The Software Engineer Saga - CSS : The makeup of HTML

This past week was such a rush. I was offshore working like crazy, and also studying like crazy. I wanted to complete my personal portfolio and put it online even without having anything to post. And I did:

https://ggomesneto.github.io/

It is amazing how, after you understand how to read/write code, things come easy. At first, it was a mess to understand how to edit each part of the HTML code, but after I understood how to move each image/text, change colors or font-sizes, everything was fitting where it was supposed to be.

It was a funny thing to realize that I am kind of a perfectionist on how I want things to look like. I changed colors so many times and had to search online for so many ways of getting things the way I wanted that I even put on the site a "trial and error count" that, even tough is not actually counting how many times I updated the site, reflects the time I put to make everything the way it is.

CSS is your friend if you want to make something look nice. And it is not difficult. You just need to say "hey, I want the item with a class name of xxx to have a background color of yellow", and CSS does the work for you. So, I just started saying that I was applying some makeup to my code.

Today is my first day at the Career Track program on Springboard. Everything I learned until now was just eh preparation course, so I expect that this site will receive a lot of new stuff in the next couple of weeks.

Next week I`ll talk about how you can use JavaScript to modify your code. I used it to create my menu buttons, the slide Show on the first page and I`ll probably use for ever in my software engineering career. See you then!