Figuring things out, one line of code at a time.
November was a VERY heavy month workwise and schoolwise, so I had to take yet another break, but as things eased up in the last week, I got to spend a little time working on the rotation of the cakes and I've finally nailed down their movements! In a clockwise direction, that is. I was… Continue reading Cake Coordination
The headers and banner are now complete except for the 'small' matter of the rotating slider. I spent today's session adjusting the cake placement and writing the slide-in effects. These were pretty simple to do given that I'd built out similar effects for the headers already. I love how it came out: Ta-da! Next I… Continue reading Smoooooth Sliding
I've been super busy (too busy to post updates), but I've been grabbing time to review and make changes to my site as often as possible. I ended up liking the CakeMonster footer enough to add it to the portfolio site (it caused some responsiveness bugs because their layouts are different, but I sorted them).… Continue reading Jumping into Javascript
Once I finished the news page, I spent the rest of this week working on the site's portfolio page and deciding on a layout for the individual project pages. For the portfolio page, I originally used a basic grid layout, but given that the images vary depending on the genre (playbills and film screenshots of… Continue reading Almost There
There's nothing like finding the perfect pic for a project. Sometimes it's hard to describe, but you know it when you see it. Because this project is for production company that does theatre, film and dance productions, I've been trying to hew to that theme, starting with the red curtains on the homepage and linking… Continue reading The Perfect Pic
I think I'm just about at the finishing touches stage on this homepage. I spent today adding some impactful styling changes that I think really cleared up some of the things that were really bugging me about it from a visual perspective. Firstly, I addressed some issues that had popped up in the responsiveness of… Continue reading ✨More✨ Styling
The site is really coming together now. I spent a good bit of today redesigning the logos as the ones I was using really weren't fit for purpose and they didn't align with the palette anyway. Then I started using those, which really lifted the site as there's no more blurriness. From there I moved… Continue reading CSS Animation Fanciness
I've finally "finished" the grid positioning on my new project after chipping away at it bit by bit for what felt like ages! I mixed in a little flexbox for the header and footer, since nesting grids for those areas felt like overkill. I also used it for the banner, given that I wanted it… Continue reading Grasping Grid
Since last time, I've been working my way through CSS-tricks.com's grid guide with the aim of shifting to Traversy's crash course while I start building my next project. This time, it'll be a portfolio site for an amazing local production company! Today, I just opened a new repository and framed it out. I had a… Continue reading Gridding It
I left the reinstating fixed positioning on my header for today because just at a glance I could tell that it was going to need some special attention, not just to fit in with the new flexbox positioning in the rest of the page but also because I was using a float on the logo… Continue reading Finessing the Flex(box)
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