About Jon
Jon started his career in Za reviews shortly after his graduation from the University of Georgia in 2016. Media and other critics began to take notice of his reviews as Jon embarked on his year-long world race. While abroad, Jon tasted slices of Za from around the world and made a striking choice: he divided his grading scale in two. As he continued to establish his international and American Za grading scales, many gained an appreciation for the diverse offerings of American pizzerias.
Jon’s Reviews cover multiple countries, continents, and cities. You may be wondering when he had time to do all that traveling. The answer comes in two parts. Firstly, these reviews are from a collection that began years ago, with new reviews being created anywhere from a month apart to over a year apart. Secondly, Jon participated in the World Race, a non-profit organization which funds pizza taste-testers-… We’re just kidding. The World Race is indeed a non-profit, but rather than pizza taste-testers, it sends Christian missionaries across the world to help uplift developing communities through volunteer work.
About the Website (the Reflection)
This website uses the theme “Coach Mentor”, and the plugin “Superb Addons”, and it was a lot of fun to create! At first, I faced a variety of issues, mainly stemming from not knowing how to manipulate this theme. Once I became more familiar with it, and with WordPress, building the website started to go a lot more smoothly. I faced repeated issues with using custom CSS to change fonts, though. As you’ll be able to see on the title of the first page, the code exists that should change that font, but it will not work. During some trouble-shooting attempts, I was able to make the font change… just not to the font I was trying to switch it to. Some of the details I was especially proud of though, were the maps on my built-out blog posts. I liked how it really helped demonstrate how many unique places Jon has reviewed pizza.
Overall, I’m pretty happy with the visual design of the website, as I feel like I managed to subtly include “pizza-esque” colors without making the site too glaringly pizza-toned. I wish I had better-quality photos to work from, but I’m glad I ended up sticking with the stills from his reviews. I feel like it adds more character and personality than if I had replaced them with Unsplash images of pizza. I was excited when I felt I finally cracked the code of the theme editor, using it to add the “Read More” links at the bottom of the blog excerpts.
The more built-out articles are the first four, including Kathmandu Roadhouse, Hotel Dusseldorf, Lingua de Foco, and Pizza Social. My custom CSS was used to change the font color and type on the main title page, as well as to change the color of the preview text for the posts.