ArtMarket: My first e-commerce website
My cohort’s sixteen week bootcamp will end soon and I already know that I will miss my instructor’s deeply emotional dubstep music. It will be difficult to push on without that source of motivation and strength beckoning my return from lunch but as the Japanese say, I will “ganbatte ne” or hang in there! I have learned so much from these last fourteen weeks and I was able to apply my knowledge with JavaScript, CSS, and React/Redux toward building my first e-commerce web application.
ArtMarket, the fictional company that my e-commerce web app is based on, is meant to be something like Artsy.net rather than Etsy. A place for professional high-end artists to sell their work to collectors. At it’s current iteration, it can display artworks with the ability to add it to a cart utilizing Redux. In time, with the help of Redux, I will be able to scale the project to become more like the professional grade e-commerce websites like the aforementioned Artsy.net.
Stylistically I approached the project with the intention of giving ArtMarket a more creative and unique aesthetic especially compared to corporate web applications that, on a styling standpoint, can be stale and uninspired. I applied a sleek, minimalist design, using only yellow, red, black, and white to create stark contrasts that gives some life and pop to the elements. My div containers possess the black that makes up the background of the application bordered by yellow and red.
It is still a project in it’s infancy but I hope to flesh out the functionality in time and make it something worthy of including in my portfolio.
