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Posted by Shaun Edwards
Shaun Edwards
3,065 Points

Any Advice , Struggling to concentrate

Any Advice on any of this would be great

I'm really struggling to concentrate and focus on things for instance i'm trying my hardest to get a website built but am finding it hard getting it to look the way i would like as i don't seem to take in much of the css styles and i know cheat sheets are available and goggle is a awesome tool but even with those i seem to struggle which is becoming annoying as i've had a passion for webdesign since i was 10 and really want to know how to progress

Thanks in advance

2 Answers

Aurelio Decock
Aurelio Decock
14,607 Points
Aurelio Decock
Aurelio Decock
14,607 Points

Hey Shaun

I found myself in the same situation, I started some projects but never finshed them. The thing is that you should keep working on 1 thing at the time. This way it's alot easier to maintain your concentration.

Lets say you want to build your portfolio website. You can check some portfolio sites that are online right now, I find alot of inspiration on pintrest but maybe you got some other sources to find yours. So once you're busy checking out those website you should note what you like about it, maybe it's the grid, the colors, large images, ... once you found those elements you can try to work on your own, start designing it in photoshop, illustrator, experience design, ... Only and only if you're happy with the design, you should start coding. Make the website static at first and once it's complete you can can add some dynamic elements into it such as hover effects, parallax, ...

This is my way of working nowadays and it's working pretty well.

Shaun Edwards
Shaun Edwards
3,065 Points

Thank you i currently do work on one site at a time the main thing im struggling with is how to start the css is their a best practice to get in the habit of doing but your advice is very helpful aswell and has given me an idea of where to start designing thanks for that

Aurelio Decock
Aurelio Decock
14,607 Points

Hey again Shaun, sorry for the late response. I'm not the greatest css'er around but I usually start with writing the html (Duhh) and style 1 section at the time, so I split the website or app in different parts and style them bit by bit, for example:

I've got a navbar that should be sticky on the top, so i'll start writing the css for the navbar since that's the first element on the website. I make the logo go to the left, the nav items on the right, add position fixed to the wrapper of the nav and the navbar is set. Then I move on to the header image and so on...

I hope this kind of helped you

Shaun Edwards
Shaun Edwards
3,065 Points
Shaun Edwards
Shaun Edwards
3,065 Points

That's a great help thank you