Dorkinians Website

A sports stats site for displaying performance data for Dorkinians FC players and teams, my local football club which I play for. What initially started as an Excel spreadsheet with stats posted on our club WhatsApp each week was the perfect opportunity for me to try and develop into my first real public website. I even wrote a Dev article explaining how I built the stats site.

This project taught me several things:
- Retrospectively taught me the importance of components for reusability for long term maintainability. All of this project was built within a single HTML and JavaScript file (and CSS) before I knew how to work properly with components, meaning everything is copied out and manually edited over and over again, making maintenance a nightmare
- Reviewing the speed of the website through analysis tools helped me learn I need to reduce the number of HTML elements in the future by being smarter and more efficient in components
- Taught me that parsing a CSV using the method I used is too slow for large amounts of data, especially when the data continues growing. The project needs to be rebuilt faster with a new method
- Allowed me to learn how to work with SVG files used as the images on the TOTW page
- Helped me creatively come up with ideas to keep users engaged whilst data was loading, leading to the various random humorous quotes I have appearing on the main loading screen

All of the above led me to begin work on Dorkinians Website V3 to overcome the problems listed above.