Weekly Goals: Week of 8/4/19
Tags: devjournal, codenewbie, webdev, writing
Published: 2019-08-06 11:57:47

##Past Week Summary##

I feel like last week and weekend was a bit of a whirlwind, however, I keep stressing that <em>real life happens</em>. That being said, I still feel great with what I got done.

It was stressful at times but I am happy that I was able to achieve some new stuff this week. Let's have a look at what I got done!

###Last Week’s Goals###
<ul>
  <li>Finish doMore</li>
  <li>Continue learning Figma &#x2611;</li>
  <li>Create a new resume &#x2611;</li>
  <li>Go over creating a mobile menu with my mentor &#x2611;</li>
    <ul>
      <li>Implement a hamburger menu on my website &#x2611;</li>
    </ul>
  <li>Attend my first meetup &#x2611;</li>
  <li>Continue doing 1 part of the JS 30 Challenge each day &#x2611;</li>
  <li>Write 2 blogs - Monday and Wednesday releases &#x2611;</li>
</ul>

According to my list I only missed one item which we'll talk about in a moment. I am implementing the mobile menu into my site redesigns which we talk about after doMore.

###What Happened to doMore?###

doMore is my little to-do list project and I'll be returning to in the next week or so, however, I didn't feel good with how I was approaching it so I scrapped it for now. I want to tackle it in a more efficient manner so it will be coming back sooner rather than later, but in a better fashion.

So what I did instead, that I'm very happy with was creating <a href="https://eztoggle.netlify.com/">ezToggle</a>!

![](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/wx7dpv36w38bweoqjdn3.jpg)
<em>PS you should still hit the link above because there's a sweet transition you can see</em>

ezToggle is a super simple theme changer that you can implement into a website using just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This only took me a few hours to complete and takes advantage of CSS Variables so you can easily inject the colors of your choice for a dark and light theme without much of a hassle.

The project is up on my <a href="https://github.com/ryanfurrer/ezToggle">GitHub</a> if you wish to view or use it :)

##Moving Forward##

I've quite a few things I'd like to do/work on this week including new portfolio site designs! I only started working on these on Saturday night but here's the (unfinished) homepage of one of the designs.

![](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/tmncj5ofs4pnadwjext9.png)

In the above version I want to display each section in 100vh - it's presenting some challenges but I'm sure I'll get it down. Whatever my next design is, I want it to just be clean and minimal (in my own sense). I currently have 3 designs I've roughly sketched out.

###This Week’s Goals 8/5/19 - 8/11/19###
<ul>
<li>3 Blog Posts</li>
    <ul>
     <li><em>One of which being my first technical blog</em></li>
    </ul>
<li>Meeting with my mentor</li>
<li>Continue working on JS 30</li>
<li>Portfolio Redesign</li>
    <ul>
    <li><em>Anything I create I want to be clean, semantic, and meaningful - No extra fluff</em></li>
        <li><em>Include some JS but don't rely on it</em></li>
    </ul>
<li>Continue working through my Treehouse Track</li>
<li><em>Bonus: Start my React course on Udemy</em></li>
</ul>

Another busy week but I don't see myself winding down until I get my first Web Development job. It is definitely exhausting but I am genuinely enjoying the process.

That being said, days or nights off are a good thing. I've been trying to read more which means forcing myself off the computer a little earlier than usual but in the end it's something I want to do and a goal outside of coding I have.

As usual, feel free to comment down below or you can always reach out to me on <a href="https://twitter.com/ryanfurrer_dev">Twitter</a>.