Friday, April 15, 2016

Day 221: Completed and Deployed My Portfolio Site!

All right, I've been doing some modifications to the code today, nothing major so far, but I noticed that the little notepad in the upper left of the image was a bit too light to provide a good contrast with the white text above it in my introduction text on my "Home" page.

So, I went back to my Photoshop skills, targeted the notebook and added some shade to it, to increase the contrast.  Here's the before, it's fine, but it could be better:


And here's the after (note the increased shade on the notebook in the upper left, it's a subtle addition, but it's there).



Much better.  Those screenshots are from a PC, because I keep a newer PC around to do cross-browser testing (for testing IE, Opera, Firefox, and Chrome on a PC).  The site actually looked fine on the Mac browsers, but when I tested it on IE, I felt there wasn't enough contrast, so this helps.   

It actually looks much better live than in the screenshot, if you click on the screenshot, the window that opens up is a better representation of the actual look. 

I darkened it a little bit more and smoothed out the edges, just to finish that up.


Now the contrast is much better.  Good stuff.

I finished the modal window for the "Contact" section, I kept this section very simple:


Cool. 

I'll have to get my CodePen projects up to GitHub sometime soon, I'll make a day of it.  I'm actually really enjoying working in a local environment, as opposed to CodePen.  Now, CodePen's great, but working in a local environment has its benefits too, there's no lag, ever, any updates you make are instantaneous.  Also, it's better practice for the actual working environment, which is most definitely not on CodePen, an actual work environment will require meta tags and links to many other files.

I went through my portfolio pieces again, this time I cleaned up the HTML a bit.  I'll have to go back and leave good notes on the JavaScript code sometime soon, since at the time I coded many of the projects, I wasn't as aware as I am now about how important notes are.

All right, it's time to deploy the site so I can get it critiqued.  

I stayed up quite late.  BUT, it's done, it's at www.adamcamacho.com:



Sweet!

Now I've got to think tomorrow about what comes next.  I'll also see if I can get some critique on it, just in case I missed anything.   


SUMMARY OF CODING SKILLS 
Books:                                                                                               Status
"Head First HTML and CSS," by E. Robson & E. Freeman                      Complete
"A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript," by Mark Myers                          Complete
"HTML and CSS," by Jon Duckett                                                        Complete
"JavaScript and JQuery," by Jon Duckett                                            Complete
Team Treehouse (Front End Web Dev Track Complete):                    Status
How to Make a Website                                                                     Complete
HTML                                                                                                Complete
HTML Forms                                                                                      Complete
HTML Tables                                                                                     Complete
HTML Video and Audio                                                                       Complete
CSS Foundations                                                                                Complete
CSS Basics                                                                                         Complete
CSS Layout Techniques                                                                      Complete
CSS Layout Basics                                                                              Complete
CSS Selectors                                                                                     Complete
Responsive Layouts                                                                            Complete
CSS Flexbox Layout                                                                            Complete
Framework Basics (Bootstrap and Foundation)                                    Complete
Git Basics                                                                                          Complete
Console Foundations                                                                          Complete
Introduction to Programming                                                              Complete
JavaScript Basics                                                                               Complete
JavaScript Loops, Arrays, & Objects                                                   Complete
AJAX Basics                                                                                       Complete
JQuery Basics                                                                                    Complete
Interactive Web Pages With JavaScript                                               Complete
Object-Oriented JavaScript                                                                Complete 
Accessibility                                                                                      Complete
Website Optimization                                                                        Complete
Front End Performance Optimization                                                  Complete
Aesthetic Foundations                                                                        Complete                 
Design Foundations                                                                            Complete  
Adobe Photoshop Foundations                                                            Complete
Adobe Illustrator Foundations                                                      66% Complete

Other Courses:                                                                                     Status
HTML and CSS (Codecademy)                                                               Complete
Introduction to Web Dev (The Odin Project)                                         Complete
Web Dev 101 (The Odin Project)                                                    33% Complete

Free Code Camp (FCC)                                                                           Status
1. Get Started with Free Code Camp                                                     Complete
2. HTML5 and CSS                                                                                 Complete
3. Responsive Design with Bootstrap                                                      Complete
4. Gear up for Success                                                                          Complete
5. jQuery                                                                                             Complete

6. Basic Front End Development Projects                                              Complete
7. Basic JavaScript                                                                                Complete
8. Object Oriented and Functional Programming                                    Complete
9. Basic Algorithm Scripting                                                                   Complete

10. JSON API's and Ajax                                                                         Complete
11. Intermediate Front End Development Projects                                  Complete
12. Intermediate Algorithm Scripting                                                     Complete
13. Advanced Front End Development Projects                                       Complete
14. Claim Your Front End Development Certificate                              Complete

The Coding Boot Camp at UT Austin                                              Status (starts 4/19/2016)
Week 1-6: Mastering the Browser (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery) 
Week 7-10: API & JSON (RESTful API"s, parsing JSON, AJAX)
Week 11-14: Server Side (Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB)
Week 15-18: PHP (WordPress, CodeIgniter, Laravel) 
Week 18-21: Full Stack Coding
Week 22-24: Final Project

CodePen Projects: http://codepen.io/Adancode/
GitHub Projects: https://github.com/Adancode
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcamacho1
Team Treehouse Profile: https://teamtreehouse.com/adamcamacho
Free Code Camp Profile: http://www.freecodecamp.com/adancode

Hours Spent Coding Today: 7.5
Total Hours Coding: 1,167

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