Healing Veterans
Classification
Website Design
Technology + Tools
HTML & CSS
Objective
Identify an issue of personal importance
and develop a web based solution that
brings awareness to the issue.
Overview
Healing Veterans was a concept inspired by my own experiences dealing with injury, during
my time in service. For this project, I had
the advantage of bringing firsthand insight
of injury and the healing process to my own research and development.
More often than not, injuries and ailments
are treated with a number of prescription
drugs. After recovery though, service-members
and veterans often face issues of prescription
dependencies, many of which have detrimental side effects.
The website I developed ultimately focused
on veterans and explored the idea of having
medical marijuana be a treatment option, opposed to never-ending pill prescriptions.
The site also identified specific ailments
that could benefit the most from medical marijuana treatments. Lastly, examples of
various cultures using marijuana medicinally
was highlighted. The historical research
influenced the layout and visuals of my site. Mimicking the idea of historical timelines,
I designed the site to function by horizontal scrolling and utilized older imagery assets
to give a dated feel.
Being one of my earliest experiences with developing websites, this project served as a great introduction and practice of HTML & CSS.