idk i just think pinocchio has a really long wood
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Post by Nahara46 on Dec 17, 2014 21:19:37 GMT -8
I have a horrible problem of being unable to ask people for help, and I absolutely loathe using premades and other people's remodels and stuff- I'm slowly giving in and realizing I don't have to do it all myself, but it's shown in that most of what I can do is self-taught. Mostly by ripping apart codes, and looking at existing codes to how they show up, lots and lots of googling individual elements and I've started doing codeacademy in hopes of learning html and css for good, and then going into jquery. Only JUST gotten into making skins though, so it's very much a work in progress.
Definitely I see that you tend to get a style more you work by tinkering rather than copying- like I absolutely loathe tables, and I have an insane love for positioning and hovers and z-index. Which means most of what I do is pure divs that are aligned via position:absolute, and top and left/right stuff. In terms of who in particular's stuff I've looked at the most? Um- no one in particular, I don't think? My work is rarely very associable with regular posting templates (I can't code a simple post template for the life of me because I can't think of a design!), and mostly it's become a game of /is this possible/ and then trying to MAKE it possible, through the use of wayyy to many positionings and lots of newclasses.
So, basically I'm self taught through the use of lots of interwebs and occasional ripping through existing codes. Tinkering is the bomb.
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Post by Dorothia on Dec 20, 2014 6:58:45 GMT -8
Self taught all the way. I actually found out about PB through chatango and I remembered the first time I look at a line of coding and quit haha. I quit so hard and then I made requests. Then I found out that even though I appreciate what they're doing for me, I always wanted certain things done differently and I didn't want to start being picky either so I decided to learn myself. Honestly I sorta started by combining two skins and learning how to code from there. After a while, I had a lot of the basics down but I just couldn't seem to understand what the heck the class tags were! minnie helped me with that one though and everything has been better since ^~^ Designing is still a struggle though...
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Post by MASQUE on Dec 27, 2014 3:59:37 GMT -8
I actually didn't even learn to code on proboards at first. I started off on forummotion, where straight up html was the bomb... so I had divs and shit, and well we made full page taking templates. I learned by ripping apart that person's code, and then another person's for graphics, asking a few questions. I took that knowledge with me to proboards (you cna see my early days template in there somewhere) and well, v4 wasn't really my thing. Then v5 hit. Since then, I've been mainly just look at how someone did stuff. I've hit up templates by PHARAOH LEAP and Wolf and a lot of Kuroya. Surprisingly, as much as I liked some of the others, they just didn't appeal to the character-centric designs I do. But actually Wolf's hovers is letting me learn this particular buttstain of a hover I'm trying and I hate it and jfc. I picked up hovers mostly by looking at what I was using from other people, and then screwing it up b/c I'm a dummie and wanted to tweak colours but ended up scrapping the code by accident. the amount of times I've had to come back and retake it at the base and then redo... so it wasn't really ripping, I just looked at how, gave it a test run, learned how to use what I wanted, and then I took off with the knowledge of 'hey I can do this' I just learn by looking at my senpais ie all of you here at gs. .w.
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