Week #2
How am I going to apply this knowledge on web development?
I'm going to build a website for my father's small business. His current one, in my opinion is insufficiently appealing and if it's in my power, I'd like to change that. Now it's going to be a long work in progress and I'm going to need to crank a lot of hours into learning and actually coding, but I think I can pull it off.
It's a transit service company, so I will have to implement schedule pages, policy pages, and a method to set reservations (and link it to an email). I'll reference and emulate the websites of large transportation businesses like Greyhound as I go along. What I aim to do here is not make a blog site with just text and minimal interactivity, but a practical website with heavy utility. Looking pretty far ahead, I can also move on to making a mobile site because I've noticed the poor formatting of my dad's current site on a smartphone browser. Furthermore, it'll be an ongoing project. One that I'll have to maintain, update, and improve upon. It's not simply learning HTML coding, but in my opinion (in this modern era of technology), a necessary life skill. Of course there are professionals, of which I've talked with, but there hefty prices of $600-1000 for just a "decent" website is rather off-putting. At the same time, if they are actually justified in charges these rates, I'm sure the task ahead of me is going to be a rocky road.
From what I've learned about HTML coding so far, it's based on a very technical and logical flow but there's a bunch of nooks and crannies for me to discover and implement. Even once I understand how the whole shebang works, I am still going to need to acquaint myself with the nearly endless list of tags, attributes, and so much more. Still, I'm in this for good now, and I'm going to make the most out of this. Whether the website comes out gorgeously or unusable, it'll be a nice little milestone to my journey towards web developing.