blog post
Written by Cole Campbell Tuesday, 10 February 2009 11:57
i empathize with jr, remembering all of the variants and modifications of css is difficult, but i feel like at this point in our career as web designers that is not nearly as important as understanding why we are doing things and why things happen. plus, we take notes so that we can look back at them. im still struggling with div, class, and id specifications. i find myself not knowing when to use them outside of the practice situations learning web design has layed out for us. these mostly came up in floating and positioning, so i guess that technically i am having the most trouble with floating and positioning; not so much how to do it though, but why it is done that way.
as far as link posting, i think the main problem right now is that i am learning from a text which, while having several advantages, has a disadvantage in the sense that it cannot answer specific questions i have that are generated from its examples. i feel that you (my instructor) can clear this up for me in about ten minutes whereas i would be endlessly searching forums for my answer otherwise, so i believe that person to person instruction is my best bet to improvement.