The Album Archive

For an introductory coding class, we were instructed in groups to construct a working website on the topic of our choice using HTML, CSS, and PHP, using database software to build the back end. In a group of three, we decided to make our website an archive of fan-created album artwork that can be viewed and purchased. We had seen thousands of incredible unofficial album covers created by fans on sites like reddit, and wanted to create a platform where people could purchase prints of this undiscovered artwork. We began by creating wireframes for the visual design and collecting data on the album artwork to include in our database. We planned out all of our pages and which ones would have user forms. From there, we created the front end of the website using HTML and CSS while creating a database using MySQL. The most challenging part of this assignment was learning how to implement PHP in order for the forms to work–it took weeks of trial and error to finally get it functional. In the end, we had a working website which implemented user data into our database.