Category: Learning Log

Micro Site, grids & flips

Never heard the words”Micro Site” until I saw the mid-term. Google it and found that “A Microsite is a website, distinct and separate from an organization’s main site, that delivers more focused, relevant content about a specific topic or to a targeted audience or even just requiring a defined action. ” per Microsite.

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Journey Entry – Week 6

I felt better with my confidence in coding this week. I felt like more of it sunk in this week and I was able to make some sense of the codes and why they were doing what they were doing. I still have doubts when it comes to my coding ability though. Hopefully, I won’t feel this way by the end of the semester.

It was cool learning how to do the flipping tile trick. I really liked it, so I decided to incorporate it into my midterm project.

Wk 7 – Midterm & Audio Space

This week we learned . . .

This week we were introduced to our midterm project and prompted to create a proposal for what type of site it would be for. I chose to make a ‘microsite’ for a faux catering company that serves “meat & potato” style food and alcohol. The site’s demo would be those aged 21+.

Additionally this Thursday we practiced in-class building a site using Grid layout. Grid layout is useful and better for building content with two or more rows/columns. Flexbox is ideally used and designed for content in only one row/column. The site included a CSS animation that flipped a card-image over when the mouse cursor hovered over it. This was cool, seeing how it needed no JS, but ran into problems on mobile. This was because a mouse hover is not the same a finger tap on a phone. To fix this, JS could be used.

some random thoughts

1) can we have room open early? I would love some time to work before class and ask questions. Last week class was open early, made me kick myself as i was not prepared to take advantage of that rare time when fewer people are asking questions.

2) I think I have refrigerator amnesia; well in the fact that when I’m in class I can do stuff but when i go home I cant seem to recall anything. I feel like a drooling idiot last week.

I can recall a friend of mine who had surgery and was also going to grad school AND also worked full time. She told me that when she was home she was going to do SO MUCH homework. In reality she admitted later that she did nothing at all but heal from surgery.

I am not as clever or hard working as she is, but feel a lot like she did. I have to try harder.