Project Overview

I had the opportunity to collaborate with a company that won the public bid to develop the official app for the municipality of Ragusa, my hometown. This project was a significant step in my career as it involved creating a native app distributed on both the Apple and Google stores 📱.

You can learn more about the beauty of Ragusa here.

Role and Responsibilities 💻

The company utilized an enterprise subscription with Goodbarber, a CMS designed for app development. My primary responsibility was to implement the responsive design for the homepage using plain HTML and CSS, as the company provided the design specifications. Although I was used to work with Bootstrap to easily style webpages, this project required me to build everything from scratch ✨.

Challenges and Innovations 🚀

We aimed to automatically publish news from the official municipality of Ragusa's website onto the app. However, there was no existing integration between the two systems. I saw this as a challenge and an opportunity for innovation. I developed a PHP RSS feed to bridge the gap between the systems, successfully linking them 🔗. This solution enhanced the app's capabilities by ensuring that news updates were automatically published, keeping the app's content fresh and relevant 📰.

Learning and Growth 💪

This experience was incredibly enriching, as it allowed me to deepen my understanding of CSS commands, improve my skills in responsive web design, and tackle a complex integration problem. Despite the challenges of stepping out of my comfort zone, I successfully delivered a fully functional and aesthetically pleasing homepage that adhered to the design specifications and provided a seamless user experience 🎉.