Recently I've been feeling that I'm growing out of touch with a lot of the newer coding standards out there. Last time I coded a website from scratch was 9 years ago! That's just crazy. So I'm all about making myself better and making myself more marketable. The fact my old website is so dated (gosh, 2006 is dated...) due to the fact I haven't updated it in such a long time, I had to do something. So why not relearn how to make a website again, but more learn the newer concepts out there. With HTML 5 being the standard, I've seen how HTML has changed since I last touched it. It's definitely a little bit easier and more straight forward, but CSS is still a beast.
So I was perusing the web and stumbled on Dash. It's a free site that has little projects to build websites and learn the basics of website design. It looked promising and well I started today. I love it. It's pretty basic right now but I do like the step by step nature, clear slides, and knowledge checkpoints where you can code and see the output of what you're doing all at the same time.
There are 5 projects and I'm looking forward to doing the rest!
If you're interested in trying it out, here's the site for Dash:
https://dash.generalassemb.ly/
Here's the outcome of Project 1:
https://dash.generalassemb.ly/caroleners/build-your-own-personal-website
After this, I feel like learning Adobe and Photoshop might be the next step.
