day one ~ may 27th

The first day! Today I was working on my CSS. Today I wasn't learning as much, I was more refreshing what I already know. I was going over topics to refresh my memory. Which actually helped a lot. I also learned more about pseudo-selectors, I knew what they were but I never really used them because I wasn't entirely sure what they did, now I do.

I found a website called "Frontend Mentor" that lets you practice your frontend development skills and I actually really like it. The practice project I chose today was creating a recipe page (if you want to see it, click here). I think it came out really cute. The only thing that was different from the mockup was the font and that's just bc I liked the look of the fonts I chose better. Ofc I know if I had a client I do the fonts they choose but this is for me. It also didn't take too long, about an hour to do the HTML and CSS. Well, I feel like that isn't that long, it might take someone else 30 min.

I want to start working on some web pages for practice too. One of the websites is a Home Cafe webpage I created during COVID that I never got back to, but I want to redo it because I know how to set things up better now (http://homecafe.42web.io/?i=2) It's cute but there are some quirks here and there. Plus I didn't put any recipes in there bc when I started it, I didn't even know what a database was so I thought I was going to have to link each and every one of the recipes I found, and that sounded atrocious to me. But now I know PHP and MySQL, so I can do that now. ...Okay, so it's kind of the same thing, cuz I'd have to enter each recipe into the database, but for some reason, it definitely feels more doable. I also want to make my personal webpage/web portfolio and some practice websites. But then I also have so many projects I want to make in general, not just websites. I really need to just pick one and stick to it till the "end". But I feel like if I do that I won't learn other things that I also want to be learning right now. I feel like it's like that quote "A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one." But I don't think I should be thinking like that if I want to get a job soon. I should stick to one and venture out after.

On that note tmr, I'm going to work on learning some Unity. I want to learn how to make nice UIs. The ones I've made before are pretty ugly. Like a black screen, an explanation of the game in the default font, and a button to start the game. I need it to be cuter than that.

But that was today, I think if I keep using that website my CSS skills will be pretty solid and that's what I feel like makes me doubt my skills. That and JavaScript, once I've got those down I'll feel pretty solid 👍.

• HTML: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

• CSS: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

• JavaScript: ⭐☆☆☆☆

• Unity: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

• GameMaker: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

• AWS: ☆☆☆☆☆