5 4 5 Day 1

Adam Moore
Aug 31, 2018 · 3 min read

I started Five4Five yesterday by creating a website that would help me crowdsource my daily inspiration from my peers at Parsons, friends, and family scattered all over the world. I’m surrounded by so many smart people every day. I thought it would make this project more interesting to involve as many of them as possible.

Initially I wanted to build a site that would allow people to send me their suggestions anonymously. After spending most of the day researching different ways to build a site with that function I came to the realization that I usually come to when building websites, what I initially wanted to do was going to be way beyond my current abilities. Everything utilized some combination of php, jquery, json, and a host of other languages. Unfortunately for me I have very little experience writing code for websites, and I have no experience with php, and json.

Making a compromise between my ambitions, aesthetics, and time constraints I decided to use an existing side I’d been working on as a springboard. The original site looked like this:

After changing the typeface to something much more readable. I also changed the javascript I was using so that the colors were something a little more friendly. I also wanted to make the feel of this site distinct from what I had already been working on. Frameworks are useful, but I wanted to make up for not being able to make the site function in the way I’d originally intended. The final site looks like this:

After loading it to my personal site http://adamoore.net, sending out an email to friends and family, sharing it on the MFADT slack channel, and texting the link to more friends I started receiving ideas within a few minutes! Very exciting. I won’t be posting any of the emails that I receive because I told everyone they would remain anonymous. I uploaded the code to my site around 12:40pm, going forward that is when I must finish the subsequent projects.

http://adamoore.net

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