Alright, let me tell you about this thing I worked on, called it ‘belê’. Just kinda popped into my head, the name. No big reason.
So I started messing around. Had some free time, you know? Thought I’d try making a simple little web thing. Nothing fancy. Just wanted to see if I could make something, anything, work from scratch.
First, I just opened up a text file. Typed out some basic HTML tags. Got a title, a place for input, a button. Looked ugly as sin, obviously. Plain white page, black text. Real basic.
Then came the styling part. CSS. Man, I fiddled with that for ages. Tried to make the button look less rubbish. Tried centering stuff on the page. It’s always harder than it looks, right? Spent maybe an hour just trying to get a box to sit where I wanted it. Kept messing up the margins or padding or whatever.
Making it actually do something
Okay, so making it look slightly less terrible was one thing. Making it work was the next headache. I wanted to type something in the box, click the button, and see it appear in a list below. Simple idea.
Tried writing some JavaScript. Copied some bits from examples I found online. First attempt? Clicked the button, nothing happened. Checked the console, bunch of red error messages I didn’t understand. Typical.
Had to break it down. Really slowly.
- Make the button clickable. Okay, got that.
- Grab the text from the input box when clicked. Took a while, but figured that out.
- Create a new list item element.
- Put the grabbed text inside that new element.
- Stick that new element onto the list on the page.
Each step felt like a mini-victory, honestly. Lots of trial and error. Mostly error.
Finally got it working! Sort of. You could type stuff, hit ‘Add’, and it appeared. Felt pretty good for a minute. Then I refreshed the page. Poof. Everything gone. Yeah, didn’t figure out how to save anything. So it was basically useless.
But hey. That was the process. Started with nothing, ended up with a thing that kinda did what I wanted, even if it forgot everything instantly. Learned a few things, got frustrated a lot, but built something. That’s the ‘belê’ story. Just a little project, messing around. Nothing world-changing, just practice.