RushClan.tv

Who was this site for?

This website is for the people of Rush Clan, a YouTube Call of Duty team with 10,000 subscribers. They needed a site that could manage their YouTube uploads, members, and other information. They also needed a website that would appeal to their current fanbase and attract new viewers.

What did I learn?

I believe I became a better UI designer from this project. I spent days upon days in Adobe XD constantly changing my designs. A lot of my time was spent visiting Awwwards.com in search of inspiration. This was a difficult challenge since there are not many gaming team websites and of those that exist, not many were visually appealing. From all my research I feel I've grown a more keen eye for design.

I've used the .htaccess document before but never to this extent. I used the Rewrite and Expire modules throughout this project. The Rewrite module was used so members could have their own URLs, rushclan.tv/username, for example. In addition, I used it for changing the URLs of various pages. While in the past, I would create an index.php inside a directory. In the future, I'll use the RewriteRule for future naming scenarios. I used the Expire modules to tell the browser when certain files should or should not be refreshed. This helps load time drastically.

I had some knowledge of how SSL worked but up until this website, I have never implemented it. I added one last RewriteRule besides the mentioned above. Any user that tries to connect to HTTP will be redirected to HTTPS.

What did I use?

Some luck. Some skill. A little google here and there. A lot of Atom, Adobe XD and Blisk. The site is half hand-written HTML content and half PHP scripts served by SQL queries. If I work on the site again I'll more than likely migrate to more PHP & SQL. A few JavaScript and JQuery files power some site functionality. I made several large changes to my CSS late in the project so I wish I would've used SASS.