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I’m a mysterious individual who has yet to fill out my bio. One thing’s for certain: I love writing front-end code!

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    Marcus•310
    @marcus-hill
    What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

    My use of JavaScript, having only learnt some of it today with limited experience using it in the past.

    What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

    The social pop up (on button press) for desktop was very challenging, especially with the pointer at the bottom of it. I don't think it has been done the best way possible, but it seems to work and I would definitely like to improve it.

    What specific areas of your project would you like help with?

    Improving the way I have positioned the desktop social part (with the pointer) once the button is pressed. Using position: relative with top and bottom doesn't seem the most effective way.

    Article Preview Component

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    Tom Winskell•180
    @tomwinskell

    Nice work! You completed the challenge and your solution looks awesome. You also said this is the first time you are using JavaScript which makes the achievement even more impressive.

    It's cool how you made the triangle or pointer. I didn't think to do it like that. You can actually make just a triangle using CSS. See the code here and a short article about it:

    .preview__footer__share__arrow-down {
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
  border-left: 12px solid transparent;
  border-right: 12px solid transparent;
  border-top: 12px solid var(--dark-blue);
}

    CSS Triangle

    Personally I positioned my share callout using position: absolute;. The parent div then has the property position: relative. Like this:

      .preview__relative__container {
    position: relative;
  }

  .preview__footer__share {
    position: absolute;
    top: 150px;
    left: 280px;
  }

    What you have done works though so I wouldn't stress about that. However, if you're interested in a good article about positioning elements using absolute or relative I've put a link here. Positioning absolute, relative to parent

    The one thing I think would make a big difference to your solution is that the elements jump around on transitions. Functionally it's not a big deal, it's just annoying. I had an issue with this as well. I believe it's happening here because the elements your hiding or showing are different sizes. The solution I found worked was to contain my footer in a div that had a consistent height. The height of the tallest element. That way, when the smallest element was shown and largest hidden, the container remains the same height. You could try re-factoring your code to include this small change, it would make a big difference I'm sure!

    I hope this helps, if it does, I'd appreciate if you can mark my comment as helpful!

    Good luck with your next project! Tom

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    Tom Winskell•180
    @tomwinskell

    🤩🤩 Nice work! Your solution looks awesome. 🤩🤩

    • Responsive.
    • Different layouts as per the design for desktop, tablet and mobile.
    • Colours, fonts, spacing and buttons are spot on.

    🤔 Here's something to consider. I hope my explanation is clear. Sorry if you already know this.

    • Your reset may of actually caused you some difficulty when applying the styles you wanted. For example, on the design the header or hero image is full width and actually the page.
    • Your reset provides every image with the css property: max-width: 100%. However, for your hero image you ideally want it to be width: 110vw or similar.
    • It would be difficult to apply this custom style with your current setup.

    Why?

    • Ideally a css reset should be linked before your custom css styles. Css is a cascade meaning that properties lower in the stylesheet override those above. That's why media queries for breakpoints typically go at the bottom of the stylesheet.
    • There's a good explanation by Shay Howe here.
    • Your link in index.html to the reset is below your custom stylesheet. I'd switch it around or even @import the reset at the top of your custom stylesheet. See here.
  • juan-mentor•330
    @juan-mentor
    What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

    • Estoy orgulloso de poder acabar el proyecto, colocando todos los items en su lugar y además alinear verticalmente los textos.

    • Debería de poder hacer que el Css grd sea mas responsivo y utilizar menos consultas de medios.

    What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

    • La mayor dificultad que me he encontrado ha sido la de alinear textos de distinta longitud.

    • La solución que he encontrado ha sido utilizar flexbox y a sus items darle un justify-content: space-between.

    What specific areas of your project would you like help with?
    • Me gustaría profundizar en el alineamiento vertical de Css grid.

    Tarjetas Testimoniales con Css grid y flexbox

    #bem#pure-css
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    Tom Winskell•180
    @tomwinskell

    ##Nice work, it looks great 👍##

    • 💜 I'm seeing BEM everywhere on this platform. Nice use of __ and -- to indicate elements and modifiers.
    • 💜 It's easy for me to see how your organized your CSS. Some comments as headers could help as well.
    • 🙋🏽 Consider hosting your own fonts. Here's the link.

    😀 Keep up the great work!

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    Tom Winskell•180
    @tomwinskell

    NICE work completing the challenge 🤙🏻

    • 💜 that your design looks good on all screen sizes and you added your own layout for screen sizes between mobile and full desktop!

    • 💜 you've made use of tons of sass specific features such as @mixin

    • 💜 sweet use of grid for creating all of your templates

    • 🙋🏽 something you could checkout is the clamp. It's used to make things responsive to the browser window. For example, if you look carefully the design has a different size font for the h1 in mobile and desktop. It would make a great place to use clamp.

    Keep it up! ⚽️

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    Robert Forbes•70
    @RoboticDinosaur
    What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

    I decided to use a static site generator for this one along with SCSS to create a better workflow and cleaner code.

    I would probably change some of the elements for the next challenge instead of sticking to the ease of divs.

    What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

    The Figma file provided was useless so I made some executive decisions with sizing and spacing to make the end be close as possible to the design images provided.

    Product Preview Card Component

    #eleventy#sass/scss
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    Tom Winskell•180
    @tomwinskell

    ##Looks awesome!##

    Here's some suggestions:

    • I just tried hosting my own fonts. Check out the documentation here https://gwfh.mranftl.com/fonts.
    • I see you used SASS. I just started learning this too. So, I'm definitely no expert. I seem to have followed a slightly different process to you though.
    • I would say it is a little hard to follow what's going on with your project. Have you considered breaking your scss into different files. I.e. fonts, colours, breakpoints, etc...
    • Also, keeping unnecessary files out of your project by deleting the design files and by using .gitignore might keep things more organized.
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    Tom Winskell•180
    @tomwinskell

    Here's some suggestions that I though might help.

    • One of the biggest issues I can see if the alignment of your component. It should be centred on the screen. It's worth learning how your can create layouts using flexbox. Flexbox makes it really easy to center something on the screen. Check out https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/.
    • Nice reset with the use of * in your css. There are also pre-prepared CSS resets which you can use https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/.
    • Organizing your CSS into sections with comments as headers can help. This project is small but as your CSS files getter bigger and longer, sections and comments can really help. I find it has been useful to practise this with smaller projects first. For example:
    // Font-styles
h1{
    font-size: 21px;
}

p{
    font-size: 15px;
    color: hsl(216, 15%, 48%);
}
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