This is my personal website for Intro to Digital Humanities. It showcases the projects I’ve done and short essays I've written. I am also using it to show information on classpecting, a topic of great interest to me.
Making a website was fairly challenging. I’ve dabbled in HTML by tweaking codes for blog sites, so I had a vague idea of how it worked. I expected that actually learning HTML would be really difficult, but I’ve picked it up quickly. I enjoy hacking code and figuring out what works and what breaks. It’s like an open-ended puzzle with multiple answers. You can move pieces around to create numerous configurations, but you still need to put them together in specific ways to work.
My biggest challenge has been using Using FileZilla, as all the files, folders, and saving files in the right folders gets confusing. Manually dragging a file from the local site to the remote site every time I want the updated version to show up online gets tedious. And it's frustrating when a page looks fine on it's file, then gets broken on the website. I had difficulty making a picture show up on my site because it wasn’t in the proper folder.
Despite all the trouble, it's very rewarding when I finally fix what's broken, and my website looks right. And usually fixing some broken code or adding something new is much easier than I expect. My website template didn’t have a piece of code to add a new page, so I had to add it. I thought it would take a lot of work and time, but I found it to be simple and quick.