Turning something Ugly into Beautiful

Recently I have been learning html & css and I build a website:

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It was not pretty and I knew it. But I was kinda happy, it was something I made. It was like my small baby. So after learning a bit more I improved it. I tweaked a couple of things, added a background and found out how to put objects in different positions which was a major upgrade.

Still, the colors weren't that good. It was half-done, something felt left out. After a couple of more Udemy lectures I decided to actually target my learning about Css and copy a popular German website called "Tageschau", I Agressively copied from the header up to the footer, every single points layout and even added my own twists. I ended up using the colors from discord (as I liked them) in order to finally make this masterpiece.

Looking back on it I spent a big portion of time making it look good, which isn't a normal thing for programmer (in my experience, I'm sorry fellow programmer), but it made the whole process so much more satisfying seeing it so nice!

Suprisingly, the biggest difficulty was making the header actually fixed, I tried various things, lots of things, and I just couldn't fix it. Another problem were the left and right dark gray areas.
I initially used flex to make 3

1x left, 1 right and then the middle for the main body, but every single time I made a long paragraph or increased the image slightly too much the dark gray parts shrinked while the center grew - It looked off and just hated it! Ahhhh

... but after a normal day, some breakfast, I sat down at my pc and simply tried a thing out and it clicked.
I tried replacing the left & right area from

with 'margin-left' and 'margin-right' and it worked!
The dark gray left and right parts stayed the same no matter how big the image in the middle was or the length of an paragraph! That moment I fell in love with the margin and padding code in Css!
After one miracle another one happened - I easily made the header actually stick while scrolling. It was so simple...

Some days I don't feel like coding or think 'maybe it's not for me', but after struggling days and days, trying something out, falining, repeating it, having enormous amount of little problems and somehow getting through them.
You get a website that looks 'less bad' and still 'not professional'. But YOU see it differently, YOU feel something different by just looking at it! You see it as a masterpiece. The best website you have ever seen! Because if theres one thing you are absolutely sure about, it is that YOU WORKED making it AND now FEEL ON TOP OF THE WORLD!! NOW I FEEL LIKE I WAS MADE FOR THIS!
My name is Mark and THIS is my First Blog!