This project was an upgraded portfolio for a local artist with a wide and diverse portfolio ranging from fine art to graphic design to jazz vocals. The portfolio was a challenge trying to organize the wide array of art types in a way that made sense and was easy to navigate.

Other learning experiences that happened during this project were getting to use a few new tools that I was unaccustomed to. My go-to taskrunner is usually Grunt, but with this project I decided to try out Gulp as an alternative, since its syntax follows Node conventions, and I had heard some reviews that it's faster and easier to set up. Before I had been using a template Grunt file a lot of configuration done out of the box, but with this project, I decided to start from scratch and understand the process of configuring a taskrunner from the beginning. It was an enjoyable process, and Gulp makes things easy since it only has several methods available to it that can be used flexibly. Build times were a lot faster than the Grunt setups I had been using, but this could have been due to a number of other factors.

With this project I also decided to go with Less as my CSS preprocessor because I was working from a Bootstrap template that already had Less files that came with it. I'm normally accustomed to using Sass as a pre-processor. All-in-all, the two felt very similar and had good support/documentation, so there was not much new to learn other than making sure I had the right Gulp plugins.