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CSS, Why So Time Consuming?

 A Restaurant Page I just wrapped up my latest project: a simple website for a (made up) restaurant . The major things that consumed my time included wrapping my head around how to use webpack , remembering how to set up CSS for successful styling, and trying to isolate the different pages and elements. I enjoyed putting this project together, but I was a little discouraged by how long it took to complete the project. I worked on this project from the 15th to the 22nd of this month. I'm recognizing just how complex these projects can actually be an it's hard to recognize that doing well on the projects is part of why I'm behind on my goal of wrapping up this Odin Project JavaScript Course come January. Remembering Why CSS Can Drive Me Crazy A big sink hole of my time was remembering some CSS basics. I was having the worst time getting all my elements to center on the webpage. This led to an hour or more of trying everything I could think of, before remembering the simple

Falling Behind

Creating the Timeline I finally crunched the numbers and I'm falling far behind on my deadline. I'd like to wrap up The Odin Project's JavaScript Course by December 18th (so that I have time to do some interview prep before I'm applying for jobs come January). Right now, I'm working on material that I should have wrapped up the week of September 19th. That puts me about 3 weeks behind on my 16 week (as of the beginning of September) schedule. It does not feel good to be that far behind. I'm hoping to log a lot more hours over the next few weeks to catch up and be "on schedule." Logging More Hours Over the last two weeks I've averaged 6 hours and 45 minutes a week. Pretty close to my hope of a 7 hour a week average! I've been able to cover more ground, but I'm also recognizing that spending time on the various projects can take up a week or so of my time. I'm considering dividing my time between projects and working through the articles