Front end development advice

Hi Austin!

My advice would be to do what feels right to you! If you would feel more comfortable digging deeper into HTML and CSS before advancing onto JS then do that! Personally, I dug a bit into HTML and CSS before properly moving onto JS! The reason I decided to do this was because I didn't feel properly at home with CSS layouts and I wouldn't to learn about them some more.

However, if you feel like you know HTML and CSS well and could handle moving onto JavaScript right now then go for it!

-Luke

Austin;

Personally, I think having a portfolio that shows the progression of your learning is worthwhile. You may never show anyone your first few projects, but when you look back at them you will see how far you have come. You may also want to come back to them down the road and "improve" them, or if your learning goals for the project were achieved for a certain site, you may decide to move on completely.

Just my thoughts and happy coding,

Ken

Awesome thanks for the advice! I like the idea of digging deep into HTML and CSS and becoming confident in those skills before moving to JS.

I'm asking myself the same question. I've done quite a bit of CSS here at Treehouse and more HTML and CSS elsewhere on the web. My biggest concern before moving on to JavaScript was CSS layout. I feel like I have a good grip on HTML and CSS as a whole but sometimes positioning elements effortlessly with CSS gives me a bit of trouble.

I find that with my personal projects I'm able to achieve the layouts I want, but I always wonder if I'm following best practices or what. Anyway, I have moved on to JS because I feel that if I hadn't I would just stay at CSS forever before I felt fully comfortable with it.

My suggestion is this. If you feel pretty comfortable with HTML and CSS...Move on to JavaScript. Start building little projects that include what you're learning with javascript, and also include what you already know of HTML and CSS. That way you aren't losing your grip on what you've already learned and are practicing what you are still learning.

If you don't feel confident with HTML and CSS basics I would absolutely continue to study them until you feel confident.

I hope that helps!

Thanks Mark that's what I'm going to do! I'm going back and building HTML and CSS projects until I get a good handle on them.

I'd just like to add that I'm diving back into HTML/CSS to build more familiarity with those languages before moving onto JS. Guil's new CSS Basics course is definitely value-added for me in this case. I highly recommend anyone to take it if your goal is getting more comfortable with CSS.

For sure. I just took that course too and it was great.