I just had a girl in my web publishing class shriek with glee because she had successfully changed the HTML in her website to make the colors on her page uniform.
I told her (and all of them) that what she had just experienced was 95% of learning to code (or learning anything else, for that matter). You have to break it apart, look inside, figure out which pieces do what, and fiddle with it (in this case, the code) until you make it do what you want.
Happy moments.
Their assignment was to find a website that they liked, mimic the layout as closely as they could while using a free webhosting service, and then start embedding their own content. You can look at all of their (infant) sites at this MentorMob list: bit.ly/dtpcopycat
I told her (and all of them) that what she had just experienced was 95% of learning to code (or learning anything else, for that matter). You have to break it apart, look inside, figure out which pieces do what, and fiddle with it (in this case, the code) until you make it do what you want.
Happy moments.
Their assignment was to find a website that they liked, mimic the layout as closely as they could while using a free webhosting service, and then start embedding their own content. You can look at all of their (infant) sites at this MentorMob list: bit.ly/dtpcopycat
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