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A CSS chapter closes...

Raissa K. — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:05:11 +0000

I walked into 100devs not knowing what to expect, my entire experience with making a website had been as a child playing around on Windows Notepad.

It started off slow with HTML tags and structure ("Oh! Those look familiar!") and quickly picked up pace.

Soon came CSS fundamentals, and that's where it started to get fun!

Separation of concerns. The Cascade. Classes & IDs. Specificity. Relationships. Colors and fonts. The Box Model.

Responsiveness, media queries. Floats.

Those were the tools we were given when assigned the creation of 7 website layouts from scratch (8, if you count the bonus pushwork).

There are many things that could have made it easier, such as flex and grids, but we were supposed to focus on getting the hang of floats. I'm also sure things such as CSS preprocessors or libraries would have made the sailing smoother, but that was not the point.

Click here to see the last one I made before submitting the homework..

It's not perfect, or the prettiest. It can certainly be improved - and it will, in time, as I build up knowledge and learn more skills/tools...

...But it's mine, and I'm proud.

I'm proud of my progress in this first chapter.

I'm proud of how hard I worked.

And I'm ready to move on to JavaScript, fully aware of the Through of Sorrow that is waiting for me.

So here's to the past 6 weeks at 100devs, and the 24 more to come!

A reminder to self

Raissa K. — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:33:47 +0000

I should have posted this earlier - it happened last week - but here goes a reminder to future self:

When you're tired and it feels like your mind is stretched too thin, just take a break and do something - whatever! - else.

A couple of weeks back I was trying to recreate a simple about page from a image that had been provided as reference.

It was all going well until I tested the fluidity of the page and although it all looked great on full screen, any changes to screen size would cause the image to flow out of the section.

I tried several tips from all over StackOverflow, but they were more directed at images inside their own containers and didn't help me much.

Almost at the point of giving up I realized a super tiny detail: I hadn't set a max width to the section.

Boom, fixed it. The image stayed put, increasing or decreasing in size with the rest of the content.

That took me too long to fix, but I'm aware this is just a small taste of things to come.

Harnessing all my inner willpower...

Raissa K. — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 05:08:44 +0000

...to get to writing.

It's not that I don't like it, really.

(over a decade of language teaching might endear you to the activity)

It's just that I feel there has always been a very personal aspect to whatever I write.

But then again, journaling my career change and small learning victories will be very different from regular creative writing.

I don't expect to educate or inspire - not for a while at least - but these posts will be an entertaining read when I look back and see how far I've come.

Maybe the time has come to puff up my chest and say I blog?

DEV Community: Raissa K.

A CSS chapter closes...

A reminder to self

Harnessing all my inner willpower...

(over a decade of language teaching might endear you to the activity)

besides, there's a lot of interesting content around these parts