Portfolio: Cooking with Alicia
What the client wanted
This is the first website that I ever created and was an entrepreneurial venture to try to capitalize on my love of cooking and entertaining. It was a subscription-based cooking website.
I originally consulted a "friend in the biz" about developing this site for me, and was told that the cost would be "in the five figures". I didn't have that kind of money to spend, so I decided to try it on my own, given that I had a solid programming background. In the end, I understood why they quoted what they did!
This is not my best-looking site, but it has a whole lot going on in the background: databases and a lot of programming to store and manage the recipes as well as the user accounts.
What I did
- Designed the look and feel
- Designed the databases
- Programmed the whole back-end for the content management
- Programmed a user-authentication module
- Designed and programmed forms
- Designed and programmed reporting modules for the admins of the site
- Designed and programmed an automatic updating system for the weekly "features" and "meal plans"
- Obtained and implemented the SSL
Geek stuff
Hop on over to my geek stuff page if you want to know what any of this stuff means.
- Dynamic site
- ColdFusion
- MySQL databases
- Table-based layout (I did not know CSS yet!)
- eCommerce: custom coding
- Content management system
- Forms
- Account creation and user authentication