Day 22

Well hello again!

Glad to say I've definitely made some progress. I began work on a couple more pages for the robotics website. Sad to say, but I might have to redo them. But only the colours. I think the colours work well as is, but I think with the new design and all I should redo the colours too. Change the banner up a little as well. I think things will go nicely.

Now, I'll have a couple pictures of the other pages down at the bottom. One thing I seem to be struggling with is making two <div>'s work in harmony side-by-side. This is exemplified on the Safety (first picture) page. The only reason they seem to be working on the other pages is because I'm using a table. I'm trying to get away from that though. I'd like to be able to use divs for pretty much everything because they're easier to adjust than a table. Like on the "outreach" page, the pictures and the ruler are in line, but they're off to the left, and weirdly placed and I'm having a frustrating time with that.

I know I'll get it soon! I also found a good way to make the menu items also have cascading menu items. I'll implement those soon, once I finish with the designs.

That's really I have for an update right now. So, I guess I'll talk to you in a few days to check up on how things are going then!

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Day 19

Well, hello again.

It's only Day 19 and I've really made progress, guys, I'm really proud of myself. I really started in on the robotics website and I've almost finished the first page. It's taken a lot of tweaking and Googling and refreshing, but it's finally almost done. And all in one day too! I'd say, for someone building a web page from scratch, that's pretty good, especially for not having ever done so. I found a really cool navigation theme...thing... while browsing /r/web_design today. I posted the progress (when I was about half-way done) on our team's Facebook page earlier today. They seem to like it. It's a whole lot cleaner, but I still have to figure out some better colours.

I'm using tables, is that a bad thing? I've heard a lot about how people shouldn't use tables. "DON'T USE TABLES" they say. It seems to organize my content quite nicely. I guess I'm just not as advanced as they are. Or maybe they're just table haters. Either way, I'm using tables until I find a better way to arrange content.

I'll upload the pic(s) of the home page at the end of this post, I think it's looking pretty great. I might post the code up here some time, even. I'm really getting the hang of practical applications of HTML and CSS.

I guess that's it for now. Will update soon with the rest of the progress. I also need to get started on my own personal/portfolio website.

Until next time, happy coding.