If this site was made by a male you wouldn't even see it on the front page of HN. (=ｘェｘ=)
I really disagree. It isn't about the site. It's about the post, which happens to be well written and informative.
That Time I Made A Website
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#22If I were an employer, I would be more impressed with the way the author responded to feedback/criticism and was able to improve her site on future iterations more so than I'd be impressed with the site itself (although it looks great).
I immediately thought that, too. I've worked with junior developers who, instead of learning from their mistakes, were defensive in code reviews and never took time to learn from their mistakes.
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#24Wohoo I can sleep well again. Looking pretty good Tiffany!
Like what do you actually mean?
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#25This is why I love programming -- and the programming community, warts and all. Tiffany's an Environmental Science major who had a month of free time so she decided to learn how to make web pages. That's the same way I started (albeit as an English major), and the cocktail of instant feedback and ease of discovery kept me as a happy addict of the command line ever since.
To me, accessibility and approachability are two of the most important tenets of any discipline. I think it's important that we make sure there are more Tiffanies and less stories of overharsh criticism (eg. http://harthur.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/771/)
You might not think that everyone should learn how to program, and that's okay, I agree with you -- but at the very least, I think people should have the ability to learn what they want to learn, as ably and quickly as possible.
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#26If this site was made by a male you wouldn't even see it on the front page of HN. (=ｘェｘ=)
I recently got to learning CSS, HTML and launched my own website using bootstrap that I host at home on a rinky dink Thinkpad X40. Would anyone be interested in seeing that? I'm a male though, so probably not huh? Also running an instance of gitlab, wordpress, owncloud and I had no prior knowledge of how apache worked about a month and a half ago.
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#27Awesome. Looks great.
I just went through the codecademy HTML/CSS course not expecting much and came out with a bunch of new knowledge.
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#28Hi everyone, sorry it went down for a few minutes. I was hosting it on Dropbox but turns out that's not a good idea for HN traffic, so I switched to using a copy of it. Thanks for reading :)
Looks like your website is mostly static. Look into hosting using github pages which is free. Nice progress by the way.
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#30I highly recommend you check out Bootstrap[0], especially since their recently released version is mobile first. [0] http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/
No, please don't.
This is about learning. Going through evolution of design from the ground up. Getting that joy that only comes when you do View Source and every single line is written by you.