{"id":146,"date":"2010-03-24T23:23:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T05:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/?p=146"},"modified":"2010-03-24T23:23:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T05:23:30","slug":"learning-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/learning-so-far","title":{"rendered":"Learning so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far this semester has been much of a refresher for me, a chance to put some of my skills to use.\u00a0 However after receiving my <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">excellent<\/span> feedback regarding my xhtml+css pre-assessment, I was shown a couple of ways to do things differently.<\/p>\n<p>I originally learned to build webpages back when tables were all that was available for controlling your layout.\u00a0 After css came out, I sort of fell out of the loop for a while.\u00a0 I struggled for some time to get css to behave the way I wanted.\u00a0 I finally am getting a good handle on how to implement css pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>The feedback from my pre-assess was very helpful, there were a few &#8216;ugly&#8217; mistakes I had made.\u00a0 After reviewing the pre-assess I turned around and implemented the suggested alternatives, and of course they worked quite well.\u00a0 It took a little tweaking of my overall stylesheet to get everything to work out cleanly, but I was able to reproduce the same, if not better, look.\u00a0 I had used comic sans as a font, because I was struggling to find a font that would duplicate the design appearance.\u00a0 However, a quick replace with Verdana, leaving it with the font style of italic, produced the results I wanted.<\/p>\n<p>I am really appreciating having involved online instructors.\u00a0 Taking classes online is always a challenge in it&#8217;s own right, it&#8217;s great to have good instructor support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far this semester has been much of a refresher for me, a chance to put some of my skills to use.\u00a0 However after receiving my excellent feedback regarding my xhtml+css pre-assessment, I was shown a couple of ways to do things differently. I originally learned to build webpages back when tables were all that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}