As we round the far turn into the home stretch our final project is foremost on our minds, the finish line, and all the preparations and learning we have put into this second course in web development.
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Responsive Design
Mobile First is our mantra. How we arrive at the goal of adaptation to the many viewports in the firmament is our struggle as we enter the home stretch.
Read more: Responsive DesignOver the last two weeks we studied the building blocks of responsive design, which is intimately tied to positioning. The three main tools for positioning are grid, flexbox and the relationship of relative and absolute positioning. We had many fine tutorials and practice sessions with a number of websites.
We also worked on or Portal Page and our mid-term design. The many movements of our sixteen week symphony will culminate in the crescendo of our final project where we will employ the many tools we have studied so far.
I find myself circling back often through the weeks to listen again to the tutorials to refresh the information in my mind and apply it to our work. Due to family circumstances another considerable challenge for me is budgeting time. I’m playing catchup, but I haven’t given up.
Turning Designs into Code
In the last two weeks we have been involved in visually designing websites and then practicing various code approaches implementing these designs. For example, along with visually designing our mid-term project website, we practiced various approaches in HTML and CSS.
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With the concentration on the tools of spacial design, we worked with positioning, floats, flexbox and grids.
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This is a summary of our topics of concentration for weeks three and four in Intermediate Web Design.
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Glad to be here learning more web development. I have a number of pages and sites to refurbish and upgrade with contemporary code and styles, maybe some script. Looking forward to it.
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