- Get the text to actually be the font I want
- Use the same layout on the other page, but add more rows of text boxes without destroying the table set up of what is already there.
I had asked the CSS to make a certain kind of text (Questrial) and for some reason, it worked at first, and then after editing the CSS, it just went to Times New Roman. Even when I went back in, changed it to Times New Roman and tried to change it back to Questrial, it just stayed Times New Roman. So it was back to W3 schools again, to the font page and the “safe fonts” page. And ta-dah! It worked! (Maybe you can't tell on the tiny screenshot, but it did!)
Inevitably, I screwed up anyway. But that’s okay! Because I followed what should be a cardinal rule of coding by saving the old code before editing it.
All I had to do (in theory, anyway) was go back to my original code and add the new code, this time fixing little things in the table - all those trs and tds - ‘til it was right. Using tables freaked me out at first when I looked at examples of other people’s tables; they looked very fancy and intimidating. They had all this cell-spacing, and the scroll box things, and images, and certain widths…?! But when I looked at W3’s basic table, I thought, “What? That’s it?” That tends to be the truth of a lot of experiences: I worry about them and fear them, until I just jump in and do it (often learning with the help of someone else), and realize that it’s not that bad. Do I fail sometimes? Uh, yeah. All the time. But I learn from it, and grow from it. That’s what I model for my students too!
So, anyway. Off the soapbox and back to business…
I screwed up the code somehow. Maybe it was with the recent addition, or maybe it was messed up all along and I somehow didn't notice it before, but the navigation bar did not appear at all on the teacher resource page, and on every other page, there were multiple navigation bars. ...I know. I know.
But wait!
I thought that having the Navigation Bar in my CSS would override not having the links in my HTML, but apparently not. CSS styles the HTML, not the other way around. (How did I learn this? Well of course, I went back to W3. Oh, and to check my nav bar code, I naturally went back to W3’s page for the very same.) In any case, it was a simple matter of hunting around in my code and finding the code that I used for the navigation bar on the other two pages, because apparently I had pasted in the nav bar code into the “For Students” page and simply forgot to do it in the “For Teachers” page. Now that that has been righted, teachers can safely navigate back to other pages onto my website!
Thanks for sticking with me on this journey!