Tribute-http://codepen.io/terminusindex/pen/jALqQW
Blew through 90 lessons yesterday and landed myself in the first project pit. It’s not much and I am proud of accomplishing it, but after browsing around and seeing all the awesome work here, it feels…inadequate. I’m wondering how I can get better, but is just using FCC a bad thing? I feel like it was a very spartan introduction to a bunch of new concepts that they wanted me to replicate when I hadn’t encountered much of the stuff in the tutorials. Next on the list is the Portfolio Page, but I feel like I’ll be drowning in research for the simplest of things in regards to implementing it from the example given without looking at the code. Any advice?
As far as the curriculum goes, have a look at this post in the FCC section of Medium.
I’m in the same boat as you are. The exercises flew by and I got to the Build a Tribute page and felt lost for a while. For a while I had a blue background with 1 light blue container. I kept thinking about how this looked so 1995. Everything was blue blocks with black text back then.
But once you start finding answers to your questions by Googling it gets quicker as you go. At least that was my experience. I couldn’t find a way to get my text to look good with my container colour and I stumbled on a way to make the colour translucent. So a basic Google search about text colour turned into me finding a nice effect for a container and another one for box shadows.
A couple of days ago I felt the same way you did but today I feel great about what I’m learning.
I definitely feel like I need a few intermediary projects under my belt before I try and tackle the Portfolio. I think I might try some of the stuff listed in the article and start working on JavaScript for the time being. I just hope that it keeps expanding on what was learned so far.
I hadn’t submitted my Tribute page until now.
I see what you mean, I think I need something else before I tackle this one. I didn’t realize the Porfolio was immediately after the Tribute page.
I like the way you have the background stationary while the rest can scroll. Very artistic. You seem to have a problem with your unordered list. The bullets are on the far left but each item in the list is centered. It gives a strange effect. A nice start.
Thanks so much for the tips guys! I added a div to surround the list and gave it the text-center class, then added the ul rules for display:inline-block and text-align:left and that did the trick to straighten everything out. This works for now since I only have one list, but if I had multiple I think I might want to assign id’s especially if I wanted to format each differently.
Not gonna lie though, I kinda liked the offset bullets
