Frontend Mentor - Profile card component solution

This is a solution to the Profile card component challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout depending on their device's screen size
• See hover states for interactive elements

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: HTML Solution
• Solution URL: CSS Solution
• Live Site URL: Live site

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid

What I learned

At first I was doing way to much calculations to horizontally place the profile picture in the middle of the card. After doing some research I found out that this can simply be done with transform: translate();

Continued development

Using flexbox and position

Useful resources

• CSS-Tricks - This is a good read on transform and it's properties. It's also explains different ways to use transform.
• Colt Steele - Flexbox tutorial - This video helped me understand flexbox. If you are struggling with flexbox like I did, I recommend this video.
• Kevin Powell - CSS Grid - Great video tutorial to learn css grid.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @hitmorecode