A Chill Saturday

Today has been a pretty chill day. I woke up to my cat sleeping on top of me, and I didn't have any concrete plans. I had a bunch of cleaning to do, but nobody else was home, and I got to have the whole day to myself. And it's been pretty nice: almost like a reset after all the craziness of the last few months (and the craziness to come).
That is, until I started working on this website, and nothing was working!!!! There's something about coding that makes me lose my mind.
Frankly, I think one of the reasons it's so frustrating is that it's always the things that I feel like should be easy that go wrong. But I don't know why I think they should be easy. It's not like I have that much experience with CSS or HTML, so really, it's all about the learning. :)
And I did learn a lot today! After a bit of tribulation, I figured out how to make a background translucent without making the text/images on top of it also translucent. Turns out, if you format the colors in RBGA format instead of hex, you can impact the opacity of the background without influencing the text.
This is what I had before for the header and footer ("background-color" is dark purple, and "color" is the white text on top):

And this is what it is now ("color" is still the same thing)

The last number in rbga format is the opacity, so now the opacity is within the color itself, instead of affecting everything within the header and footer. So, now you can see the blinkies I put in there, which I would recommend checking out!! :))

I wasn't expecting to talk about coding so much in this blog, but I've been learning a lot! Tune in next time for something else, probably!