April 2025
This website was created as the final team project for the Web Design & Development (WDD) course at Howest. Developed collaboratively from scratch, the project showcases our collective ability to plan, design, and build a modern web application while delivering a polished, professional web experience.
The primary hurdle was executing a full-scale web project in a team environment while managing a growing codebase. We needed to ensure absolute environment consistency across all developer machines, maintain scalable styling, and build a highly structured, flexible content system that remained easy to update.
We built the foundation using Craft CMS, utilizing its flexible content structure and its Twig templating engine for organized template inheritance and reusable components. The frontend development was driven by Vite for lightning-fast asset bundling and hot module replacement, while the styling was engineered using modular, scalable SCSS. To guarantee seamless teamwork, we collaborated using Git for version control and deployed DDEV (Docker-powered) to containerize our identical development environments, completely eliminating PHP and MySQL dependency conflicts.
The project successfully demonstrates our ability to work as an agile team, bridging comprehensive planning and wireframing with robust engineering. By implementing standard industry tooling, we delivered a maintainable, optimized full-stack application that solves real-world development and content management challenges.