By Wanda Molineros

Objective: This website provides advice to first time builders on how to build their home in Ireland from start to finish depending on a couple of criteria and options to consider. Considerations should be given to the following dependencies: Changing prices of materials, income, site owner or inheritance, mortgage, size, location, planning permission

Topics Based on Experience: Contractor or Direct labor, Manage expectations, Renting or living at home, plumbing for type of toilets and taps, consider dependencies

Details to consider: Mortage, Stages of Build, Type of home: Single story, Two story, 1.5 story, bedrooms, Kitchen, Living Areas, Utility, Bathrooms, Outdoor Finishings, Indoor Finishings, Garden, Gallery of previous experience

Frontend Overview: The frontend was built using HTML and CSS.

• The structure is designed in such a way to allow the user to view information on specific topics that are essentail to the build. An introductory message can be seen when the user first enters teh page. The main advice is added to the middle of the home page. The user can therefore go directly to the specific topics view in the center of the home page or scroll down and view topics as you move through the page.

• In the menu section, the user also has the option to view the experiene gallery and the cost link. The experience gallery shows pictures of some of the topics and advice discussed in the home page.The cost link shows how to use excel to manage the additional costs of a build.

• The home page will flow from the general advice to more specific topics section and additional information on planning permission link. Then the footer contains details to the Ireland self build Ireland group, pinterest (visualisation tool for the self build), Victoria plumbing details are also added as an affordable option for toilets, and the official Self Build website in Ireland.

• Experience Gallery Link: Experience Gallery
• Cost Link: Additional Cost excel images
• Planning Permission Link: Planning Permission
• Footer Links: Ireland Self Build Facebook Page, Pinterest page for self build visualisation, Victoria Plumbing page for affordable toilet essentials, Details to the official self build website, Information to all Ireland local County Councils

Citations include the following: Love Running Website,terminology from Selfbuild.ie website, Victoria plumbing site, facebook selfbuild page. In addition, all images are from Wanda Molineros' own personsal selfbuild.

Font Used: [Poppins ExtraLight 200(Google Fonts)] (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Poppins?query=poppins)

• Slimy Green: '#149429'
• Cultured: '#ECEFF0'
• Eeire Black: '#252525'
• Chocolate Web: '#D16908'
• Lincoln Green: '#064D0F'

Images Used All images used were from Wanda Molineros' self-build.

• Bathroom tiles
• Before roof level
• Excel Image 1
• Excel Image 2
• Excel Image 3
• Kitchen
• Map 1
• Map 2
• Map 3
• Map 4
• Map 5
• Plans
• Roof level photo
• Cover image for self build website
• Site notice image
• Underfloor heating image
• Block foundation 2
• Block foundation 1
• Flooring
• Foundation level

The following testing steps were executed:

1. Go to The W3C Markup Validation Service and add HTML code.
2. Identify "Errors" and "Warnings".
3. Correct each error and warning that is identified.
4. Go to The W3C Markup Validation Service and add CSS code.
5. Identify "Errors" and "Warnings".
6. Correct each error and warning that is identified.

HTML

• Duplicate end tags. The tags were removed to correct the error.
• Break elements after list elements. This was corrected by adding the break within the list element.

CSS

• font-weight with an invalid px number. This was corrected by deleting and coding "bold" in its place.

Step-By-Step

1. Go to Github "Ireland-Self-Build" repositry space.
2. Select "Settings" above "Go to file" button.
3. Scroll down to Github pages and select the "Check it out here!" link.
4. Select "main" branch.
5. Select "save" to deploy the published site details.

Ireland Self Build Website was created by Wanda Molineros. This page was last edited on 21 August 2022, at 09:50 (GMT).