coding – Page 2 – Learning Journal

My HTML has cobwebs

I took AAD 85 in the Spring of 2023. I also was working at a company where I had to use HTML/CSS on the daily. After the Spring, and after getting laid off, I haven’t looked at a line of code since. And it shows.

Final proposal

As the class is coming to an end the final project for the class, I’m working on right now were going to be developing our own website to a target audience and my audience will be anyone who is interest in the fantasy of the comic book world to see and understand some interesting and some non-interesting characters from the Marvel and DC universe’s. I’m excited to find and create the research for this project it’s something I’m interested in and also watched and read all the movies and comic books.

ADDING MEDIA QUERIES

This week were learning how to put our websites to fit into mobile devices, tablet, desktop, anything to show to it will look on the screen whether its straight, vertical, and horizontal.

This is the code in adding media queries for websites @media only screen and (min-width:700px){ } then input where it says “700px” and put the size of the website you want people to be viewing and add different styles for each viewing for if its a mobile devices, tablet, or a desktop.

CSS Media Queries for Beginners: Breakpoints, Max-Width, Min-Width, and More – YouTube I was referred to watch this video to get use to media queries and how to properly use them.

Templates for beginners

while in class were doing our final rough drafts of the website of our choosing to create about a certain topic, mine is a lawyer website and a tool that helped me use HTML and CSS to create my page and now a helpful tool for me to reference new code or refresh on the basics.

CSS Navigation Bar (w3schools.com)

Here you can look up what you’re trying to create, and it will show you how it should look like in code and in another browser window to show a live code view of how it can look on a website screen.

New To Grid!

For this week’s reflecting on what we have been learning in class in HTML/ CSS Dreamweaver is how to make Grid’s in Dreamweaver. In doing that Grid is for two-dimensional layouts, meant to work with flex box, and when using flex box it uses heavily on “flex-wrap:wrap;” code onto Dreamweaver consider using grid instead wrap. Grid-gap helps you keep space between grid items. Grid-template-columns can take different units of measure.

Here is a video I found that’s been a reference now on understanding CSS grid and flex box in which I have been having trouble understanding.

CSS Grid Layout Crash Course – YouTube

update on HTML

In class we have been learning the basics of HTML and CSS of assembling it on Dreamweaver. The basic elements of creating the specific code we want as in <header> <p> <a href> <h1> <body> , etc to create and become familiar in the basics of setting up the code for a website. Also learning how to transfer files on an FTP I use FileZilla, to make our sites live has really been exciting. We are also setting up a portal page to link our projects for this semester.

here’s a little video I found that was interesting for typography

So.Much.Code

These last 2 weeks have been filled with so much code! Between learning SASS, Parallax and Bootstrap, it is a lot to wrap your head around! *Whew*

Tardy End Post

Yes, I am a fan of these learning journals, and yes, I contradict myself because I often find myself forgetting to do them… However, I’ll go over the last few weeks of class!

I’ve loved all these classes. I’ve done all 4, starting with Natalie and ending with Bill. It’s been fantastic, challenging, and fun. It’s been hard and really, you put some blood, sweat, and a few tears, into figuring everything out. Once you do though, it’s so rewarding.

PHP N’ Me

This week, we learned more about PHP, with which I had only minimal experience previously.

Hold Up… Rewind…

I seemed to get ahead of myself in the last blog post. I forgot to add thoughts about our awesome guest speaker! But this week I will, along with some Javascript-y flashbacks being introduced to PHP.

Why Code?

This past week really makes me look back and question whether I am a glutton for punishment.

Hey, Look What I Can Do!

These last few weeks, post-spring break, have been crazy… fun! It worries me a little because I’m wondering, “What the hell have I been doing the first half of the semester?”

So Little Time

I don’t think this is because its the end of the semester, but for some reason its like I have zero time to do anything and get it done. Its as if I don’t even know what time management is. So much to do, and yet so little time…

Highs N’ Lows

This past week, I learned a few lessons that I’ve previously known about, but I have seem to have forgotten for the moment and needed reminding.

Going Mobile

This last week I couldn’t attend class due to family events and Thursday we had no class. However, there was still a lot of learning to be had within the course files. I think this week the work made me go through all the emotions – fun, annoyed, and relief!