Hey folks 👋
Welcome back to Day 02 of my “Escape Tutorial Hell” dev journey!
Today was all about organizing my code, getting better with version control, and discovering how powerful browser DevTools can be.
🛠️ What I Did Today
- Added a new blog post page:
day02.html - Created an external CSS file (
assets/style.css) to clean up inline styles - Styled my navigation bar using basic CSS — looks much cleaner now!
- Learned how to use
git mergeto combine mystylizebranch intomain - Spent time exploring DevTools (box model, layout debugging, color picker)
🤔 What I’m Still Figuring Out
- I’ve heard from one awesome dev about using Svelte for templating HTML components like navbars. Sounds cool, but I’m yet to figure it out. If you’ve got some resources or advice, please share!
🧠 Today’s Learning
- Using Git branches is like time-travel for code —
git mergehelped me combine styling changes smoothly.
- DevTools is a game-changer! I now understand how layout and spacing actually work — not just in theory.
🎯 What’s Next?
- Improve the design of the site with a minimal theme
- Explore templating options like Svelte or maybe try out something else
- Keep building, learning, and documenting here and soon get to the point of implementing MERN stack or Next.JS
💬 Your feedback means a lot!
If you’re a fellow dev, beginner or experienced — I’d love your thoughts on:
- Minimal design suggestions (colors, fonts, spacing)
- HTML templating tools you recommend
- How you tackled layout issues early in your journey
Let's build and grow together! 🌱
🖥️ Live Blog: https://codingtheself.github.io/webdevblog
Until tomorrow,
Sourav Yadav
Top comments (9)
Awesome momentum! Moving CSS out was a total unlock for me too. For minimal themes, I found sticking to one accent color and lots of whitespace makes everything feel cleaner fast - have you tried using CSS variables for easy theming?
CSS now has variables?? what. I will look it up
And well I think I have lots of whitespaces actually maybe making everything black and white and then, it will easy to add dark mode feature or theme into it.
Thanks
Growth like this is always nice to see, makes me wanna get back into tweaking my own blog too.
Go ahead, I was procrastinating so I just started creating this plain blog using HTML and CSS and hosted it on github pages
now, I will be improving this website and then, maybe use svelte or ReactJS for more functionality later.
So, just start a personal blog will be like a your own diary fully custom made and I would love to read your journey.
This is awesome!
Thanks
been cool seeing steady progress - it adds up. you think building habits early in coding makes a real difference long-term or do most folks just figure it out later anyway?
well, most folks do figure it out later through experience as a part of the Natural process.
Like I also found lots of common problems while I was coding and those problems already had solutions found by the more experienced devs.
So, I believe in learning only the most fundamentals habits in coding as then, you will find new problems and then, build new habits and actually know why those habits are necessary and helps.
but if you have a good mentor and you are short in time, then just build those habits early
Loving the journey..