For the first time in years I took almost 2 weeks off from my day job. It felt so short but it was long enough to completely ruin my daily routines: my coding practices, writing plans, and sleep schedule. I’m slowly getting back to that routine. So what I thought would be a 2-week break …
Archives for Tag: CSS
Survey of HTML5 Part 1: HTML5 Coding Essentials and Best Practices
Last week I completed part 1 of the edX HTML5 Coding Essentials and Best Practices course facilitated by the W3Cx group. It’s the first HTML related course I’ve taken since I started the FreeCodeCamp curriculum (one day I’ll make it back over there). My reasons for enrolling in this course were to reacquaint myself with …
Trying out Sass with CSS, part 2
Following up on the Sass Essentials course I watched, CSS to Sass: Converting an Existing Site which showed various techniques on converting an existing site from “vanilla css” to sass. As I mentioned before, WordPress themes utilize Sass, so if you choose to use the Underscores starter theme (which I’ve used on my own themes …
Trying out Sass with CSS, part 1
Last post I write about my growing interest in using Sass for CSS development. First I’ll review some of what I learned in the Sass Essentials Training course and then review my top takeaways from the CSS to Sass: Converting an Existing Site video course in part 2 of this series. In the Sass Essentials …
FreeCodeCamp: Basic Front End Development Projects – Review – Part 1
Basic Front End Development Project #1: Tribute Page *completed on 4/18/16 The first basic front end development project is a tribute page. You’re asked to create a page fulfilling two user stories: 1) include text & images 2) link to an external web page for more information on the person you created a tribute page …
This Week in Coding: #002
Got unnecessarily busy towards the end of the last week so I was not able to log my activities for the week, but here they are! Self-paced coding activities: Completed the HTML5/CSS section of FreeCodeCamp.com. Completed the Responsive Design w/Bootstrap exercises on FreeCodeCamp.com. Reading Materials Intro to Bootstrap (will need to go through each individual …