So I decided to build this site for Koze Place right? Just wanted a simple spot online where folks could see opening hours and menu stuff. Started by sketching on napkins at my kitchen table – real professional huh? Scribbled boxes for pictures and arrows where buttons should go. Coffee stains made it look kinda artsy though.
Tool Mess
First grabbed some drag-n-drop website maker. Looked easy-peasy with those pre-made blocks. Until I tried moving the damn coffee cup icon three pixels left. Thing kept snapping back like a rubber band! Spent three hours fighting animated hamburger menus that looked like they were having seizures. Deleted the whole project before lunch.
Switched to coding raw HTML like some caveman. Wrote basic structure with pencil on printer paper before touching keyboard:
- Big header photo up top
- Dumb paragraph about cozy vibes
- Address box with tiny map thingy
- Gallery section showing fuzzy blankets
Monday Night Disaster
Thought adding a calendar would be smart. Found some free code snippet online – looked simple enough. Pasted it in and suddenly my test page showed 1970 dates everywhere. Like bruh I wasn’t even born then! Turns out the timezone settings were speaking moon language. Wasted Tuesday yelling at screen until midnight.
Gallery images kept stretching like old gym shorts. Photos of wooden tables looked like funhouse mirrors. Changed aspect ratios seventeen times before saying screw it and made all thumbnails squares. Who cares if plates look rhombus-shaped right?
The Miracle
Finished it Thursday 4AM looking like roadkill. Threw on beige background that matches coffee stains. Added social media icons that blink if you stare too long. Realized I forgot contact forms so just slapped my public email in Comic Sans. Done means done.
Now it exists. Loads slow on phones. Header picture crops weird in Firefox. Calendar still shows wrong leap years sometimes. But hey – if grandma can find the opening hours without calling me? That’s a damn win.
