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Submitted

Fylo Dark Landing Page - Flexbox, Mobile-First

Anna Leighβ€’ 5,135

@brasspetals

Desktop design screenshot for the Fylo dark theme landing page coding challenge

This is a solution for...

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JS
2junior
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Solution retrospective


This one took me far longer than I originally thought it would, and I definitely should have used Sass - next time! Also first time experimenting with inline svg, which I enjoyed.

If anyone knows of an easier way to get the top mobile background image to match the design other than my weird linear-gradient and positioning nonsense (used for phone screens only, not the tablet resize), please let me know! I feel like there’s probably an obvious answer, but I’ve been staring at the issue too long to see it.

On the same note, has anyone managed a β€œpixel-perfect” solution of the desktop four icon features section without using a ton of micro-adjustments? I tried to do it as simply as I could, but trying to get it to match perfectly made me feel like I was slowly going mad.

If you see anything else or have any other suggestions, please let me know!

Community feedback

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ApplePieGiraffeβ€’ 30,545

@ApplePieGiraffe

Posted

Wow, Anna! 😍

Amazing, pixel-perfect work! Your attention to detail is great!

I like the hover effects you added to the icons beside the information in the footer of the page.

I suggest,

  • Between 640px and 1200px, the font-size of most of the text on the page becomes very, very large (about twice as large as the regular mobile and desktop layouts). Decreasing that font-size would be a good idea, I think.

I suggest you try using CSS grid for the desktop (and mobile) layout of the features section. It's very easy to set up a few columns and rows, determine which content should be placed in each grid cell, specify a grid-gap between the grid cells, and make your grid layout responsive without any media queries! Tweaking your grid to match that of the design should be no problem, either. πŸ˜‰

As for those minor accessibility issues, you should be able to get rid of them by adding a <title> element to each of your inline SVGs.

Wonderful work! πŸ™Œ

As usual, keep coding (and happy coding, too)! 😁

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Anna Leighβ€’ 5,135

@brasspetals

Posted

@ApplePieGiraffe So funny story - when I first started coding this, I noticed the mobile design file was 750px wide, so that's what I went for - not realizing until I was nearly done with the entire thing that 750px is double 375px, the typical mobile layout design size for these challenges. A ridiculous mistake. I was so upset with myself for not realizing something so obvious sooner. Hence the "tablet" layout is essentially double that of the mobile layout. πŸ˜…πŸ˜‚ But you're aboslutely right, it does look pretty goofy when you're resizing between the mobile and desktop versions (although great if you have bad eyesight!). I will go back and re-do the medium styles (if i'm lucky, I can just take everything down by 25% or so).

I definitely need to start using grid more. I think here I was just a bit apprehensive of mixing grid and flexbox, although I know you're typically fine as long as grid isn't nested inside a flex container (or so I believe).

Thank you for the tip about the accessibility issues! I wasn't sure what to do with the link errors. I added the titles and generated a new report - all fixed! πŸ™

And thank you, as always, for taking the time to look through everything and leave such great feedback! I really appreciate it. 😊

Edit: Went through and revamped the tablet/medium styles. Thank you again for the suggestion. I really didn't want to have to go back and change it all, but knew you were right and am glad I did!

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ApplePieGiraffeβ€’ 30,545

@ApplePieGiraffe

Posted

@brasspetals

Glad to help and to hear you were able to add those improvements to your solution! πŸ˜„

I actually did that same thing you did when completing a challenge just a week or two ago! It is kind of frustrating to realize your pixel-perfect solution is only pixel-perfect for a completely wrong set of dimensions, but it happens, I guess, and we simply need to bounce back!

πŸ‘

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Anna Leighβ€’ 5,135

@brasspetals

Posted

@ApplePieGiraffe Glad to hear I'm not the only one! πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈπŸ˜‚ Live and learn. At least it won't happen again!

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