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Formatting our dashboard

Formatting our dashboard

Hello everybody, in this lesson we're going to be taking a look at formatting our dashboard. Now as it sits right now, it doesn't look great, right, it's just kind of all over the place and it's all blending in together, it's not great. But that's why we format things. So let's take a look at everything that we could do to format this. Now there is a lot and I'm just going to be honest with you, there's a lot of clicking, There's a lot of design choices that you can make. And before we get into it, I will say I've worked at companies where they kind of have a palette for a color palette for you to build your dashboards from. At a previous company, it was yellow and blue. And so we had to use yellow and blue. That was like our color schema. Whereas when I've been doing freelancing or consulting, I just do whatever I think looks good or what the client wants. And so, you know, it really varies. In this one, we're just going to be learning about formatting and so we're not gonna be going…

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