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smallwebWooooah, we’re halfway there,
Wooo-ooah! (Lemon on a pe-ear!)
*ahem* We’re at the halfway point for Small Web September already!
If you’re wondering where the heck last two weeks went, you’re not alone – but don’t despair. There’s still loads of time for small webbing!
This is our ‘How’s it going?’ halfway point check-in, where you can share your SWS progress if you’d like to and compare notes with your goals at the beginning of the challenge. Has anything unexpected come up as you’ve worked on your small web project(s)? Are you focusing on the things you thought you would, or have you found some new side quests to go on?
Here are a couple of question prompts you can use for this check-in:
• What have you been working on so far for SWS?
• Are you focused on the same things you outlined in your goals, or have you found yourself doing something different?
• What are you looking to work on next?
As a reminder, this is the third of five ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event – you can check out the schedule and dates for these posts in the event intro post. There’s no cut-off point for leaving comments on these, so you can add something at any time – you also don’t need to comment on every one or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide, but all discussion is welcome.
To find our last check-in post and browse through all of the awesome resources and recs, go here: Small Web September Check-In 2: Recs and Resources
Wooo-ooah! (Lemon on a pe-ear!)
*ahem* We’re at the halfway point for Small Web September already!
If you’re wondering where the heck last two weeks went, you’re not alone – but don’t despair. There’s still loads of time for small webbing!
This is our ‘How’s it going?’ halfway point check-in, where you can share your SWS progress if you’d like to and compare notes with your goals at the beginning of the challenge. Has anything unexpected come up as you’ve worked on your small web project(s)? Are you focusing on the things you thought you would, or have you found some new side quests to go on?
Here are a couple of question prompts you can use for this check-in:
• What have you been working on so far for SWS?
• Are you focused on the same things you outlined in your goals, or have you found yourself doing something different?
• What are you looking to work on next?
As a reminder, this is the third of five ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event – you can check out the schedule and dates for these posts in the event intro post. There’s no cut-off point for leaving comments on these, so you can add something at any time – you also don’t need to comment on every one or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide, but all discussion is welcome.
To find our last check-in post and browse through all of the awesome resources and recs, go here: Small Web September Check-In 2: Recs and Resources
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Date: 2024-09-14 11:44 pm (UTC)What have you been working on so far for SWS?
Learning very quickly that I do not have the skill set to scrounge up a webpage from scratch, for one. Right now I’m using a template from sadgrl.online’s layout builder to fiddle about, but I’m not sure if I’m satisfied with it— I’m going to poke around and look at templates and see what I can come up with.
I am also beating my stylesheet with a mallet. I cannot fathom the concept as well as I’d like, and I have spent the better half of a week arguing with the process of making it work, which it still doesn’t. This, of course, is entirely my fault because I know next to nothing about CSS and even though I’m knee-deep in resources, I’m not a particularly fast learner.
It’s been fantastic, and I do mean that genuinely. Frustrating, of course, but fantastic.
Are you focused on the same things you outlined in your goals, or have you found yourself doing something different?
My main goal was to have something vaguely resembling a website at the end of this, which I am steadily chipping away at. I did not expect to go to war with my stylesheet though— I’ve only done inline CSS in the past and was kind of hoping I could brute force my way through a website without rigging up a stylesheet at all.
It would be awful and tedious to do that for each individual page, though, if my stylesheet has taught me anything.
What are you looking to work on next?
I want to figure out the basics of a template and stylesheet, as previously discussed, and then I want to fill out my index page some, make it look like a proper home instead of having globs of lorem ipsum all over the couch cushions.
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Date: 2024-09-15 02:09 pm (UTC)What exactly are you having trouble with? In-line CSS and CSS files follow the same rules/tags 🤔
Stylesheets is pretty much simply giving names to your divs/boxes. Instead of telling how a div has to look directly on the HTML, you write "div class=cool" and then writte down on the stylesheet how ".cool" has to look.
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Date: 2024-09-15 02:47 pm (UTC)Mostly, though, I’m beating it with a mallet in the sense of “okay, 2px borders— that doesn’t look right, never mind” or “alright, add this color here— oh, jeez, that’s way more green than it is blue”; I’ve got a decently clear vision of how I’d like this to look but the execution is a little fiddly.
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Date: 2024-09-15 04:16 pm (UTC)Some browsers are picky on how you link the fonts, so I always like to put them between qotation marks, both the font name and its source link.
On weights, every font should accept the usual "bold" and "lighter" variables, but if you want to give it a specific weight (300/700/etc) I'm pretty sure you have to download and add its weights as separate fonts (if said font has them avaible).
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Date: 2024-09-15 06:27 pm (UTC)