I recently finished the HTML and CSS lessons on Learn.co, and I felt like I needed some practice before moving on. I decided to create a personal website that I can use as a resume when I start my job hunt. Spoiler Alert: I didn’t finish it. I blame this partly on a huge mistake I made! I knew I needed to practice my HTML and CSS skills, but I didn’t really think about (or research, or look back at the Web Fundamentals lessons for) the right steps to plan a website before I just started writing the code. So in this blog, I’ll look at the steps I took in creating my website, and how I would do it better next time.
I’m 30. I’ve been working in a career for a while. I have a Masters in Environmental Studies that I’m not putting to good use. Why move away from those skills to start learning something new and challenging?