One more bug fixed: the Blog page’s navigation bar can be now toggled in mobile devices. Yippee!
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Git
I’ve finally overcome my fear of the Command Line & set up my very own Git repo at https://bitbucket.org/imbjim. I’ve even dared to make branches and merge them with the master branch. Crazy, isn’t it?
P.S. Thanks Skillcrush for the Git classes!
La Galeria
I published a few days ago my photo gallery at http://imbjim.com/photo-gallery.html. I’m as far from being an accomplished photographer as one can be, but most of these photos are something I’m proud of.
For anyone who might be interested, here are the places the photos were taken:
– Belgium: Bruges, Brussels & Leuven.
– Denmark: Copenhagen.
– England: Barton Mills, Beck Row, Cambridge & London.
– Finland: Espoo, Hanko, Helsinki, Jyväskylä, Kauniainen, Somero & Torronsuo National Park.
– Ireland: Galway & Aran Islands.
– Italy: Rome.
– Luxemburg: Vianden.
– Northern Ireland: Rathlin Island.
– Portugal: Lisbon.
One more thing fixed
The contact form of my static site didn’t look that great in Firefox. Now that’s fixed, too. If there are any more bugs, I’ll let them be for a while: time to get back to my web dev and front end dev courses.
Fixin’ frenzy
Bugs fixed in the last few days: mobile and tablet screen layout problems solved for http://imbjim.com, http://imbjim.com/clean-code and http://imbjim.com/bjimusic. Have I been efficient or what (okay, in some of the cases rather effective than efficient)?
When I set up my static website (i.e. http://imbjim.com) I didn’t know anything about media queries, but now that I know how to change CSS depending on the screen size these fixes were trivial though time-consuming. Anyway it seems that taking the Skillcrush courses mentioned in my September 1 post did pay off after all! I’m wiser, so much wiser ; – )
P.S. About my September 9 post: apparently using Bootstrap doesn’t necessarily guarantee that your website will look perfect in any screen sizes either… Ah, the wonders of the world!
My first non-Bootstrap responsive website
Tada, here it is:
It’s basically a Skillcrush class project where I was given the basic HTML5/CSS3 ingredients and then I just went through all the 8 pages of the website and tried to figure out how to make them look acceptable in mobile, tablet and desktop view.
The project taught me a lot about floating divs, ems, using percentages instead of pixels and especially about how hard it is to make a responsive website from scratch or almost scratch, without using any framework like Bootstrap.
I’m most certainly stating the obvious, but hey, I’m a newbie, so I’m allowed to: the cons to this method is that there are still plenty of devices and/or device orientations there (according to http://responsivedesignchecker.com at least Nexus7 portrait and iPhone landscape) in which the website looks ah so imperfect. The pro is that you can come up with websites that are out of the (Bootstrap) box.
School’s in
After finishing my WordPress project (i.e. building this site) at the beginning of August I’ve been busy attending these two Skillcrush online courses:
https://skillcrush.com/blueprint/front-end-developer/
https://skillcrush.com/blueprint/web-developer/
If all goes well by the end of October I’ll be so much wiser web & front-end development-wise…
One step forward
An exercise in Bootstrap 4: http://imbjim.com/clean-code
Identity
Oh, the irony: http://bit.ly/2b4biCR
Oh happy day!
After a month or so of heroic struggle slash hell of a rollercoaster I’ve finally set up my first WordPress website. All thanks to Brad Hussey’s Bootstrap to WordPress course, to the student (especially Ravindra Foolheea’s and Eric Korber’s) comments of the course and, yes, also to the mostly frustrating yet sometimes rewarding detective work on the web. I know there are still plenty of things to fix and improve, but now it’s time to celebrate. Halleluyah!