Frontend Mentor - Base Apparel coming soon page solution

This is a solution to the Base Apparel coming soon page challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Frontend Mentor - Base Apparel coming soon page solution
  • Table of contents
  • Overview
    • The challenge
    • Screenshot
    • Links
  • My process
    • Built with
    • What I learned
    • Continued development
    • Useful resources
  • Author
  • Acknowledgments

Overview

Greetings Everyone! This project is made for the purpose of practicing and improving my CSS skills. This challenge is setup by Frontend Mentor. To know more about this challenge, read the challenge.md.

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for the site depending on their device's screen size
• See hover states for all interactive elements on the page
• Receive an error message when the form is submitted if:
  • The input field is empty
  • The email address is not formatted correctly

Difficulty: Newbie

Screenshot

Screen: 1440x800 desktop

Screen: 1440x800 active state desktop

Screen: 375x800 mobile

Screen: 375x800 active state mobile

Links

• Solution URL: Github repo url
• Live Site URL: My Github page

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow

What I learned

My initial design choice for this single page is to either separate the image and the main section to separate containers or just keep it straight forward. But to keep it relatively simple, semantic and consistent, I just used a global container that will be a flex box that will hold its children into a column. The separation of the image and main section during desktop view depends on the order of the image to keep it on the right side.

Continued development

I think this is pretty much done. Other possible continuation for this is the addition of connection to api's, connection to a newsletter service or storing of the email to a database

Useful resources

• Frontendmentor.io - Frontendmentor itself has a list of great resources!.
• MDN Web Docs - Great reference for syntax and properties.
• CSS reset - I don't follow this as a boilerplate but I use this as reference.
• CSS Tricks! - Something I go back to as a reference for flexbox
• Stack Overflow - the ever loving!

Author

• Website - Alain Moratalla
• Frontend Mentor - @almoratalla
• Twitter - @almoratalla

Acknowledgments

I tip all the hats in the world for FrontEnd Mentor for giving these free challenges. I also would like to thank the one who picked this challenge for me, you inspire me to do better.

Lastly, thank you Rick for that great song!