Figuring things out, one line of code at a time.
November was a VERY heavy month workwise and schoolwise, so I had to take yet another break, but as things eased up in the last week, I got to spend a little time working on the rotation of the cakes and I've finally nailed down their movements! In a clockwise direction, that is. I was… Continue reading Cake Coordination
Spent a couple hours working on the slider movements for the menu page header. It was fairly simple to create th enecessary animations in CSS: Perfect. The tricky part is the Javascript. I actually wrote the code to handle the first cake's movements with an if/else statement and an onclick event handler, but the issue… Continue reading The Tough Stuff
The headers and banner are now complete except for the 'small' matter of the rotating slider. I spent today's session adjusting the cake placement and writing the slide-in effects. These were pretty simple to do given that I'd built out similar effects for the headers already. I love how it came out: Ta-da! Next I… Continue reading Smoooooth Sliding
That headline is a whole travesty 😂, but dammit, I earned it. I finally figured out how to get both headers to slide down without breaking the scroll movement! As I suspected, it had something to do with the divs and how I was treating them. Specifically, I needed to treat with the header as… Continue reading Getting a-head(er)
I spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to figure out how to separately fade and drop in my dual headers onload. I almost had it all before I had to call it a day. I got as far as arranging the two separate fade-ins and setting the secondary header to slide down slowly, but… Continue reading Tweaking
Heavy deadlines kept me away for a couple of weeks, but there's no way I wasn't coming back to this project as soon as I came up for air. Today, I put some work into the new menu page, mostly into the new secondary header and the banner. I had to add two divs in… Continue reading Back At It
I've been super busy (too busy to post updates), but I've been grabbing time to review and make changes to my site as often as possible. I ended up liking the CakeMonster footer enough to add it to the portfolio site (it caused some responsiveness bugs because their layouts are different, but I sorted them).… Continue reading Jumping into Javascript
So... I took another detour. 😂 Today's progress really started at about midnight, when, after tweaking my current form project a bit, I decided to add one of my old React projects to my GitHub profile "real quick". Two hours later, I'd added Node and React to my computer so I could tweak the code… Continue reading Day 14: Node & React
I started my coding journey inadvertently in December of 2018, while looking for a fun way to encourage my daughter in the STEM arena. A lifelong Lits lover (with the Lits BA to prove it), I didn't know where to start, but stumbled across code.org and, while testing out the course to make sure it was suitable for her, I discovered that coding was something I wanted to pursue.
I've read a great deal about coding since I've started this journey, much of it very (maybe even a bit too) encouraging ("Anyone can code! Here's how to go from novice to engineer in 6 months!"), but some of it more grounded in a realistic understanding of what it takes to actually make it in the field.
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