Wrapup

Key Takeaways

the brewery site is done what it's not what if you're right it's not responsive and the carousel yeah the carousel carousel wasn't the best was it yes I know it's not done done but it's done as in I'm done with it it's not that I like leaving things unfinished in reality I really I hate leaving the unfinished but this has been dragging on for a long time it was supposed to be one design video and one coding video and as you might or as you do know because if you're watching this I'm assuming you watch the whole thing it's turned into seven coding videos now and it's just really dragging you and the other thing is I got this really cool email from I'm gonna say your name wrong and I apologize gay a tree P and well let's take a look right here at with um Jerry at tree can I call you Gary gay a tree did and he emailed this to me way back like a long time ago when I think I was on like the second coding video and what he did is he forked what I'd originally created the the starter file and he did it himself he took it on him on his own to coated up and make this cool site and it's responsive and the carousel on it man it puts mine to shame and and I think that's really awesome that on his own he did this just as a challenge to himself and seeing what he did with it and what he was able to do with it without even following my videos he did this just just for fun he put it all together sent me an email just to say hey check this out I did this maybe you'd be interested in seeing it and I was super happy that he did it's really really cool now as far as this this is a recap video I want to look back at this and mostly talk about what I would have done differently because yeah there are things I would have done differently the first obvious one is the carousel the carousel just doesn't look very nice I started off thinking about this idea of using the grid in this way a while ago and I made a code pen just with some colored blocks and it was like just these different shades of color and it cycled through just like this one and I liked what it looked like with the colored blocks no text it looked pretty nice it was kind of cool so I assumed it would work and it was just a complete failure as far as I'm concerned if this was something I was building for a client I would have just had to have scrapped the whole thing and found a different solution because it didn't really give the proper effect that we were after another thing while I was watch are editing my videos and it's really cool when you edit your videos because you see all the mistakes you're making and actually speaking of mistakes another thing before I get to what I wanted to say just there remind me a lot of you guys give comments saying that you like my style and then I don't edit out my mistakes you like seeing that I'm how I fix things and that I'm not a robot and that everybody makes mistakes and so I I do appreciate that you like that I think this series was a little rougher around the edges more so than usual I was going back into the code changing things in the markup coming back into my thing realizing that wasn't working going back adding classes changing the markup again maybe a little bit more realistic if you're a complete beginner maybe a little bit too much back and forth I do like leaving in my mistakes leave all of them in if only you knew how many mistakes I actually made because there's a few more than what I you you normally see or how long sometimes it takes to fix them but I think it's important that you see that there's mistakes in there and so I like that you like that but normally I'm gonna go for a little bit more polished I'm still gonna keep that with my videos but a bit more polished going forward then this one it was done sort of in a bit of a rush in a way which is why I'm all you know it was a little bit even the finished result isn't the best the other thing I want to say that I would have done differently and this is what I learned when I was editing it because when you're editing your video you're seeing what you're doing afterwards and sometimes cool other ideas pop into your mind and this is always fun for me and one reasons I enjoy editing my videos and what I've thought about was using CSS variables in a better way the whole card system I came up with noir was like the picture with the box next to it and then there was a different colored one later on that could have been done much with a lot less effort if I'd used CSS custom properties the way I did it worked but CSS custom properties are great for theming and people think of theming as in I'm gonna theme my site so I can have four different colored themes but you can also theme components and easily change the look of different components through like having your different themed ones and it literally means changing one class in one place and then the whole thing just the color scheme changes and I will be making videos on this because I think it's a really powerful thing I've seen it start being used I've seen some tweets on it but I think it's something that really needs to be shared and it's such a cool thing and yeah I really wish I had done that or thought of that when I was coding it and not when I was editing it a couple weeks later but if we go back to what a a tree P had done with my design and it's the reason I feel comfortable about having left those mistakes and not having fixed them not having made it responsive and it's because it leaves you the opportunity to keep learning and keep pushing yourself I know that sounds kind of lame and maybe it's just like Evan you're just being lazy you're putting the work on us you know maybe that's a bit of a cop-out I guess but I do think part of the learning process and it's great if you followed along this far you have a rough idea of what's going on at the very least if not a pretty good idea of what's going on and I think challenging yourself instead of just following along how someone else would do it can be useful if you've never done a responsive site with grid this could be a nice you know thought experiment for yourself to try and figure out how you might approach it maybe just the carousel how can you just rip that carousel apart and actually get it looking good these can be fun things you could do on your own that are really gonna help you learn but by discovering on your own and if you do that and you do want to share it with me because you're happy with the result I'd be super glad to see it unlike what Gayatri had done I'm not gonna be featuring them but I've had a few people asking and I sort of start with the SBG challenge so the SBG challenge if you don't know was a challenge I put it a long time ago when I finished up the SBG series on now you guys make some SVG stuff and I'm gonna feature it and that's coming up very very soon so if you've been waiting for that that video is coming I apologize I've been crazy busy but that video is coming up very very shortly and I want to do a little bit more of that I want to be challenging you guys to do things that I'm not necessarily showing in my videos and either it could be just sharing through social media or occasionally I'll be doing videos probably where I'm featuring some stuff you did a little bit like my SVG challenge where you're not just following along with what I'm doing and I think it's you know to encourage that type of thing is always good yeah go ahead make something awesome from this make it better email me and I'll be super happy to check it out and get back to you on it after I take a look at it now that's it for this video pretty much part of the reason I do want to end this now at 7 videos is I have a lot of cool ideas and fun things sort of bubbling around in my head that I need to get started on they've been festering there for a long time now I was hoping to have started these earlier so there'll be some announcements coming up in the next couple of weeks to about some new things for this channel and all of that but intel that don't forget to make year for the Internet just a little bit more awesome