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365 Days of Coding Challenge: Day 7

Idrissa Thiam — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 05:52:28 +0000

Today is the seventh day of my journey to complete Joe Santos Garcia's (aka CodingPhase.com) Coding365Challenge.

I'm sorry for the late post. I decided to take a more structured approach for my daily projects. I began today by starting FreeCodeCamp Responsive Web Design Certification course. I just finished up the section on HTML forms and decided to do a project that would incorporate a little of what I learned.

I thought it would be cool to build a *simple* user registration form. I saw that renowned PHP/MySQL instructor John Morris had a tutorial on this so I decided to watch it and try to implement the code on my own shared server instance.

It took a little of bit of debugging some initial database connection errors--hence the late post--but I was able to get it working for use here: http://www.tech-roi.com/codepen/form.php.

Feel free to review the code repository on Github and browse a screenshot of the code below:

365 Days of Coding Challenge: Day 6

Idrissa Thiam — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 04:36:22 +0000

Today is the sixth day of my journey to complete Joe Santos Garcia's (aka CodingPhase.com) Coding365Challenge.

I was really pressed for time today but I started a project on how to more fully understand the use of Bootstrap collapsible classes. My goal for today was really to get on the right track for using collapsible classes in Bootstrap navigation headers.

Feel free to see the CodePen for Day 6 and a screenshot below: https://codepen.io/idrissalemairethiam/pen/eYYKOwK

Right now, the quality of this work is really poor, but I am attempting to learn web development from the ground up. I thank all of you for your patience and encouragement as I go this learning process--which is sometimes painfully slow.

365 Days of Coding Challenge: Day 5

Idrissa Thiam — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 04:39:55 +0000

Okay. So, I know this post is really late and I need to grind to get back on track. Today is the fifth day of my journey to complete Joe Santos' (aka CodingPhase.com) Coding365Challenge where I would be spend 365 days coding on the web.

I was starting a new HTML5 document and then I realized that I do not have a standard way of structuring my HTML without relying on Twitter Bootstrap. I investigated HTML5 Boilerplate (aka h5BP) and liked what I saw, but I felt it contained far more resources than I needed for creating simple one-page HTML/CSS projects (see what the Moz Community Forum says about referencing humans.txt).

My goal was to create an HTML Boilerplate that only includes three files while using various scripts and stylesheets on trusted CDNs.

Here is the link to my CodePen for Day 5 and a screenshot below: https://codepen.io/idrissalemairethiam/pen/ZEEoBjo

Please also feel free to review the repository on GitHub and leave a comment:
https://github.com/idrissathiam01/html5-boilerplate

Will post again soon!

365 Days of Coding Challenge: Day 4

Idrissa Thiam — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 08:13:46 +0000

Sorry everyone for the late post. Today is my fourth day of Joe Santos' (aka CodingPhase.com) Coding365Challenge. I am still working on this HTML email. With this latest work, I switched from using the Bootstrap framework to ZURB's Foundation for Emails as I realized that the Bootstrap framework was not displaying properly in several email clients (ie. Outlook).

As I noted above, this method displays better and uses HTML tables (!!!). In the coming days, I will be working more with the Foundation for Email framework to become more productive with producing layouts.

Here is the link to my CodePen for Day 4 and a screenshot below: https://codepen.io/idrissalemairethiam/pen/BaaYERX

365 Days of Coding Challenge: Day 3

Idrissa Thiam — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 05:11:00 +0000

Today is my third day of Joe Santos' (aka CodingPhase.com) Coding365Challenge. Again, I am working with the Bootstrap framework in the attempt of creating an HTML email for an e-commerce startup. With this latest work, I made some layout and content changes and embedded a Shopify product collection in the code.

It should be noted that I am currently not following the best practices concerning HTML email development--especially regarding responsive design and embedded JavaScript. In the days to come, I will work on revising my work to create a sendable email that appears without formatting errors in the majority of inboxes.

Here is the link to my CodePen for Day 3 and a screenshot below: https://codepen.io/idrissalemairethiam/pen/QWWQjRw

A quick shoutout to the Litmus.com's PutsMail HTML email testing service which offers a free way to test HTML emails in a multi-part fashion.

I know this sucks right now but I hope to level-up as I increase in consistency. Bye for now.

365 Days of Coding Challenge: Day 2

Idrissa Thiam — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 06:05:22 +0000

Today is my second day of getting into Joe Santos' (aka CodingPhase.com) Coding365Challenge. Right now, I know what I am putting out is not really demonstrative any tangible skills but it is just my goal to get into the habit of coding on a daily basis. Hopefully, in the days to come, I can be timely with my commits and the quality of my work can improve.

Here is the link to my CodePen for Day 2 and a screenshot below: https://codepen.io/idrissalemairethiam/pen/QWWarZg

A quick shoutout to the FontAwesome icon font and the Sirv Image CDN which I am starting to get familiar with by using in this project.

Cheers for now!

365 Days of Coding Challenge: Day 1

Idrissa Thiam — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 04:00:10 +0000

Today I decided to take part in Joe Santos' (aka CodingPhase.com) coding challenge where I will be coding for an entire year.

I made this decision kind of late in the day so the only thing I have to show off today is a simple HTML "Hello World" page using Bootstrap. Free free to see the screenshot below and the link to the CodePen. I hope it is not too late.

https://codepen.io/idrissalemairethiam/pen/xxxpdJw