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Mandy's Simple Blog Post Adventure

by Mandy Gooch

20 Feb 2014

Here is my blog: http://silshack-agooch.herokuapp.com/. It isn't much, but it's functional.

As for my process, I can honestly say I was doing very well until getting to the ./setupenv1.sh portion of the exercise. Since it was busted, I was unable to finish my assignment in class. This meant I had to pick up from where I left off, but I ran into more issues when Nitrous kept giving me errors.

I decided to just scrap everything and start over, because it was getting frustrating. After this, my code worked perfectly and I was able to push everything through to the heroku master.

I will freely admit that it took me a bit to figure out where to go from there. I went into the simple.py file, but was not sure what I was supposed to do. Anyway, I realized at some point that I needed to checkout my actual app page. I went there and added the /admin to the URL to log in.

The interface is really simple, so it was pretty easy to figure out. I created a basic post and used the drag and drop feature to add a picture that was sitting on my work computer.

As for the bonus section, well, I didn't really want to mess up the app's layout too badly, so all I did was edit some of the colors in the layout.css file. I also added an image to the 404 template that I found on Google. Nothing too big, but it was nice to see the edits reflected in my page after pushing them through Nitrous.

Note: I did have an issue at one point when editing. I changed some colors to the CSS layout page and pushed it through. When I went back to my blog the image of my dog was no longer visible. I'm not sure why this happened and couldn't find anything in my code, so I just deleted the post and created another one.

I got my color codes here: http://www.huecode.com/

Here is the 404 image:

404 Image

Mandy is a second year MSLS student. She is from Virginia and has a background in Asian Studies. Currently she works as a Research Data Coordinator at The Odum Institute at UNC. Find Mandy Gooch on Twitter, Github, and on the web.
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