Hi, everybody. I am so happy to say congratulations,
that you've made it this far in the class, and that you've hopefully
completed the final project. We have all come a really long way from
the plain pages that we began with to something that's really styled. I hope you've learned a little bit of
theory and a little bit of practice, and you're putting it together to
create something really unique. So at this point,
you might be wondering, what next? I've gone to the HTML class maybe, and I've definitely just
finished the CSS class. What can I do to continue my
own progress as a web designer? Well first, I would really encourage you to consider
creating your own site from scratch. Draw it out, style it, do all the little
things that you wanted to do, but you didn't because you were too
busy doing the assignments. Once you've done that,
you can continue to practice your skills. One of the things people often ask me is,
I wanna get a job as a web designer. What should I do? Well, when you go and
you talk to other people about web design, they're gonna wanna know,
what are you working on right now? So whether it may be just working on
transitions, transforms, accessibility, you should always have something
that you're thinking about about your site to work on right now. You're also probably at this point ready
to join a Meet Up or different workshops. You're not at web developer status yet. You're not really close because
you need more practice. You need more experience. But what you can do is,
you know enough that you can meet up with other web designers and
talk to them about what they're doing. It's a great way to find out
what's happening right now and to make connections,
because connections are so important. There's also a group called
Girls Develop It that's nation wide, and they often hold workshops. You are definitely ready
to volunteer to be a TA and work with others as they build
their own HTML and CSS skills. Also, if you're really interested in
continuing your knowledge, you're going to want to learn about using JavaScript
to add some interactivity to your site. The last thing you may wanna think about
is learning more about what's called responsive design. Responsive design will use the CSS that
you've been learning all this time and tailor it to the different viewports. You might want your page to look
different on a mobile platform versus a laptop versus a tablet. Responsive design does more
than just show you, hey, you can make things small or bigger. You think about what
really belongs on the page to best make your page
accessible to others. So again, congratulations and
thank you for helping each other out on the discussion boards and in other ways as
you all created something great in CSS 3.