Iishe Davis

What I love about Treehouse is that I get to have someone teach me how to program instead of having no interaction whatsoever and just reading text all day. Nick, at first, was very informative and helpful; I enjoyed all the shortcuts and tips he gave when I started out with html and css. However, Nick just kept rushing the lessons and I just felt hurt that he wasn’t taking his time with our relationship (sigh). Once I got done with the website lesson, I was ready to let Nick go and fall into the arms of another instructor. Before I started with Guil, I was so excited to leave Nick and be with someone who isn’t as fast-paced and uncaring, but Guil wasn’t any better either. Guil, oh Guil. Maybe it’s because I was so used to living in the fast lane with Nick, but man, Guil is so slow. I don’t mind learning (reviewing) basic steps to visually customize my website, but Guil takes the longest route to teach a simple concept, I’m already five steps ahead of him. Guil is very chill and relaxed, so that’s probably why he is so obsessed over this Lake Tahoe/California website. Even though my online mentors aren’t the best speakers or use the best methods, I still look forward to learning new techniques to making my website “aesthetically pleasing”.

My obstacles for the week is keeping myself on task with all of the various projects. At first, I was a bit overwhelmed with the blog posts, Future Up website, my personal site, and my business site because I wanted to add so much detail and “go all out” on everything. But I realized that I had to take my time and work things out piece by piece. I decided to organize myself with a list, this meant that I listed all the projects, and within each project, I wrote out very specific tasks I wanted to work on. Eventually, I got everything together and felt more organized after planning out everything I wanted.

Working on the Future Up website has been slightly stressful (that’s an understatement), mostly because of the lack of content needed to create an outline of the website. Luckily, Sam pulled through and sent some info about the website along with getting admin access (thanks to Sasanjali) to our word press themes for the site. Within the first hour of having admin access, I was stressed out and angry at the fact that I didn’t know where to go to add the features I wanted on the website. Benevolent Pro is going to catch all the shade from me because they advertised, in their demo, a banner slideshow and IT WASN’T THERE. What complicated things more was that I went out of town for the whole week, so my partner had to figure out most of the things. Then, something technical happened where everyone had to get removed from admin access, and design the site as a user. My partner made some progress but it was a very difficult week for her. I’m not a big fan of wordpress or Benevolent Pro for obvious reasons but designing the Future Up website was a great learning experience for me.