Currently working on:
- Rebuilding the site foundation
- Creating art for site elements
- Creating more structered development plan
- Learning HTML and CSS
- Brainstorming design elements
Hi! my name is Dylan, and I like to learn. I have many interests I'd like to share and topics I'd like to voice my thoughts about. One of these interests happens to be programming. I have been watching videos about computer science and the like for over a decade, but only now have I finally bit the bullet and started to learn how to make things myself.
You've likely noticed that there is no styling as of yet. This will change as I learn more about HTML and CSS (which I haven't even touched yet lol). I will also be keeping a change log in order to keep track of my progress over time. I plan for this site to contain anything and everything that I want it to, so be prepared for a wide variety of things and varying knowledge levels. Thanks for stopping by!
So, even with the site having almost nothing on it, my code has already become an unmanageable mess for various reasons. I did my best to keep it neat and organized, but I didn't have any concrete plans for my goals with the site's layout and functionality so it's all a bit chaotic. Add to that my very rudimentary understanding of basic coding principles, I have made a codebase with built-in Russian Roulette. Any time I try to clean it up, something breaks and I have no idea why. Every change I make leads to an hour of troubleshooting at least, which is a huge drag. I figured out where to get an offline code editing software and watched an excellent introduction to HTML that had a lot of advice about organization and best practice, so I am going to completely rewrite the code on this site to better line up with those standards and make it easier to modify down the line.
This might seem like a really silly thing to do this early on, but I think I'm making the right call. Thankfully, I realized that this was going to spiral out of control only four days into the project, so there isn't that much to fix here. Imagine if I'd realized this months in; the amount of work required down the line to clean up code with such a messy foundation would be astronomical. I've also got a layout and the HTML structure for it all planned out this time, which will hopefully prevent me from having to do any major restructuring down the line (fingers crossed on that one).
I'm going to leave this page up until I finish the new framework. I'll update the "Currently working on" list as I think to do so, no guarantees on its accuracy.
This is my first time trying to learn any type of coding, so please be gentle!