{"id":1485,"date":"2021-12-04T18:49:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T02:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/?post_type=web&#038;p=1485"},"modified":"2022-01-26T21:41:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T05:41:45","slug":"sled-style-app","status":"publish","type":"web","link":"https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/web\/sled-style-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Sled Style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sledstyle.com\">Sled Style<\/a> is a website design, development and hosting project for a Squamish company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project was within their budget and they got an amazing response. They were thoroughly satisfied.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"clients-requirements\">Client&#8217;s requirements<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>My clients wanted to build a website for &#8220;The World\u2019s First Professional Mountain Snowmobile Film Competition.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Snowmobiling professionals would film a video and these videos would be featured on SledStyle.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Viewers would watch these videos and vote. They can also leave a comment using their Facebook account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event ran from Nov. 15 to Dec. 1, 2021, where the athlete with the most votes would receive a $5,000 cash prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most complicated components:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Voting system<\/li><li>Sign-up, user login and email verification<\/li><li>Integrating Vimeo videos<\/li><li>Competition closing mechanics<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"845\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sledstyle-full-screen-845x1024.jpg\" alt=\"sled style snowmobile competition screen shot\" class=\"wp-image-1487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sledstyle-full-screen-845x1024.jpg 845w, https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sledstyle-full-screen-536x650.jpg 536w, https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sledstyle-full-screen-768x931.jpg 768w, https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sledstyle-full-screen-1267x1536.jpg 1267w, https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sledstyle-full-screen-1690x2048.jpg 1690w, https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sledstyle-full-screen-1200x1454.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sledstyle-full-screen.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 845px) 100vw, 845px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"design\">Design<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The design of the page had to reflect my client&#8217;s main page with its greyscale colour scheme and fonts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most important design element is the athletes&#8217; portraits which have their backgrounds removed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is that these are not full-body portraits, so there be a unsightly line at the bottom of the image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to ensure the athletes &#8220;blended&#8221; into the page, I added a snow dust layer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/smoke-screen-layer-demonstration-1024x412.jpg\" alt=\"smoke screen layer demonstration\" class=\"wp-image-1488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/smoke-screen-layer-demonstration-1024x412.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/smoke-screen-layer-demonstration-650x262.jpg 650w, https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/smoke-screen-layer-demonstration-768x309.jpg 768w, https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/smoke-screen-layer-demonstration-1200x483.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/smoke-screen-layer-demonstration.jpg 1376w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Above is a demonstration on grey, which allows you to see how the snow dust layer works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On white, it looks like a natural blend of a portrait into the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-1024x514.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-1024x514.png 1024w, https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-650x326.png 650w, https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-768x386.png 768w, https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image.png 1123w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"development\">Development<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Stack: NextJS, Strapi, AWS Lightsail, Elastic Email<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made the decision to use Strapi as Sled Style&#8217;s content management system (CMS) because it allows my clients to make their own modifications  to the content and also made it easy for me to create a voting system and a user authentication system.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"user-authentication-voting-mechanism\">User authentication, voting mechanism<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"502\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1491\"\/><figcaption>Login pop up.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In order for users to vote, they needed to create an account, verify their email address and then vote. This helps reduce voter fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once a user has registered, they will get an email, as below,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"806\" height=\"741\" src=\"https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-3.png 806w, https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-3-650x598.png 650w, https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-3-768x706.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><figcaption>Every user will receive a confirmation email.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to send those emails, I used Elastic Email&#8217;s SMTP server. They were fantastic because they were well priced and easy to integrate into Strapi (with nodemailer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the user is confirmed, they can then vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"495\" height=\"722\" src=\"https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-4.png 495w, https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-4-446x650.png 446w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><figcaption>Once a user has confirmed their email, they can then vote for their favourite athlete.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"competition-closure-mechanism\">Competition closure mechanism<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"341\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1490\"\/><figcaption>Winner badge that can be controlled by my clients<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition closed at 4pm on Dec. 1, 2021. when they had an Instagram livestream where they announced the winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"103\" src=\"https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1494\"\/><figcaption>Clients control what viewers saw based on whether this switch was &#8220;ON&#8221; or &#8220;OFF&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to ensure they could close the competition themselves, I programmed a switch into Strapi which would change the text on the web page that changes the main text as well as display a &#8220;Winner&#8221; button on the person with most votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CW9g7Ehgtej\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CW9g7Ehgtej\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; 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font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CW9g7Ehgtej\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Alpine Sled Style (@alpinesledstyle)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"hosting-strapinextjs-on-aws\">Hosting Strapi\/NextJS on AWS<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>I chose to use AWS Lightsail so that I could control the monthly hosting costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strapi and NextJS were easy to work with using the NodeJS image provided by AWS, and they were automatically restarted using the PM2 process manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You only need to modify Strapi&#8217;s default address to be at \/api rather than port 1337. This is based on a Strapi 3.6.5 installation. You also need to reconfigure the Apache virtual host. <a href=\"https:\/\/xyzcreativeworks.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/01\/guide-to-putting-strapi-behind-https\/\">Here&#8217;s a guide.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"results\">Results<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>I believe I have chosen the right tools to build this app because the project fell within budget and my clients were able to administer the website themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the success of this year, my clients will want to do another next year and I think it will implement some newer features like multiple votes, e-commerce functionality and maybe more athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/sledstyle.com\">click here to visit sled style<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block\"><div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1638661828544\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">FAQ: Strapi vs Firebase<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">At the start of the project, I had to choose between Strapi or Firebase.<br\/><br\/>I chose Strapi because it was much more complete. 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