The Process
Learning HTML and CSS back to back has definitely been a tough hurdle. I couldn’t even reliably find my download files just a month ago! Despite that, I now feel the urge to learn as much as I can about CSS. It’s not even just for the sake of our upcoming verification quest project, but just the idea of constructing an entire webpage from scratch has hooked me. I’ve only ever created something like this once before, and that was through a template we used online. It was a much less engaging process.
I think the reason why I am so eager to experiment with HTML and CSS is because it actually seems like a useful skill to have. I don’t know… I kind of feel naive for how excited this has gotten me. Like, anything involving tech has never been one of my strong suits.
Verification Quest
I was anxious coming into this project. Mostly because I don’t really use a whole lot of social media, so I wasn’t too sure where I would find my potential piece of misinformation. Even when I do find myself catching headlines, I typically just ignore them. There is just too much information to absorb from the web to consider most things I see. It doesn’t help that I have an awful memory. That’s why I had to resort to doing random google searches to find anything worth writing about.
Carrie Dils
Although I still don’t grasp the full ins-and-outs of CSS, Dils does help clarify a lot about it. One thing that I wasn’t too sure of was the different forms CSS can be applied to html. We have to write CSS through an external style sheet for the project, but I definitely thought inline or embedded style was how we would do it. After watching Dils’ guide, I now see how an external style sheet streamlines the process much more than the other two options.
The CSS feature that I am most interested in is either flex box or CSS grid. I know that DIls said that they work well with each other, but I need to at least learn one first. They seem like two of the most important features that can significantly change how your HTML appears. I still have to work out all their different part though.
Specificity is another aspect of CSS that I didn’t really understand. Since we are doing everything on an external style sheet, there probably isn’t going to be an errors involving inline CSS overriding anything. The !important syntax also just seems redundant. Besides that, everything else will likely make more sense with experience.
Comments
2 responses to “CSS: Breaking News”
I am happy you are so excited for learning HTML and CSS! I wish I could relate. I was at first excited to learn the language, because like you, I found it to be something that would be useful for future careers and projects. Unfortunately, my excitement dwindled rather rapidly after the Jen Simmon’s LinkedIn course. It left me so confused and all my excitement was gone.
I can understand how the Verification Quest might be hard for you since you don’t use social medias. I can only imagine all the random Googling you had to do (lol). I hope you found a piece of misinformation that you are excited to debunk!
You have a really great attitude for these projects! You said that HTML and CSS was a hurdle as the start, but I do believe that you’ll be able to make something really awesome just because you seem so interested and so keen on being able to learn from doing!
I really wish that I had more time to spare for these projects. I really wanted to also dive deeper into HTML and CSS, but I do hope that you can make something you’re proud of!