Atelier 4

This website was created as the final project for the Web Design & Development (WDD) course at Howest. Developed collaboratively by our team, the project showcases our ability to plan, design, and build a modern web application from scratch.

The site demonstrates our skills in both front-end and back-end development. We used Craft CMS as the foundation, allowing us to create a flexible content structure and a user-friendly admin panel for content management. Our team collaborated using Git for version control, ensuring smooth teamwork and code integration.

The project involved everything from initial planning and wireframing to implementation and deployment. It demonstrates our ability to work as a team, solve real-world problems, and deliver a polished, professional web experience.

Craft CMS uses Twig as its templating engine, which helped us keep our templates organized and easy to maintain. With features like template inheritance and reusable components, we could build pages quickly and ensure consistency across the site.

For our stylesheets, we used SCSS, allowing us to write modular, reusable, and scalable CSS. Our codebase stayed clean and easy to update, even as the project grew.

Vite was our tool of choice for front-end development, providing lightning-fast hot module replacement during development and optimized asset bundling for production.

To keep our development environments consistent, we used DDEV, which leverages Docker containers so every team member works with the same versions of PHP, MySQL, and other dependencies. This eliminated “it works on my machine” problems and made onboarding new team members a breeze.