Alright, let me tell you about this little project I worked on, this “honey cake shop” idea.
It started pretty simply. I just had this image in my head of a cozy little shop selling just honey cakes. Not a real shop, mind you, just wanted to see if I could put together a simple webpage for it. Something warm and inviting.
Getting Started
First thing, I grabbed a notebook. Yeah, old school. Sketched out a basic layout. Nothing fancy. Just needed a spot for the shop name, maybe a nice picture of a honey cake, a short description, and perhaps a list of different cakes or prices. I thought about what colors might work. Yellows, browns, golds – like honey, right?
Then I needed some stuff to actually put on the page. Found a nice picture online, something that looked tasty. Wrote down some made-up names for different honey cakes, like “Classic Honey Loaf” and “Spiced Honey Squares”. Just brainstorming really.
Putting it Together
Okay, time to actually build the thing. I fired up my code editor. Started with the basic HTML structure. Just the bare bones, you know? Set up the main sections I sketched out earlier.
Got the shop name in there. Then I put in that picture I found. Had to fiddle with the size a bit so it didn’t take up the whole screen. Added a little welcome message underneath.
Next, I wanted to list those cake types. A simple list seemed best. So I used a list tag for that.
- Classic Honey Loaf
- Spiced Honey Squares
- Honey Nut Bundt Cake
Something like that. Put in some fake prices too.
It looked pretty plain, obviously. Just black text on a white background. So, CSS time. This is where I tried to bring in those honey colors. Picked a soft yellow for the background. Maybe a darker brown for the text to make it readable.
Styling took a while. I’m no designer, so it was a lot of trial and error. Changed the font a couple of times until I found one that felt kind of homey. Played around with spacing to make sure things weren’t too cramped.
I made the shop name bigger, centered it. Tried putting a border around the cake picture, didn’t like it, took it out. Added a little bit of padding here and there. Just tweaking, really. Seeing what looked okay.
Little Hiccups
Ran into a small snag trying to get the picture and the text description to sit nicely side-by-side. Took me longer than I’d care to admit! Stack Overflow became my friend for a bit there, not gonna lie. Eventually figured out a simple way using some basic CSS properties. It’s always something small that hangs you up.
Finishing Up
Once the layout and colors felt decent, I read through the text again. Made sure my imaginary cake descriptions sounded okay. Checked that the basic structure held up when I resized the window a bit.
And that was pretty much it. Didn’t add any fancy features, no ordering system or anything complex. Just a static page. But it looked kind of like the cozy little shop I imagined. A simple page showing off some honey cakes.
It was a fun little exercise. Good practice just putting HTML and CSS together to make something visual. Happy with how it turned out for a quick project.
