Tagged coding

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!

Very excited to be writing my first official post!

I still haven't fully decided what this site will be, but I wanted to talk about the background I made. I knew I wanted it to be stars, and I didn't know exactly how I was going to do that, but then I thought... maybe I could do some modifications to some polka-dots and go from there!

I made this website from this Strawberry Starter template, and it came with some built-in themes. One of them had polka dots in the background, and so I started messing around with the code for a while until I finally looked up how the CSS was actually working. (Using this blog).

(Also, I just realized that Markdown in Notepad has autocorrect? So that's cool :D)

Anyway, what I basically ended up doing was creating seven different lines of polka-dots and changing the coordinates of each one so it created a random-looking pattern, and I'm pretty proud with how it eventually turned out!

I'm excited to learn more about CSS and Markdown while doing this. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the website!! :)

Also, the moon has been crazy the last few days. It's a waxing half, but it's coming more from the bottom than the right. Pretty cool.