@Crystalis89Submitted about 2 months ago
What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?
I used a few things new to me this time:
Using lineargradient to darken an image or change opacity of a background-image without needing a separate overlay or messing with pseudoelements.
Using boxshadow to create the underline on hover without it changing layout from taking space like Border does.
Use clamp for the font so it can scale between screensizes smoother, particularly for the tablet middle size. Still do not 100% understand it but that more from lack of experience and poor math skills than confusion.
First time using Grid to create overlapping elements since I learned it a year ago, also as I mention below have trouble keeping them overlapping if screen to large (without using a breakpoint).
The "parent:hover child" selector pattern for the interactive button elements was a cleaner method than I used before.
Simplified the code for the sidebar nav from what I did prior projects slightly.
What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?
One big thing was that due to text not scaling well as shrink some window size, particularly the Hero, did not look right as size changed. To resolve that I had to learn how to use clamp() to set font size so it would more smoothly scale with window size keeping the box filled better.
What specific areas of your project would you like help with?
Two problems that I keep having with all of the projects is that my scales are always a bit off, even if look perfect to me the screenshot after submission is not right.
I think the issue may be partly related to Chrome dev tools as things can look perfect in it for me at all sizes from 320px up to the 1440 target in style guide but when close devtools there will be at least a few things very wrong that don't look similar til zoom in 150% despite my screen not being big.
I would need to add another breakpoint to make it overlap correctly on my screen even if works perfectly 1440px and below
An area that keeps giving me issue is responsive layouts, usually from something shrinking changing the way it is positioned next to other elements.
In the case of this project the image for the "founding" blurb stays in same spot and resizes fine, but the text changes shape thus making it overlap less as the screen shrinks or move apart if grows to much even if I put in max values or 0 grow/shrink. And just the fact images react differently to changing size than text.
Having responsive elements maintain same shape and relative layout to surrounding elements is probably my weakest CSS skill right now that unlike everything else does not feel like I am improving much on no matter how much practice or read.
