From Front Desk to Front End p.2

So most of this past week has been committed to completing the last Guided Project in the Responsive Coding class I am doing at with Skillcrush.
You can follow everything I've done here on my github in a much more condensed form obv., and here it is rendered by GH pages.

Next week I'll start adding additional content about my program, my daily schedule, etc. 😁

6/29/22:

I went over the solution code for this challenge and compared to what I had decided for the mobile styles.
What I learned:

• I repeated myself too much in areas that could be brought to global styles.
• Learned how to make a div by just making a colored space between sections!
• I got some ideas for how to make the margins and padding work but ultimately stuck by my own decisions in some areas, we'll see if that continues to play out. V hot today 😎

I began styling the Tablet styles, which is always p disheartening bc formatting always looks bad at first then better as you edit.
🎧 Flow Jams: More Alcest
🌺 Destress Activity: Night walk with my partner and neck massages. I also did a five min faceplant on the bed bc sometimes that's what you need

6/30/22:

I added the basic layouts via media inquiries for the tablet and desktop following along with the lessons in Skillcrush. Then I finished the lessons on responsive images and iframes by creating the sizing for the tablet and desktops. Anyone following along with Skillcrush lessons will realize I jumped around and I added the font styling, background and images FIRST then went through all of the lessons regarding the mobile styles and finalized by going through for mobile and tablets.

I've always liked to add colors and fun things ASAP! It keeps my focus better. I used to choose the silliest (readable) font and bright colors for my essays in college just to make it that much more entertaining for myself.

There's a few flexbox areas that are giving me flack, but everything is shaping up and I'm getting to the point of squint-and-tweak for the remaining margins and padding! 💪
I still need to understand where to use flex-basis vs. width more and have highlighted that in my CSS to look into.
🎧 Flow Jams: Magma
🌺 [forgot to input!]

7/1/22:

I was able to fix of the few silly sections myself, but ultimately pulled out the solution code from a later point now that I am in the last stretch for a number I was still stuck on. I quickly learned to pay more attention to my HTML and how my divs were arranged (of course), and renamed some sections where the solution was much clearer. I was able to further fix a few sections on my own just by refocusing that way. Looking good!!
Then my footer social icons disappeared after I made all of the footers uniformly beautiful, whyyyyy? Oh, my internet went suddenly down and they are linking from font awesome... Thank goodness... Sometimes computers make more sense than humans, but sometimes it's easy to characterize them as mischievous. 💻
Oh, it's looking so good! Wait, what is that sudden blank space...

I'll come back to this with a fresh brain after the holiday for final wrap up right on sched!
🎧 Flow Jams: Emancipator
🌺 Destress Activity: : 🎮 Hollowknight

7/4/22:

Happy Holiday! 🇺🇸

7/5/22:

I kept chipping away at tweaking the Unplugged project, but am not making good progress on my remaining problem areas. So I wrote some specific questions to an instructor at Skillcrush and scheduled a Q&A for Friday. In the mean time to give my brain a switch-up I started new challenge which is v exciting, I put down the HTML skeleton today and introduced myself to the Front End Mentor community! This is the challenge I'm doing.
Edited to add later: I also realized something VERY IMPORTANT missing from my regular workflow!!! I don't think I've done a great job at ensuring I ALWAYS do my initial commit to exercises or projects BEFORE starting them. ): For my projects I coded everything so while lame is eh ok, but mostly I am bummed that the exercises I have been pushing are not as good a record of my individual efforts. Lesson learned!
🎧 Flow Jams: Erykah Badu
🌺 Destress Activity: Just workout today 💪