Getting git

Seems I'm only as far as week 6 in terms of running through what we've been doing on the course.  That was the week I started this blog, and I had thought at this stage I'd be updating on each week 'as it happened' so to speak.  Anyway, week 6 was mostly taken up for me with trying to get a better understanding of git & github.  One website in particular proved very helpful in breaking things down into more understandable units: http://gitref.org. The section on Sharing & Updating Projects had to be consulted regularly lately once we started work on the Server Side project. 

In Client Side, we were using CSS float for positioning purposes.  This was what my first stylesheet using float looked like:

        #container {
            width: 90%;
            margin: 10px auto;
            background-color: #fff;
            border: 1px solid gray;
            line-height: 130%;
            }
        #top_banner {
            padding: .5em;
            background-color: #ddd;
            border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
            }
        #h1 {
            padding: 0;
            margin: 0;
            }
        #left_menu {
            float: left;
            width: 100px;
            padding: 10px;
            margin: 0;
            }
        #left_menu ul {margin: 0 0 1em 0;}    
        #para p {margin: 0 0 1em 0;}
        #para {
            margin-left: 125px;
            border-left: 1px solid #ccc;
            padding: .5em;
            max-width: 40em;
            }
        #footer {
            clear: both;
            padding: .5em;
            margin: 0;
            border-top: 1px solid gray;
            color: red;
            background-color: #ddd;
            }

At this stage, I'm nearly sure I understand all that. Progress!! :-)