These last two weeks have been very challenging for me. While I am learning that there is so much variety in creating a webpage layout, making images and text go into specific boxes, or arrangements.
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Floats, Flexbox, and Grids, what weeks 5 & 6 taught me.
I felt like Dorothy these last two weeks, being swept up in a tornado of floats, flexbox, and grid challenges. Watching the instructional videos, and then working along with the videos, worked for the most part. But something went akimbo when trying to put what I learned to the challenges.
Typography and Week Four Summary, Mark-up, & Styling.
I thought I was over typography, we broke up years ago when I went chasing after a new love, as I call it, “The First One.” Never did font family inter-marriages, and bad kerning, or over-zealous drop caps, leave my inner aesthetic soul. It’s still inside, and I see cringe worthy examples, around, all the time.
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A curious email dropped into my inbox “How I learned to code in six months,” by Meaghan Jones. I read it and then joined a program called One Month. One Month HTML is a four-week course that intends to show how to build your first website, learning HTML, CSS, FTP, SEO, Responsive Web Design, Blogs and other things. This isn’t a pitch for them. They dropped me into a course on Ruby. Really?! I am a fledgling, but I thought, let’s try it.
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