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CSS

Lucia Berocay
Lucia Berocay
2,951 Points
Posted by Lucia Berocay
Lucia Berocay
2,951 Points

Anyone else do really well during the lessons and practice, but are lost working on your own project?

I'm doing the front end development track. I feel really confident during the lessons and I feel like I'm really learning and understanding. I'm trying to create a simple website on my own on the side as practice, but when I open up the workspace I'm using with a goal in mind I am just at a loss with no idea how to do what I want to do, even if it's something that was covered during the lessons. It's not the HTML that's hard for me but CSS, It's extremely discouraging. I don't know if the issue is my retention of the information or what. I can follow a step by step of how to do something like create a navigation bar but I would have no clue how to do it on my own. Anyone else experience this and overcome it?

MFrank Johnson
MFrank Johnson
5,040 Points

Sounds like you might be skipping the challenges in the CSS course(s). Have you been completing those?

lpohl
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lpohl
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 8,420 Points

Perhaps you need help with the design portion? Have you thought about trying to code a homepage that already exists? What's nice about this kind of exercise is you can use your browser's dev tools to see the actual HTML, CSS, and JS if you get stuck.

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Joshua Hooper
Joshua Hooper
4,300 Points
Joshua Hooper
Joshua Hooper
4,300 Points

I struggled with this on my first few projects. What worked for me is, when you feel lost on a project, go back and watch videos again for what you feel lost on while you're building said project. It will reinforce the lessons in a different way when you start to build projects. Don't be discouraged to go back and watch a few times while working on the project. The first step is knowing what a hammer is, 2nd step is knowing how to use your hammer to build a house.