Category: AAD 086 SP19

Positioning, Float and Flex

Thinking of hanging a picture on the wall, I could hear the voices “Move it to the left” or “Move it to the right” or “move it to the above” and so on. During the design process, we sometimes need to put one element on a certain position.

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Journal Entry – Week 5

This week was a struggle. I had a really hard time with the flex box and concentric project. I spent way more time on this project then I would have liked. I tried to do the projects without looking at the notes and realized that without a starting point, I seem to blank out and would feel lost. Once I looked at the code then it clicked. I’m not sure if it’s the anxiety of having to write code or just feeling confident in myself that I know how to code is what I’m struggling with.

Week 4 – WoW

All I could think last week is that everyone else in class is more awesome than I am. They seem to get their act together faster on their sites, and make things look like grown ups have made them. I feel like I am fumbling along.

I think I like the idea of flex box. It appeals to the lazy side of me, and it seems like you can do more for more platforms (with a lot less work). I wonder why they teach you the float method at all? <<sigh>>

I feel like the exercises are doing me good. I have had too many classes where they talk to you too much, and my brain goes asleep. The occasional (1) here is what you should know , (2) apply what I just showed you (aka”Try It”) helps me retain this more (and not just zone out in class).

Flex Your Floats!

As a designer, I really like to think outside the box and do stuff that no one else is willing to try, or just haven’t yet. Usually, its just me being over zealous. Nevertheless, when it comes to using block elements and making a page that’s pretty and organized, utilizing floats and flexbox creates a panic-less me.

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Journal Entry – Week 4

I felt like I learned a lot this week. We covered floats and flexbox in CSS this week. We didn’t cover much of this when I took the beginning web design class. I feel like we covered so much material in such a short amount of time at the Art Institute. I feel like more of the information is soaking in this time around and I’m starting to understand what the code does when I code it into CSS.