Richelle (Water) - portfolio

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Personal Portfolio Site

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
Did you have to resolve any issues when running the HTML Validator? If so, what were they?	No, but it did not like how I formatted my request for multiple google fonts, but it does work with the
Why is it important to consider and use semantic HTML?	. HTML is so important for organizing the information in your site. It is very important for accessibility and screen readers as well.
How did you decide to structure your CSS?	. I used mostly flex boxes, and the greater container which is one flex column, and also inside the the header and footer. I find flexbox is so nice for formatting 1 row and getting nice spacing between the elements (space around and space between).
What was the most challenging piece of this assignment?	. CSS can feel tricky to work with because it is hard to know why something is not working the way you expect it. Initially I many problems with my footer - it was 10 pixels wider than all my other elements... Ansel helped me look at it and I remembered from the box-model lesson that there was a resource about this - before I used the box-sizing: border-box, when I added padding to my footer it ended up adding that padding to the entire width of the footer. I could fix this by using border-box. yay! Then I had issues getting the footer to stick to the bottom, so I put the entire page into a 1 column flexbox with the body height at 100%.
Describe one area that you gained more clarity on when completing this assignment	. The box model and using box-sizing: border-box! This was crucial for me and fixed a lot of the issues I had when I was trying to teach myself HTML & CSS by myself last year. I still need more practice using grid and especially using grid in tandem with flex-box, but I feel like I am getting more comfortable with the idea of doing this.
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Did you deploy to GitHub Pages? If so, what is the URL to your website?	. not yet, I still have my old code on richellespiel.com but I will copy this over there soon.