Checkpoint 2: Ambitions and challenges

[nepenthee]

The challenge has garnered a good amount of webmasters, from familiar to new faces, yay! To anyone reading this while still debating whether to sign up: Do consider joining us even if you might not finish your shrine by the deadline. You are invited to make use of this space if it motivates you and drives the completion of your shrine along!

My questions this week: Do you have any specific plans for your shrine aside from the challenge theme, e.g. is there anything specific you want to achieve, something new you want to try out, a skill you want to pick up? Where do you foresee your biggest challenges?

Again, feel free to chat about anything, no need to answer any of these questions. Also note that any previous checkpoint posts will stay open and you are more than welcome to reply and continue conversations there!

Comments

[larissa]

For this site, I'd really like to try using Flexbox to design the layout. I'm familiar with it but have only used it sparingly, and I don't have a good grasp of the concepts. I think using Flexbox would be a good exercise in learning more modern techniques that have sort of passed me by in the past few years, ha.

Unfortunately, I have a feeling that this will be a headache and a half to figure out...! So if anyone has any resources they can share on Flexbox, I'd be very grateful.

Other than that, I think my biggest challenge for this site is just going to be the tedium of rewatching cutscenes to take screenshots. Thankfully, Final Fantasy XIV has an ingame cutscene viewer, so I can easily open up any cutscene I need and get screencaps, but it's still a laborious task. I might also replay some of the Shadowbringers role quests since I haven't done them in a long time, although the transcripts fans have made are very handy... we'll see.

Also, I should like, start working on the site, LMAO. In my defense I've had a lot of health issues this month, but I have no real excuse for why I haven't started work back on the site yet, coughs. Hopefully I can get to that this coming week.

[nepenthee]

For flexbox, I've seen many people say that CSS-Tricks' Flexbox Layout Guide has proved most helpful, and I can see why: It's succinct and the images say it all, so you could get by just by c/ping code snippets. (This is what I consulted for a first overview and as a cheat sheet when I first tried out flexbox not too long ago.) I also want to go step by step through the basics again with The Odin Project's flexbox guide, and to put in some practice with Flexbox Froggy. For a video tutorial, I've seen people recommend Net Ninja on Youtube.

[larissa]

Thank you, Lethe! 💗 I'll be sure to refer back to this when it comes time to start coding.