arethusa

Thanks so much for the compliments!

It took me about 2 weeks to go through Michael Hartl's tutorial, https://www.railstutorial.org/. After I had gone through the tutorial, I still didn't fully grasp some fundamentals like what an MVC framework was; I only figured that out as I started building out my site. I still feel like I can't call myself a developer, since I have a poor understanding of things like JSON and asynchronous stuff.

I had taken an intro course a while ago in college; it was on ANT assembly language and C. So I had some understanding of if/then loops and obscure things like pointers, but I had no understanding of web development and how to create something myself. I also had no knowledge of Javascript or CSS beforehand, and little understanding of HTML. I used Codeacademy to learn the basics, and of course the wonderland, Stack Overflow :)

My next goal is to learn how to create an app, but I haven't found any good resources for that yet.

Let me know if you have any more questions!

- Good point on the "customize this page". I showed it to someone today and they thought it changed the page "skin", like the color of the page. I will muse about how to make it clearer...

- You're right, the transition is quite slow. I think maybe it is jquery being laggy? I'm pretty newb with javascript, I will look into if there are any smoother transitions.

- Lol. That's what I get for being close to a university and having really good connections. I will try to figure out how to make it faster on slow connections.

- For the footer, not on purpose, I just didn't want there to be too many things to take them off the homepage. Also the About/story/ is pretty outdated so I need to update that. I will add it in after I update, since you think it is useful to see early on.

Thank you again for taking the time to check it out, I really appreciate it!