This past week, I learned a few lessons that I’ve previously known about, but I have seem to have forgotten for the moment and needed reminding.
I find that building these pre-made websites and coding them is really fun. To just work off a design on Photoshop and to test the coding by doing it myself is a fun, challenging way of getting to know CSS at a higher level. I think if I had one to do each week, or two per week, my CSS knowledge would be so much better.
I almost want to say that I actually like the media queries *knock on wood*. The Sacramento Writer’s Group site layouts using responsive design has been driving me nuts. Its a fantastic test. Its also hard and frustrating. By the look of it, it seems that I have accomplished doing the different layouts for the SWG sites for tablet and laptop on my own. Odds are I used outdated and used rules that are not good practice for CSS, but I tried.
And this brings me to the most nerve wracking thing. No matter how often you practice or how knowledgeable you are with HTML or CSS, you are bound to get stuck somewhere and inevitably discover that you’ve missed the smallest of mistakes, such as missing a } or a : or putting “padding-top” verses “top-padding.” What is worse, is when you have done your midterm website and somehow the different versions you have all get saved into the oldest version… File management should be the very fundamental things in web design that you do.not.mess.up. I’m still trying to recover all I did. So, now, I’ve learned my lesson and have become paranoid in the process.