Just finished my first solo HTML project after 3 months of on-and-off learning

Last week I finally got my little personal homepage to load without any errors in the browser. It's basically just a few paragraphs about my tree service business with some photos I took myself, but man it felt good seeing it work. Three years ago I couldn't even explain what HTML stood for, so this is a big step for me. I followed a free course on Codecademy and spent maybe 2 hours a week on it for about 12 weeks. The biggest headache was getting images to show up right - turned out I had the file paths all wrong. Anyone else struggle with image paths when they first started out?

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umamoore1mo ago

And yeah, the image path thing is a total rite of passage... I remember spending like an hour trying to figure out why my logo was just showing a broken link icon. Turns out I had the folder structure wrong and was pointing to a directory that didn't even exist. It's one of those little things that feels obvious once you figure it out but makes you feel pretty dumb in the moment.

nancy1541mo ago

Ugh I feel your pain on that one. I did the exact same thing with a banner image on a site I was helping my nephew with. Had the whole path typed out perfectly in my head but the folder was actually nested one level deeper than I thought. That little broken icon just sitting there mocking you.