Day Three - CSS

Our homework assignment was to create three html pages connected via links with a set of text for each.

Fortunately the group activity we did a couple hours before was nearly identical but slightly more advanced. I finished it in pretty quick fashion. That being said one of the sites that I had to build bugs me. Creating a table in HTML is super painful to build row by row, cell by cell. Its not hard but time consuming with a single monitor. I understood it all and did it in a timely fashion but hated every second of that. Makes me want to know how to get data in faster from another source. So I guess that's the saving grace right?

Our lessons to review last night were about CSS. Again…really blessed to have taken the Web Development Basics course previously. I, and a few others, have a bit of a head start on these topics. The following were my takeaways:

Struggles: Continuous instructions in declaration. In CSS you can do all the content in the same row in the declaration instead of breaking into parts. I'm sure I might go that route once I get farther.
Understood: Display. Block, Inline, and Inline-Block. This I learned in the Web Dev. Basics class. I get the basics behind it all. Block is vertical, Inline allows for horizontal, and Inline-Block allows horizontal and for custom height/weight dependent on margins. This is a super simplistic way of explaining it. There's more to it.

Looking forward to: Using CSS and HTML. Right now it's separated so I'm looking forward to applying these two into one here soon.

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