Wednesday night, I finished the coding class, and now I wait to find out if I made it to phase two. My second project bothered me, though. We had to create an card about an animal, and the only specs we were given was the size and what basic info the text needed to contain. I didn’t like how it looked when I finished it in February, but I moved on anyway.
See the design problems? There’s a weird line at the bottom, and a weird drop shadow and the text is too close to the left border, and I really don’t like the font…ugh.
So tonight I went back to it, and guess what?
I knew how to fix it.
I looked at the code and knew right away what I needed to play around with to bring it closer to my design standards. In less than five minutes, I had this:
This gave me such hope. At some point in the past six weeks, something clicked, and I knew how to use code to improve a web design. Now, I still struggle with how to use code for a website’s functionality, but I no longer think I won’t figure that out someday.
I just might be able to do this.
Beautiful! The process and realization you came to as well as your design.
This and your last post reminded of how often I think about Hadi Partovi at last year’s NETA conference saying that coding can teach creativity the same way English class does!