finished the project

Alhamdulillah, the implementation phase for the team project (e-commerce website) has finished. I can finally relax, although i still have four more assignments to do including the demonstration and project closing of the website.

Working in a team is definitely not an easy thing to do. It’s good that we could assign the tasks to each member, so less time, less work. But it becomes so frustrating when other members have a very little knowledge on those tasks. It's not that I don't trust them, but I don't feel satisfy with the results. It makes me realize that somehow I'm a perfectionist. I want everything to be neat, clean, and organized. Even for a very small thing. It's not good at all, especially in this situation.

I was the one who design the website (and the coding too!). Other members helped me entering the data and the contents of the site into the templates that I've provided. So I would expect them to use notepad to keep the look of the site consistent (using the same style of course). But unfortunately, they relied so much on FrontPage! God knows how freak I'm when looking at those codes that are made / modified in FrontPage. It makes me headache! FrontPage puts those junk and unnecessary codes which make the entire file looks absolutely messed!! It’s the most stupid program that doesn’t know XHTML! (XHTML is required for the web by the way)

The hardest part was definitely PHP! I've never used it before. Thank God the tutors were so kind and helpful. I really appreciate what they have done for us. Anyway, the website needs to have features that allow users to login, logout, browse and add the products to the shopping cart, and finally make the transaction. I was totally stuck in shopping cart. It makes me really crazy. Even the tutors were confused. It only allows us to add only ONE product into the cart, not more than that. At the very end, I gave up! That's the most stupid thing I've ever done in my life! I hate giving up!!

The last 15 minutes before the submission closed almost killed me with a heart attack! For some reasons (maybe the file was too big!), we couldn't upload the entire zipped file into the online submission! Ned — our tutor — helped us with the problem. He divided the file into three separate zip files. He worked really really fast! Haha… But then, we could only submit one file, coz there was no button to add another file. So Julie, the other tutor, copies the files into her USB… Oh, thank God!!! We were very fortunate. There was one team who didn't get a chance to submit their files; it was due last Friday at 5 pm *very shaaaarp!!!*