I am one to forget things as I go, so this website is serving a secondary purpose. Some of these blog posts will be a reminder post of sorts of things I can do, and what you can do as well, as we construct your own projects.
Ever since I started teaching web design, I decided to jump in head first and build a published site for all the world to see. Doing this allows me to give students real world examples of how web pages are built.
CSS
Recently I’ve been diving into CSS, which stands for Cascading Style Sheets. I teach CSS in 7th grade computer science and in the high school class, Website and Database Development. When the web was in its infancy, websites could be styled using HTML tags. That was very tedious and expensive when working with multi page sites. Every page would need to be styled individually. CSS solves this problem by being able to style an entire site by editing just one document! This makes it so much easier to manage and style multiple pages.
While on my CSS journey, I’ve found a resource with a handy animation framework to bring animations to your page. I’m currently using this in the site’s navigation bar. There are several animations and they are all customizable. If you’d like to install it on your own site, you can find the code at css-tricks.
CSS styles also allow you to create a mobile responsive website. it doesn’t matter if you browse your website on a desktop browser or a mobile phone, your website will always look the way you want it to.
Benefits
CSS allows you to create a unique and powerful website that can help your business stand out from the rest. If you are looking to make your mark on their digital landscape, you are going to need to have a website design that shows what makes your business or organization different from everyone else.
I’m going to continue in my CSS journey as I learn more about combining selectors and different properties. The next thing on my to do list is to learn how to use JavaScript to make my pages interactive. Using WordPress has not made that easy though, as I have to rely on WordPress plugins to use it. I can tell this is one of the downsides of using a content management system like WordPress. Hopefully I can figure it out!
