Small Web September Check-In 5: Wrap-Up!

[enchantedsleeper]

And now, the end is near... And so I face the final check-in... 🎶

It's already time for our very last check-in for Small Web September!

If you can believe it, we're already on the last day of Small Web September. How is everyone doing? Maybe you feel super organised and productive and have hit every single one of your goals - or maybe you feel like there simply hasn't been enough time in the month to do what you wanted to do. (I feel you 100%). Maybe it's somewhere in the middle!

Whatever your status, congrats on getting to this point and for taking part in the challenge! Even if you feel like you didn't hit enough of your goals, setting out to do something new with your small web project(s) is awesome on its own. Taking part in the comments and community around SWS is excellent! (I'm totally unbiased with this one, of course :D) Or maybe you're making plans for what you can accomplish when your schedule lets up a bit.

Here are some questions to use for this check-in:

• What did you work on during Small Web September?
• What's next for your small web plans? Where will you go from here?

This is the fifth of five ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event, but there’s no cut-off point for leaving comments on these. You can add something at any time, and you don’t need to comment on every one or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide, but all discussion is welcome.

In a few days, I'll also post a feedback post where people can share how they found the challenge and maybe give some thoughts on the next iteration (which, all being well, I'd love to run again!). Thank you all for taking part and making this a fantastic challenge! I hope you've enjoyed it <3

For our previous check-in around troubleshooting and problem-solving, go here: Small Web September Check-In 4: Troubleshooting

Comments

[lumiosecity]

What did you work on during Small Web September?

I scrabbled through trying to build a site, borked it up immensely, started from scratch, borked it up immensely and started from scratch again, and haven’t been able to touch it in the past week due to Unprecedented Weather Events that luckily haven’t caused personal harm to anything but my internet connection.

So I guess what I worked on can best be described as learning. I worked on learning. I broke things and trawled forums for hours to fix them, I figured out how tabbed pages work from a cool YouTube video, I’m going to touch up on flexbox as soon as I can because I think it’s the magic bullet to finally make things work how I want— I learned a lot, really, and it was a fun experience. This event was the exact push I needed to find a new hobby.

What's next for your small web plans? Where will you go from here?

I’ll make the website for real this time, that’s what I’ll do! Maybe share some original writing or a shrine to some of my blorbos. And then… I have plans to learn about how to implement JavaScript for little things, so that’s going to be fun!

Thank you so much for running this event, I had a great time.

[alaterdate]

Ooh! Thanks for that video. I created something like tabs using an iframe, I had no idea you could do it with radio buttons.

That's something I like about site making too, is that I'm always learning something new and experimenting with what can work. It's a fun hobby for sure!

[enchantedsleeper]

Breaking things is essential to the learning process! I'm glad that you've able to do some productive borking ;D And that you had fun doing it!

This event was the exact push I needed to find a new hobby.

That's so cool to hear! <333

Thank you so much for running this event, I had a great time.

Ahhh, you're welcome, and thank you for taking part! Good luck with getting your site up and running once the Weather passes 🍀