Wk 8 – Color Theory & CSS Grid

This week we learned a bit about color theory and Coolors.co, a very neat site used to create color palettes. This was especially helpful when deciding on a color scheme for my midterm microsite.

Coolors.co

Additionally, anyone who searches ‘palette generator’ will find a myriad of tools at their disposal:

On Thursday we looked at the Grid layout. The Grid layout is used to format content on both a 2D horizontal and vertical axis. The great thing about the grid layout is it can be used in conjunction with the flexbox layout. I personally am enjoying the increased flexibility with CSS 3.

Lastly, my microsite has made some progress. I continued with styling the in-page navigation links and added my first slideshow gallery, which was exciting. Just a few more tweaks and the site should be good to go!

Journey Entry – Week 7

Totally learned something cool this week. I was able to get the carousel image on my microsite to work for my midterm. Of course, I couldn’t haven’t done it without Bill’s help since I didn’t know jquery. I was also able to the background image on my microsite which I haven’t been able to do before either. This was a cool new feature that I got to learn from my fellow class mate.

It’s interesting to read my classmates post, because I see I’m not the only one having confident issues. When I’m in class I understand it and able to get the HTML/CSS to work, but as soon as I’m at home, nothing seems to work. Total buzz kill….and then I’m pulling my hair out for hours trying to figure out what I did wrong. Hopefully, by the end the semester I will start to feel better about my skills.

I am a drooling idiot

Ok. I totally get the way we are going through material. The spoon feeding is fine with me, I have no problem being coddled. its nice.

Unfortunately, when I go home and look at my notes and computer I feel completely overwhelmed. I stare at the screen and go DUUUUUUUHHHH.

I did go out to the site and took a quick tour over the weekend. took some snap shots on my phone and sat down and tried to make it work on my computer and simply got it into a tangle.

I tried recoding the sample project, and copying code from the photo example, and made it look like stupid.

Then I cried.

Its like I am being gently encouraged to run towards my goals, and my argument is that I just learned how to crawl. I know when I get some stuff done I will feel awesome, but right now I feel like an idiot.

I am NOT looking forward to the deadline screening towards me. I have no idea if I can finish this in time.