Week 2 introduced a world of information effectively expanding my technical perspective and perception of HTML and CSS.
It was an eye-opening week revealing an entire culture around web development, specifically HTML markup and CSS. Prior to this week, I only “saw” the languages, their function, and their purpose leading to a desired result. The two articles we read (https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2019/01/30/html-css-and-our-vanishing-industry-entry-points/, and “https://css-tricks.com/document-outline-dilemma/” from week one) blew open my superficial perception and allowed me to obtain a more intimate comprehension of the character of both languages.
I also gained a deeper understanding relating to purpose. I liken it to learning to spell and how to create a sentence transitioning to learning how to compose a comprehensive essay. This added considerably more weight to what I will be considering when “composing” with HTML and CSS, and I don’t think there can be any “going back”. I will say that while I always appreciate being educated/informed, I think I’ll keep the whole “child-like” magical aspect of coding that drew me to it in the first place; the irresistible invitation to create and design at the same time is the stuff all great addictions are made of and I don’t want to lose that cotton candy.
The lecture on “CSS Reset” vs “CSS Normalize” was a new revelation for me in coding for web development and is certainly going to enhance my results and produce a different coding experience for me concerning how I style with CSS. Do I want to style from scratch? Is that the easier softer way? Or take my chances with the CSS Normalize, scrapping my way to victory? This is going to spice things up a bit I think and I’m looking forward to my first experience working with these tools. In two weeks, I have already learned volumes.
Oh yeah. I learned that there is no need to use HTML tags to do the job of CSS, and that frankly, it’s probably a redundant use of time. Something else I did not know: the correct document format of an HTML document means that tags such as <meta charset= “UTF-8”> and <title>, for example, should also be indented appropriately just like all other tags/elements. I learned that I have a lot to learn 🙂 .
