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One more week until we break for August, so last week was all about tying up loose ends with Lockrose and Portico Investments
Both projects have gone smoothly. The clients are pleased with everything I handed over and I had a great time working with both groups of people. Projects don’t come much better than these two did.
After some final copy edits and a new illustration for the Lockrose home page, I transfered the Github repo to their account. Lockrose had never used Git before and weren’t familiar with how it works or what it does, so I gave them a set of instructions to follow on how to set up their account.
With their new account in place, I transferred the repo ownership to them, leaving me as a collaborator. I had expected to have to change a few things on my side to carry on editing the website. I was surprised that even though the new repo had a different path, my commits via GitHub desktop weren’t interrupted.
Then, I gave Lockrose another set of instructions for creating a Netlify account, connecting it to GitHub, and configuring it to run their new website. This time, I joined a Zoom call so I could talk them through any problems and explain what each setting meant. We had the new website configured in just a few minutes.
The part of the transfer process I was least looking forward to was repointing their domain name. Luckily, their registrar’s control panel was easy to use, so we added the A record Netlify gave us and within a few hours the DNS was properly propagated.
The new Lockrose website is live and I’ve added their project to my portfolio.
Also completed last week were designs for the new Portico Investment website. Sadly, I’m not developing their website, although I don’t envy the developer who has the task of migrating their content. It’s being developed using WordPress by a team in India, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t enjoy writing code for the project.
To demonstrate how their new design should work, I used Eleventy in a Box to develop all the pages for the website. Hopefully, the developers will use my HTML, CSS, and Javascript when they develop the website using Wordpress. At least they will have a copy of the design they can refer to, and I’ll be keeping a close eye on what they produce.
To smooth the handover, I also created a new style guide which is a big improvement of the PDF version I was given and complained about a couple of weeks ago.
You can see my new design for Portico Investment here and I’ve added their project to my portfolio.
I now have one more week until we break for all of August and part of September. There’s little left to do in the studio, so I’ll be spending it packing for the trip and getting my car ready for a few thousand extra miles on the road.
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