Learning Journal – Page 17 – For Applied Art & Design at Sierra College

A greedy week

This week we learned about CSS grids and I really believe this is an exciting tool to work with. There are so many possibilities that are being open with grids. You can build a whole grid template and change the positioning of elements on different screen sizes by changing one property and it’s really cool.

Already Week Four!

We have been in school for a month now but it does not feel like it to me.

Almost One Month of School Already

Hello! I cannot believe that one month has already passed for school already. One month in, and I feel like I have already done so much. I am pretty sure that online classes make it seem like I have more work to do in general. The whole process of going through online classes is still a weird feeling even after a month. I think I will adjust overtime. It is a weird feeling of going through lectures whenever you want, having to learn what is taught yourself, and then doing the assignments just seems so different since I have been attending classes physically for the past 20+ years.

Typography

I have take a class before on typography and know that the way your text looks can change how someone will look at your site or business. More info below.

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.

Time is going by…

I can’t believe that we are already a few weeks in. I feel like time is going by really fast. We have already reviewed HTML mark up and now we’re onto CSS, typography, and FTP.

We made it to week 5!

Well these few weeks have definitely challenged me quite a bit. I am happy for the challenge however its been a bit stressful with balancing and managing my time. This class is definitely time consuming but I am also enjoying seeing the end result after all the hard work!

Week 4: HTML, CSS, FTP and Typography

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.

Week 4: Typography, FTP, CSS and some sweet struggles

Here comes another week knee-deep in online study. This week is exciting because our work finally gets manifested online! I spent hours finessing over our portal page, it is our FIRST thing live online! Hopefully I can improve the technical aspects of this page as the semester continues.

Week 4 of our online experience

Its the fourth week of online classes here at sierra and so far its an improvement from the end of the last term but I don’t think it’s comparable to our traditional in-class learning.

CSS, typography and time management

During these two weeks I learned very interesting terms about CSS and Typography and I wish I have few more hours to put in reading and research.

Week 4 – Typography and Portal Pages

Does everybody feel like this semester is moving along pretty fast? It’s been a month since it started already…

CSS, Typography and More

I have learned a lot these last couple of weeks about CSS and Typography. I was able to get a refresher on CSS while also learning some things about CSS that I didn’t know.

Busy Week!

Wow this week has been FULL of information! FTP, Portal Site, Typography …

CSS, FTP, FONTS

These couple of weeks we covered a bunch of themes. We discussed the major CSS principles, glanced over FTP clients and interactions with web servers, and, the fun part, discussed typography in general fonts in web design in particular.

Yet another week

This week we learned about big ideas in CSS and how to identify them.

Second Week of AAD

This week I realized I have a lot to catch up on. Reading up on HTML there are so many things to learn and experiment with.

A new semester

And so we start another semester under such awkward circumstances…

My Learning goals

I really enjoy learning HTML and CSS and want to keep perfecting them until I can accurately reach my goal.

What I learned about HTML deep dive Lecture!

In basic class on HTML and CSS, you probably learned that HTML is a pretty simple language. It has tags and the tags sometimes have attributes. Some of the tags create new blocks on the browser window, like and <h1>, and some tags are inline elements, like . Some tags have closing tags like and some are self closing, like . That is about it to the language right?

Well, not exactly. Those are the basics and really all you need to know to get started with HTML, but there is a lot to the language that is interesting and that not everyone knows. This is a great opportunity to go deeper and know more about it.

Watch the videos below to get deeper into it, and take notes as you go along. You might want to refer to some of these resources again later. Also, the examples mentioned in the video are linked below the video, so you might want to get those and work with them, as you watch the videos.