Lessons Learned

• One downside of using the CSS/HTML/JavaScript from a WordPress theme is that the theme was very detailed, including pages with lengthy code and minor variations throughout. As a result, a few bits of code were not easy to abstract into individual code blocks. I ended up abstracting less code than I would have preferred, causing the code to be less "clean."
• Another downside of using the CSS/HTML/JavaScript from a WordPress theme is that many of the files I started out with were accessed via links to the theme author's site. I methodically copied these files into my website files and reconfigured the paths so that my site would not be dependent upon the author's site to properly render.
• When I first saw the theme demo, I loved the design. However, having not looked at the website I created for some time, when I looked again, I felt that the design is too dark. Perhaps I will find or make other design options to choose from and do user testing.