For me there was a lot of cool new information these last couple of weeks. I’ve really enjoyed watching the last few projects come together, even though I feel like any one of them could have used as much time as I could spare.
It seems like a lot of these new skills will just require time and practice to really get to understand the pros and cons of each.
We started creating our first HTML page and CSS styling and it has been fun and challenging to put into practice some of the tags we have recently learned. Its interesting to discover the extra ways certain tags can be implemented. For example the <ul> tag for unordered list is great for creating navigation bars. Another tag that I am using a lot more then I expected is the <div> container to group certain sections together for styling. I tried out the <aside> tag for the first time and I thought it was a pretty cool way to add in little bits of side information.
I also feel like I’ve learned a bit about choosing and creating the right hook in HTML for CSS styling. For example some of the differences between “ID” and “class” attributes. I like how you can apply class attributes to any number of elements and that ID attributes are like an internal url link. “ID” tops “class” in specificity and even though you can use either one to apply specific styling to an element each one is better for a certain purpose.