This morning I had my first coding workshop. I didn’t know what to expect as I am not a big fan of coding and was convinced that I wouldn’t know what was going on or what to do.
We were taught the basics of HTML, CSS in the software Code through adding text and images to out site. Experimenting with text size, paragraphs and images. The tutor taught us that when images are in their own file, you must make reference to the file name and image name in the code, for it to show up on the site. Often I would get the spelling wrong as I was writing what should have been ‘color’ as colour, and then would wonder why nothing had changed when I would refresh the site. Learning HTML and CSS proved that you can’t afford to make small mistakes like forgetting a character or misspelling a word. It therefore had to constantly check and reread my code multiple times whoever something would go wrong or the change I coded for wouldn’t happen on the site.
Much to my surprise I feel like the workshop went quite well. I was able to follow the tutor through every step and didn’t hesitate to ask for help. I was pleased that when I would add code and refresh the site, what I had coded would happen or show up.
Towards the end of the coding session we had 20 minuted to experiment and play with the software on our own. I decided to go onto https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_emojis.asp to add an emoji to my page. Although it was something so simple, I realised that using this website could help with my other projects and maybe even in WordPress!