NowSkills (DML3) Web Development

This week I went into Manchester to do some learning with NowSkills. last time I did the week learning with them in was on zoom so this time was pretty different coming in and meeting everyone.

Day 1

We got a simple explanation of coding and what coding is as there are different types such as html and css. We also looked at a different form of coding called Pseudocode its basically code that people can understand like how to make a drink you give it abunch of simple command being get a cup pour a bit of juice in cup turn poor water into cut till almost full. Once you have created that you give the Pseudocode to the coder they then translate it to normal code for bots to understand.

Near the end of the day we created a wordpress account and got a simple tutorial.

Day 2

we learnt about HTML and CSS and how to use them. I now know some of the basics

<b>Inside text</b>

<p>...</p> is a paragraph of text.

<h1>...</h1> is the main header on the page.

We used some websites to do coding. the links below are the 2 that we used.

https://jsfiddle.net/

https://www.w3schools.com/

I used this CSS code to change text font size and colour change

h1 {

font-size: 30px;

color: #3E7E;

font-family: Noto Serif;

}

we got a brief description on the rest of the codes. JavaScript, PHP and Python. we also looked back at SEO (Search engine optimization).

We did some more work on WordPress, this time learning how to customize a website and we added some more tabs.

Day 3

We learnt about Domains how to get them websites to go to and different ways to host them in servers. Also looked at what IP address is. We learnt about all the different types of malware and verse how they spread and what they do. leant the best thing to do when buying domains use different service for domain and hosting. icann is the governing body that can help you if you buy a domain name and having problems like a big one and the original owner wants it back. Use https://www.icann.org/

Day 4

We learnt how to actually do SEO for are websites making are SEO turn green instead of red meaning it has a great SEO and also webmaster tools. We also did internal linking we learnt about how to modify the website for mobile and tablet versions only (here's a link to the website I have been working on using WordPress) https://dev-the-juice-world.pantheonsite.io/#contact

Day 5

the Now Skills learning its only from Monday to Thursday. i worked on starting the blog post and also reflection on the week and everything i have learnt.