Figuring things out, one line of code at a time.
One of the most challenging things about my coding journey has been balancing it with everything else I have to do. If I had my way, I'd spend all of my time coding and writing, but the reality is that I'm a single mom navigating a pandemic and launching a consultancy. While that last part… Continue reading Day ???: Flexbox
Turns out my new fixed header placement threw off my navbar links (the top part of the destination was now hidden under the header), so I had to add some hidden links and a class to offset the destination by a tad more than the header height. Found the solution on StackOverflow here and tweaked… Continue reading Day 16: Shifting and Styling
I had to take a little break to put together a big proposal on the fly, but I've been dying to get back to my CSS wrapup. Today I finally got to look at positioning again and I decided to create a fixed header for my form. I used relative positioning to push the container… Continue reading Day 15: Back to Business
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
Did a little more reading in HTML & CSS: Design and Build Websites" today, but I also wanted to add the new images to the submit page for this project. I intended to do it yesterday, but I needed to restructure the page so that the existing CSS styling rules would apply properly to this… Continue reading Day 13: Pretty Pics
I spent most of this afternoon's session setting up Git on my mac so I could start committing to my existing GitHub portfolio (which I never used nearly enough last time around anyway). It so happens that it has been in my to-do list for ages and, in my haste to jump into my review… Continue reading Day 12: Git-ing Back on Track
I won't lie, I dreaded the responsive design/media query portion of my review plans because I recall being somewhat confused about it the first time around, but I had so much fun with it this time! It DEFINITELY helps to be applying it to a project as I review (which is what I should've done… Continue reading Day 11: Responsive Design
Considering the way this week got away from me, I decided to finish it up with some reading on the basics of CSS. So I went back to "HTML & CSS: Design and Build Websites" and did some digging into pseudo-elements, pseudo-classes and attribute selectors. I also realised that I'd been inadvertently using filter:drop-shadow to… Continue reading Day Ten: Pseudo CSS
Talk about getting side-tracked! I had to put some heavy time into a couple of other projects yesterday and on Tuesday, so I had to step back from my return to my coding journey for a bit, which I HATED. As a result, I decided to do a little reading today to shore up my… Continue reading Day 9: Detour
Finished up basic styling with CSS today. Still not thrilled about the button placement, but I'll sort that out once I dig further into flexbox. Also next up, media query review! Updated code here (though codepen doesn't allow media uploads with its free accounts, so the backgrounds and images won't be visible). Today's progress.
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