Welcome to my course project directory/landing/portal page!

The following projects have been created as a way to explore front-end Web Design and development.

MAIN COURSE PROJECTS

• My First Page

  For our First Page assignment, we entered Dreamweaver for the very first time. This was my very first exposure to the program. As this was our first project, we learned how to create index.html files to code our sites into and navigate Adobe Dreamweaver. Our task at hand was making a page that included a selfie, a basic introduction to ourselves, and 3 things we looked forward to learning in the class. We were taught what basic tags could be used and how to use them, for example we learned about basic {p} (paragraph) and {h1} (heading size 1) tags for simple communication and visual hierarchy, as well as how {strong} and {em} tags could be used to elaborate and further communicate emotions within our text. We also changed the colors of text and typefaces with internal CSS. With this, we also leanrned how to transfer our files/upload our site into the server with the FTP client, Filezilla for the first time.

• Squint Studio Build Along

  This project span over a few weeks and we documented this process in a powerpoint with notes on our learning and screenshots of our progress. Over the course of this process, we learned so many new tools, tags, and ways of coding our sites. We were introduced to adding multiple pages within a website, how to create and use external CSS with selectors and their properties, and how to properly link items within a site. This linking included email links, links to separate pages, and linking in our external CSS. With the external CSS, we learned how much of a better process it is for site building rather than internal CSS which has very low quality and simple customization. External CSS can be created as its own separate document, and each part of the HTML document can be aesthetically changed by creating selectors and changing their properties, like the margins or text size, for example. We followed tutorials on how to create this site with instruction from our professor, whilest learning new tools along the way that can help us with future projects.