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Wanna know how it happened?

TrishZwei July 11, 2015

This is a great article about how a number of websites and apps got started. Instagram, Angry Birds, AirBnB to name a few. Check it out: How famous start-ups were started.

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Game Art Guppy
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References:

  • W3Schools
  • jQuery
  • JS Mozilla Developers Network

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  • CSS Diner: a CSS Selector Game
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About Trish

Trish graduated from the Art Institute of California – San Diego with a B.S. in Web Design and Interactive Media with highest honors. She is currently teaching Responsive Design and Scripting for the Web at Platt College. She’s come back to teach Intro to Programming for USD’s ASAP every summer for the last couple of years starting in 2013. Read More about “About Trish”…

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A Tip for you:

Do you create code and designs on the screen at a rapid rate, without a care of how things will turn out as you know you’ll edit and clean things up later on? If so, why not try a new approach in 2017. Instead of jumping right in and figuring things out as you go, why not turn to the trusty pencil and paper or use a whiteboard to plan an overall site layout off screen first. Use this approach to get an idea of where you want specific elements to go, much like how an architect uses floor plans to plot out where windows, doors, and rooms should go. If adopting a pen and paper doesn’t appeal, there are plenty of great wireframing and prototyping web design tools out there that can help you quickly get your ideas out of your head, before you get started in your development environment.

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