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In this episode we look at a WordPress Theme and Practice site by Alejandro Narvaja and a Portfolio site created by Justin Olson.
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- Deploy Your App with GitHub Pages
- CSS Grid Minesweeper
- Alejandro's Twitter Video
- Alejandro's GitHub
- Justin Olson's Porfolio
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Hello, and welcome to the Treehouse Show.
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The Treehouse Show is a weekly
conversation with the Treehouse community.
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[SOUND] In this show, we're gonna be
looking at more student projects.
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We have three awesome projects today.
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We have a practice site,
we have a WordPress theme, and
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we have a portfolio site.
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Let's get started.
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First up we have
Alejandro Narvaja from Spain.
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He asks if he could present his projects
in his native dialect, Castellano.
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He's from Argentina, originally, so
let's let Alejandro introduce himself.
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>> [FOREIGN]
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>> Two months on Treehouse,
that's awesome.
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So we asked Alejandro what he's been
working on, here's what he said.
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>> [FOREIGN]
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>> Que bueno, Alejandro.
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I love that you started
practicing with an awesome app.
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And what better grid to
build than Minesweeper?
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Look at this thing.
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This thing is beautiful.
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It's got a little bit of JavaScript work,
and
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he was saying that he was
working on JavaScript.
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Or JavaScript, which,
I love that pronunciation.
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It doesn't necessarily work yet.
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He's working on that, it's gonna happen.
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But look at this, this grid is
just a beautiful layout there.
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Let's take a look at his WordPress theme.
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Here we go here.
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Gorgeous site.
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Love this.
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And if you click here, it will move
to each one of these different ones.
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This is awesome.
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This is the Bootstrap stuff
that he was talking about.
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Also, if you take a look,
I'm gonna show that this is responsive.
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And what I love about this is it's
gonna come, and watch this, bam,
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hamburger menu again.
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Here we go where this drops down.
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And you can jump to the different
sections, beautiful.
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Everything looks awesome from here and I
love that you made this a WordPress theme.
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If WordPress themes are new to you,
it's a way that you can share so
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other people can have
this same sort of layout.
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And Alejandro did that and published it.
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So, open source for
the web, everybody wins.
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Ale sent us a tweet, actually.
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Sent the world a tweet.
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Saying about when he first published
his first WordPress theme and
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how happy he was.
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And there's a great little demo GIF or
JIF,
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depending on where you're from,
here about it, so do watch.
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So if you've never seen this before,
it's actually pretty neat.
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So what he's done is he's made it so
that you can arrange things, and
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it will look good on
the theme that he did.
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He embedded the CSS and all of the things
that he learned into this one theme, so
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that you could have this
on your site as well.
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Thanks, Alejandro.
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Another thing that I think is super
cool here is Alejandro hosted these on,
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you'll see that it says Github.io.
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I don't know if you know this or not, but
there's a thing called GitHub pages, and
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it allows you to host websites for free.
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Your projects there will be hosted here,
hosted meaning that in there could be
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a URL that you can share with your
friends and family, so get that up there.
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So we asked Alejandro, what challenges
did you have creating these projects?
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>> [FOREIGN]
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>> [FOREIGN]
>> I totally understand what you mean,
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Alejandro.
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You don't know what you don't know, and
it's important to start with the basics.
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You're right, and
you can fill in the missing gaps.
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And what's awesome is you can start from
the very beginning here with the way that
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Gil teaches CSS basics.
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Also, man, way to stick with it to
learn the structure of WordPress.
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You've gotta build on that, and once you
understand that you can go higher and
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higher and higher in your knowledge.
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Awesome job.
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We asked Alejandro what advice he had for
his fellow amigas y amigos.
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>> [FOREIGN]
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>> Amazing advice, Alejandro.
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I agree, don't beat yourself up.
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Take things step by step.
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Never copy and paste, always follow along.
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That is excellent advice.
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Muchisimas gracias a vos, Alejandro.
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Thank you so much for sharing with us and
sharing with your fellow students.
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[SOUND] Up next, all the way from Tucson,
Arizona, we have Justin Olson.
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Let's let Justin introduce himself.
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>> Hi, I'm Justin,
I am from Tucson, Arizona, and
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I've been a student of Treehouse on and
off for just over two years now.
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>> So two years,
we asked Justin what he's been up to.
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>> My current project is
my personal portfolio site.
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It's basically one big Bootstrap slide.
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It shows the languages that I'm
familiar with, how I rate myself with
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those languages, and some examples
of work that I've put together.
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Putting it together I used HTML,
CSS, Bootstrap.
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>> Some jQuery and
PHP for the contact page.
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>> Okay, awesome.
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This looks great already.
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I love the mountains back here, gorgeous.
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You're making me homesick.
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If we click over here to this book,
here's a nice intro about you.
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Love that you have your GitHub there,
Justin, that's awesome.
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Very highly recommended.
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So people can come see this code.
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See how he made this wonderful website,
too.
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So if we click over here,
I have never seen this before.
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This is how you rate yourself on
the different technologies that you know,
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pretty clever.
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I think I'm pretty average, Justin,
on jQuery, if I think about it.
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Let's see, what else do we got going on?
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This is awesome, more sites that you
can jump to, also with links to GitHub.
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Great way to share the work
that you've been doing.
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And if people are looking
at your portfolio site,
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they can see what kind
of skills you can do.
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Excellent.
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And then he says this is a PHP form.
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So it's gonna submit from here,
it's gonna go in the back end, and
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the PHP is gonna handle it.
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Awesome, glad that you're learning that.
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So we asked Justin what challenges
he had making this site.
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>> Now the biggest issue
putting this thing together
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was most likely designing it.
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It's probably the main reason
I sat on it for two years.
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But I knew I had to finally get it done.
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So I looked around,
saw how other sites were put together,
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other portfolio sites were put together,
and
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was finally inspired enough to put
pen to paper and draw something out.
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I was able to code it in about two,
three weeks and
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what it is today is what I'm happy with.
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>> Wow, man, two years.
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Well, I could tell you something.
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It looks great.
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About the inspiration,
you know what they say, good artists copy,
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great artists steal.
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It's totally fine to get inspiration from
out there, and I think you found it.
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This looks wonderful.
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We asked Justin for
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advice that he might give students who
are also working up portfolio sites.
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>> Now my advice to anyone who wants to
put a personal portfolio site together,
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don't sit on it.
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Get it done.
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Don't do what I did and wait two years.
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Put your work out there.
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Design it, code it,
put it out there for the world to see.
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Even if you don't think what
you've done is good enough,
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it's a hundred times better than
the person sitting down doing nothing.
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>> Very well said, Justin.
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And thank you for sharing your
work with the world and with us.
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Thanks for being on the show,
Alejandro and Justin.
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And we'll see you next time.
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If you'd like to share your work with us,
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please hit us up at
show@teamtreehouse.com.
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See you next time.
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