Learning Journal 5
This week was mostly focused on learning about linking. For learning more about linking we needed to build some pages on our server. This involved the file use of NetBeans.
On Monday, I forgot to bring my laptop to class. I took diligent notes for me to do the work at home. The next day that we had class, Wednesday, I brought my laptop to class and got to work. When I started up NetBeans, I had thought that the program was not configured correctly. I thought this because on the left side I did not have a directory of my server. I then cleared the current configuration and followed the tutorial the best I could. The left side of the program was still not showing a directory of the server.
I then asked the class TA what was going on. Come to find out I misunderstood how the program work. I found out that the program works locally and does not work on the server side of things. The moment that you click run, the files and folders are created and then uploaded on the server. Once I understood this, the program made more sense as a tool to help organize things for web project.
Another cool part of my learning experience this week happened in relation to my website. In class about a week ago, we learned about looking at the source code of a site. As I have been developing my own personal portfolio website, I have needed to make tweaks to the Wordpress theme that I have been using.
For example, on my site (www.leelovell.com) there are two content areas underneath the main slider in their correct position. Previously there were three and I was able to use some provided code to remove the third one. Once I had done that, the two remain were in their positions all the way to the left. With no provided code to help center those two and some limited knowledge of CSS, I inspected the source code.
With the use of Chrome, I was able to click on the particular content area and then once I did that, I was able to look at the applied style. Studying and analyzing the applicable style code, I was able to figure out what I code I needed to modify to make the site look the way I wanted it too. It was almost like solving a puzzle and I really enjoyed it.