Frontend Mentor - Space tourism website solution

This is a solution to the Space tourism website 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
• Acknowledgments

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for each of the website's pages depending on their device's screen size
• See hover states for all interactive elements on the page
• View each page and be able to toggle between the tabs to see new information

Screenshot

Links

• Live Site URL: Github Pages

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow

What I learned

I actually wanted to complete this without deviating too much. I need to improve my accessibility and add to my baseline performance.

• A Few Takeaways:
  • You can have multiple headers on a page.
  • Put images inside a div. The div will be the flex item. Flex on images === bugs.
  • Don't break up headlines just to make styling easier. Use spans and work around it.
  • Subtitles should use a paragraph tag.
  • Grid is a inner display value.
  • Viewport units don't response to zooming in and out.
  • @supports requires both property and value - even if value is overridden immediately.
  • To toggle a nav, you generally use attributes or a class.
  • Remember, data-attributes are 'strings'.
  • You can't animate background images.
  • In keyboard navigation, the spacebar triggers the click event. Don't need extra event listener.
  • where/is css - where doesn't add specificity.
  • aspect-ratio: width / height

Continued development

• The crew page pictures might be a little too large.
• I had issues with using hidden on a picture element. I created a utility class of d-none to hide the content instead.
• Use data.json() and fetch data from it when user click link to page / tab.
• Adjust padding / gaps to ensure everything fits into viewport height. No more scrollbar.
• Technology page only has mobile and desktop pictures. Not webp either. Thus, tablet view is compromised.

Useful resources

• Free Code Camp - Glass Morphism
• MDN Docs - @supports()
• MDN Docs - :focus-visible
• MDN Docs - margin-block
• MDN Docs - setAttribute("name", "value")

Acknowledgments

• Kevin Powell
• Scrimba
• Frontend Mentor