AAD086 SP19 – Page 8 – Learning Journal

Week 4

This week was full of floats, flex, and I guess you could say fun..

As a designer, I really like to think outside the box and do stuff that no one else is willing to try, or just haven’t yet. Usually, its just me being over zealous. Nevertheless, when it comes to using block elements and making a page that’s pretty and organized, utilizing floats and flexbox creates a panic-less me.

Week 4 Reflection

So were already in the fourth week in school and diving deeper into the subjects of HTML and CSS.

Week 4 – Fun with Floats and Flexbox

I remember how I struggled with floats when taking the Intro to Web Design class. This topic was one of the most confusing ones to me. However…

Flex and Float

Do you feel like to float on a river? Not at all the times. When design web pages with float elements such as float left or float right, it is kind of hard. Could we float the elements to the top or wherever we’d like to? Hahaha. Only to the left or to the right.

Week 4, Go Flexbox!

After spending a lot of time trying to make the coffeeshop website look right with floats, I thought it would take a long time to make it look the same with flexbox. I was wrong…

Journal Entry – Week 4

I felt like I learned a lot this week. We covered floats and flexbox in CSS this week. We didn’t cover much of this when I took the beginning web design class. I feel like we covered so much material in such a short amount of time at the Art Institute. I feel like more of the information is soaking in this time around and I’m starting to understand what the code does when I code it into CSS.

Top Tips

Rachel Andrew’s article Getting Started With CSS Layout was a great overview of CSS. One section was on laying out grids with CSS which was new to me. It sounded like it is not responsive but could be good for visual data layout for specific devices.

Better Late than Never

Well, this week I learned….

Web fonts and Typography

When I was learning Adobe’s applications in AAD70, I gradually discovered that I had fallen for fonts.