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Welcome to the personal blog of Alexis Ortiz, developed to notate the daily posts of Udacity's Scrum Sprint Challenge. The sprint took place between November 25 and December 9 with the intention to help students plan, navigate, and achieve learning and productivity goals for 14 days straight. Students were expected to complete the two-week challenge with accountability and due diligence towards individual, specific goals.

Illustration of a interface with a mouse on the screen.

Objectives

01

Complete 2 lessons in "Intermediate CSS: Flexbox and Grid"

02

Submit project 2: Personal Blog Website

03

Create the skeleton of a portfolio website

WEEK ONE

DAY 1

Began the challenge by building out a digital wireframe of my portfolio.

An overhead shot of a black desk with a woman's hands drawing out a wireframe in a notebook, in front of a black computer keyboard.

DAY 2

Practiced CSS Flexbox and Grid with a mini project of an iPhone keypad.

A screenshot of an iPhone keypad replica made by Alexis Ortiz with CSS.

DAY 3

Finished a CSS Flexbox and Grid practice project of an iPhone keypad.

Flowers in a vase beside a laptop screen with code.

DAY 4

Finished the Responsive Layouts lesson in the Udacity classroom.

Written-in notebooks on a desk with pens, post-it notes, and a cell phone.

DAY 5

After reviewing my CSS, I decided to use Sass in the code to make it more maintainable.

CSS code on a close-up of a computer screen.

DAY 6

Integrated the Sass preprocessor into my home page and reviewed responsiveness.

An Apple desktop computer on a desk with an Apple laptop and mobile wireframe sketches.

DAY 7

Began working on Project Two.

A CSS book and a JavaScript book stacked ontop of each other on a desk.

WEEK TWO

DAY 8

Created a design system for my portfolio website.

A red heart created from binary code.

DAY 9

Created a design system for my portfolio website.

A black flag on a white wall that reads, 'Everyone can code!'

DAY 10

Created a signup form in freeCodeCamp.

A photo of the word focus spelled out with lights.

DAY 11

Fine-tuned the responsiveness of project two and accounted for any bugs.

Cafe table with an open laptop that reads, 'I design and develop experiences that make people's lives simple.

DAY 12

Worked on more of the styling and responsive features for the homepage of project #2.

White desk that has an open laptop on it, with a code editor on it's screen.

DAY 13

Created blog post cards for Project #2's homepage.

A collage of colorful lights out of focus.

DAY 14

Continued creating the blog posts for project number two, complete with quotes and images.

A desktop computer with pink images on the screen, on a desk in a pink-lit room.