Project 01: Fighting the Link Formatting

As mentioned previously, I found the task of styling elements that doubled up as an <a> tag to be a tricky task indeed. I still feel that way, so instead of taking on the whole beast with one swing, I decided to extract the "Read More" section of The Telegraph and work on that singularly. It definitely helps, and what I came up with wasn't perfect, but it was definitely a lot more manageable.

While I'm sure any untrained eye can spot the difference (mimicking formatting is proving hard) the key task of getting these links to colour and hover correctly worked like a charm. Using specificity seemed key to success here (thank you, Khan Academy CSS Specificity). While I'm sure it would be more beneficial to up my class game, using definitions such as ol li { } gave me the right amount of control.

I've pasted the code I made for this into a Paste Bin (also included below) for anyone to nosey at. I'm happy enough for now, but that's still not happy enough. I will integrate this mini-project into my main code and go from there.

 

Hello World

I recently uncovered that I started coding in my teenage years. Coding is a loose term for it, but it was using code nonetheless. Specifically HTML. It all started with an Avril Lavigne fan-page, which featured far more animated .gifs than is ever necessary. I would make a lot of little sites and blogs within different hosting sites and append, modify and implement my own code.

While it hardly stretched beyond copy and paste and adding a few of my own <strike> and <button> tags here and there, I was still playing with advanced tools to help reconstruct my websites to how I wanted them to be. 

Never once did I realise that the tools I were using were HTML. I've recently reinitialised that fire for web development and wish to study HTML and CSS, eventually moving on to JavaScript and whatever next.

This blog is designed to document my progress, learnings and findings. Having just completed the Intro to HTML/CSS: Making Web Pages on Khan Academy, I feel like I'm just about equipped enough to try my hand at evaluating and reconstructing existing websites. Just. 

The Khan Academy course is an amazing course to kickstart your HTML/CSS education.