a recipe, along with a list of ingredients and steps on how to prepare the drink.
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- The footer section includes links to the relevant social media sites. The links will open in a new tab to allow easy navigation for the user.
- The footer is valuable to the user as it encourages them to keep connected via social media.
- The footer will also include a "subscribe to our newsletter" box in which they will add their email.
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- This section located in the footer of the website will allow users to sign up to a newsletter where they will be kept up to date with events and each month receive and new cocktail recipe. The user is required to enter their e-mail address.
- The website has been tested on a myriad of browsers including Google Chrome, edge, safari on a Mac book, brave, Mozilla Firefox.
- the website has been tested on multiple devices desktop, laptop, IPhone 12.
- extensive testing was done cross these devices to ensure websites worked and responded as desired.
- family members were asked to look over the web sites to see if any errors cropped up or user issues.
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- No errors were found when running the code through the official W3C validator.
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- No errors were found when running the code through the official jigsaw.W3C validator.
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- I have confirmed that the colors and fonts chosen for the website are easy to read and accessible by running lighthouse in devtools.
- The site was deployed to GitHub pages. The steps to deploy are as follows:
- In the GitHub repository, navigate to the Settings tab
- From from the left side menu navigate to the pages tab, find the source section click the dropdown menu with none then select main branch.
- Once the main branch has been selected click the save button, the page will be automatically refreshed with a detailed ribbon display to indicate the successful deployment.
The live link can be found here https://yokai-san.github.io/Rum-Wars/index.html
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- The code that makes the social media links was taken from the CI Love Running project.
- The code that makes the navigation bar was taken from the CI Love Running project.
- The code for the text overlay on top of the hero images was taken from W3Schools How TO - Cutout Text tutorial.
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- The text for the history page was writen from Blindboy Podcast Sugar Push
- The text for the types of room page was taken from LUXURY COLUMNIST
- The text and image for the recipe on the drinks page is from garnish with lemon
- The icons in the footer were taken from Font Awesome
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- the photo used on the history page is from civil beat
- the images on the types page are from 31 whiskey
- the hero image on the types page is from Getty Images
- the hero image on the drinks page is from boat international