imported a sample picture into app/assets/images to be displayed on the homepage
imported gem bootstrap-sass
created custom file to hold all of the css for the website
added sample css for the logo and header
added some structure to the application.html.erb
added some structure to home.html.erb
added partials  _header and _shim
cleaned up application.html.erb
added a footer
added some more custom css in the sass file
stil need to clean up the css file so that variables and nesting is implemented.
Must choose a color scheme.
added paths to partials (footer and header)
configured routes.rb so that root is set
do not need to navigate through static_pages anymore. SICK!
fixed a little bug where the rails generated tests for users and posts did not work
navigate to home when the logo is clicked
removed scaffold of users that I had created before
changed info on views/user/new to provide info
wrote a couple of rspec tests for the user model to validate fields.
Removed the static_pages tests for rspec.
wrote new test to check page_requests
all tests pass
added validations for user password and email
created two migrations
added gem bcrypt 3.1.7  to encrypt passwords
need to write rspec tests for all of this functionality