La Casa del Sorriso

Date: 2018-06-05

Goal of this project is to provide a full-working website for an imaginary medical centre called “La Casa del Sorriso”. This website will let users to know more on the staff of the centre, the locations in which it operates and the services it supplies.

I made this website two years ago together with two my collagues for the course of “Hypermedia Applications”.

The website is still hosted on Heroku. You can find it here.

Client side languages used

For this project the following client side languages have been used:

• HTML5
• CSS
• JavaScript

Backend

The backend uses Node.js. It exposes a REST API which can be used in the webpages to retrieve data from the database. This database is created with knex, starting from JSON files.

Template used

No template has been used for this project: all the contents (except for pics) are been made exclusively for this website.

External vendors scripts/plugins

For this project the following external plugins have been used:

• Bootstrap4
• jQuery
• FontAwesome
• Google Maps plugin

Main problems faced

During this work, these are the main problems we had to face:

• Height: Trying to set the height of every content in the most rational way, trying to avoid “height: 42px” has been one of the most recurrent problem during this work.
• Banners and background: We tried to provide a coherent and good-looking set of background and banners for this website. Adapting them using the technologies of html and css has not been easy.
• Mobile: building the mobile website is not so difficult given the power of Boostrap: adapting all the contents to avoid glitches has been a bigger source of problems.