Goalizr Sneak Peek

Goalizr Frontend

There's nothing like a deadline to push you through late nights working on a project. Today was presentation day, so those of us with personal projects have been putting in a lot of time over the last few weeks to get them ready for today. Although I've got three more weeks to work on it, I still wanted to get it pretty good shape for today.

So far, I've got the frontend website at a good stopping point for now. For the remaining three weeks I'm going to focus on finishing out the backend, along with implementing user authentication so the site will allow users to create their own sets of goals, activities and such. Here's what I have so far:

Dashboard > Goals Page

This page shows all the goals, with data populating from the database for each goal. You can create new goals, edit, or delete goals as you wish. On this page I have a working search function which allows you to search through goals by the title or motivation, and a sort feature that allows you to view goals that are ending soonest, or latest. There's also working pagination that limits the number of goals per page.

Some of these things were trickier than I thought they would be coming from more of a plug-and-play background such as WordPress. But the payoff for this trickiness is more power and flexibility. And, not to mention that I'm learning how to build things from scratch and not depending solely on plugins to add functionality to a website.

Dashboard Main Page

Other pages for Activities and Emotions are working, similar to the Goals page, but the main Dashboard for the backend is still pretty much in prototype. The data for the charts is all hard coded in for now, but hopefully by the time I finish up here at camp, I'll have a solid beta version ready to go live.

Here's the development technology I've used so far:

ASP.NET, MVC5, C#, Razor, LINQ, Entity Framework 6, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Team Foundation Server, Bootstrap 3