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Week 4 Learnings

This week taught me a lot about the importance of Typography in a website!

Organization with HTML and CSS

Organization can feel like a chore; practically everything in your house needs organizing: your room, your clothes, your kitchen, even your garage. Oftentimes, it can feel like a pain to have to go through everything and clean it up, but once it is done, it makes tasks that come after it feel less heavy. This also applies to HTML

Week 1-2: What the new things I learned

I thought I knew all the basic HTML tags until I stumbled upon native elements that handle features I used to write JavaScript for. Here are a few pleasant surprises from my recent learning process!

Before diving deeper into HTML documentation, I was confident that I already knew all the essential tags. However, I recently discovered a few powerful native elements that I previously assumed required complex JavaScript code. For example, I had no idea that <progress> provides a built-in tag for progress bars without needing JS logic to render the basic UI, or that <datalist> offers a native way to create autocomplete dropdown lists for input fields. I am still in the process of exploring HTML tags on W3Schools , but I highly recommend this resource for anyone studying web development independently.

Weeks 1 – 2: Relearning the Fundamentals

Jumping back into school after taking a 5 year break from learning anything new I reacclimatized myself quickly to the online platform. Although I have a some experience with HTML from my 9 to 5 I feel like relearning the basics and its helping me to deeper my understanding of the markup language I use on a daily basis.

What I Learned in My First Two Weeks

During the first two weeks of this class, I learned more about how HTML works and how it is used to build webpages. Before this class, I knew a little about websites, but I did not really understand what was happening behind the page.

Trusting the process with HTML

I’ve always been the type to want to know the ending before anything else; I’ve been that way for books, movies, shows—anything, really. It wasn’t until this last week that I realized I do the same thing with HTML.

Learning More About HTML

This week I feel like HTML started to make a little more sense to me. At first, I was mostly focused on remembering different tags and trying not to make mistakes in my code. But after working on my future resume and looking through other students’ code, I started paying more attention to how everything is organized. I learned more about <section> and <article>, and I actually went back and added <article> tags to my resume to organize each job and education entry better.

Learnings of the Week

I learned quite a fair bit this week! Both in CSS and in General. I found out while looking through the HTML Reference on MDN is that HTML elements are organized into different “content categories.”, which I was unaware of until now.

My Web Design Learning Journal

Weeks 1–2: Getting Started with HTML

During the first two weeks of class, I learned how to navigate the course modules and became more familiar with the class organization, expectations, and assignments. Understanding how the course is structured has helped me know what I need to complete and what is expected of me throughout the class. At the same time, I started learning the basics of HTML and became more familiar with different HTML elements. I learned about the basic structure of an HTML document and how HTML tags are used to organize different types of content on a webpage. I practiced working with headings, paragraphs, links, images, and lists.

I also learned that HTML elements can include attributes that provide additional information or affect how an element works. This helped me understand that there are many different ways to organize and build content on a webpage.

Another activity I worked on was exploring the MDN Web Docs. I looked through the documentation and discovered many HTML elements and features that I had not used before. I realized that HTML has many more tags and possibilities than I originally thought, and that each element has a specific purpose. I am still learning when and how to use different tags, but exploring them has made me more interested in web design.

Overall, these first two weeks have given me a strong beginning in learning HTML and web design. I am still getting comfortable with the different elements and how they work together, but continued practice with images, links, and webpage content is helping me build my skills. I am looking forward to learning more about HTML, CSS, and other areas of web design as the class continues.