Summer Site 2019

Week 6

July 19, 2019

This week is the very last week of summer school! Personally, I'm pretty happy with how it went, but it's sad that it's all over already. I know I said this for the past few weeks, but I really mean it this time. This week has to have been the easist, most relaxed week so far. We had half a class of free time every day! We mainly did some minor edits on our websites and finished off anything we hadn't completed. I also got to look at my contrast and check that my html and css worked well and was accurate using a few checking websites. I also had the opportunity to submit an adobe XD prototype to one of the contests we had in class. The last thing we did this week, and in this course, was an awards ceremony and a short review on what we did in the past six weeks and how to do it again if we ever want to create another website in the future.

Week 5

July 12, 2019

This week was very fun. We mainly worked on Adobe XD making custom UI designs. I added some of my UI designs onto my website homepage using Fancybox 3 as a lesson of Design patterns. I also got to finish spacing my Escape! novella using h4s. I also created a few logos that I may use for my website and took some pictures that I may use for my home page hero. This week, in comparison to the last few weeks, was pretty easy and simple, as well as a lot of fun, since we were mainly focused on customization.

Week 4

July 5, 2019

This week was pretty laid back and fun. We mainly edited our adobe XD prototypes. I thought this week was especially fun because it was almost like using CSS in the sense that it was just customization but it was much easier. I got to make my own impossible quiz on my XD file, which was pretty fun. It was like the quizzes I would make with Reece on notability but this one is actually programmed to work with clicking. A few of my friends beat the quiz and "outsmarted Deli-Aisle" after trying for a while. It was really fun to create it since it was really easy and a nice way to see the kind of variety of things you can do with Adobe XD. I created the quiz by making subpages with questions and linking them each to the next question. Every wrong answer was linked to a YOU LOSE! page.

Week 3

June 28, 2019

This week, we focused on adobe. I started editing images in photoshop and then went on to edit a summer logo I created in adobe illustrstor. I also got to try to create many customizable web page prototypes in Adobe XD. One of my favorites was the creepy turtle, haha. I also made one with a pig and a bird. I thought it was fun to try different designs with my website.

Week 2

June 21, 2019

This week, i started to personalize my website with more CSS. I also created my subpages: About and Blog. I also am thinking of adding another subpage sometime soon and maybe put some writing there. I created my lists in the about page and the blogs you are reading now. I think the hardest part was adding all the links to the About page using HTML. Considering that this was a mainly CSS-based week, I used a surprisingly large amount of HTML work to make my website have more content. I finished my lists this week and added more color to the website. Now, instead of just having pink and green as my colors, I added a color called "Rebecca Purple" for my font (if my lovely friend, Becky is reading this, I chose this color for you!). I also made a header and footer for my website, which makes it easy to go from page to page in my website.

Week 1

June 14, 2019

This week, I created the very start of my website. I started off with very little knowledge about coding and ended up with a live, working website. I was able to try out the basics of HTML and CSS for the first time. I started by making a readme on github and synced my work into VS code. I created my main homepage. I learned the basics of how to make an unordered list and an ordered list and created the favorites lists on my homepage. A lot of this week was just setting up and getting used to writing different types of code. Out of everything I learned and tried in this first week, I enjoyed learning and starting to try CSS the most. We actually had to do the CSS twice because the first time we did the CSS as part of the HTML file. The second time, we gave the CSS its own file. At the end of the week, I ended up with a one-page, green and pink gradient website.