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https://github.com/markteekman/easybank-landing-page
Frontend Mentor challenge "Easybank Landing Page" using CSS Flexbox and Grid, Accessibility best practices, CSS Animations and the JavaScript IntersectionObserver.
https://github.com/markteekman/easybank-landing-page
accessibility astro css-animations css-grid css3 html5 intersection-observer javascript scss wcag
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Frontend Mentor challenge "Easybank Landing Page" using CSS Flexbox and Grid, Accessibility best practices, CSS Animations and the JavaScript IntersectionObserver.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/markteekman/easybank-landing-page
- Owner: markteekman
- Created: 2021-09-03T15:14:30.000Z (about 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2021-10-23T08:23:09.000Z (about 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-04T17:43:42.842Z (about 1 month ago)
- Topics: accessibility, astro, css-animations, css-grid, css3, html5, intersection-observer, javascript, scss, wcag
- Language: Astro
- Homepage: https://markteekman.github.io/easybank-landing-page/
- Size: 1.61 MB
- Stars: 9
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# Frontend Mentor - Easybank landing page solution
This is a solution to the [Easybank landing page challenge on Frontend Mentor](https://www.frontendmentor.io/challenges/easybank-landing-page-WaUhkoDN). Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.
## Table of contents
- [Overview](#overview)
- [The challenge](#the-challenge)
- [Extra challenges](#extra-challenges)
- [Screenshot](#screenshot)
- [Links](#links)
- [My process](#my-process)
- [Built with](#built-with)
- [What I learned](#what-i-learned)
- [Continued development](#continued-development)
- [Useful resources](#useful-resources)
- [Author](#author)
## Overview
### 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.
### Extra challenges
As a bonus I want to achieve the following extra challenges:
- The page must be accessible according to WCAG 2.1 standards, things like color contrast, skip links, clear element focus, keyboard navigation support and necessary aria attributes.
- I want to add minimal animations to the page, such as a toggle animation on the responsive menu and transforms on various content on the page using the IntersectionObserver.
### Screenshot
### Links
- [Solution URL](https://www.frontendmentor.io/solutions/astro-static-site-builder-wcag-accessibility-and-intersectoinobserver-vvRI73kFt)
- [Live Site URL](https://markteekman.github.io/easybank-landing-page/)
## My process
### Built with
- Semantic HTML5 markup
- CSS custom properties
- Flexbox
- CSS Grid
- Mobile-first workflow
- WCAG 2.1 best practices
- CSS Animations
- JavaScript IntersectionObserver API
- [Astro](https://astro.build) - Astro Static Site Generator
- [Accessible Astro Starter](https://github.com/markteekman/accessible-astro-starter) - My own starter template for Astro
### What I learned
- I learned how to add a transition to background gradients.The `background` CSS property can not be transitioned by default. A solution I found online is where you add the hover effect on the before pseudo element and use the transition on the opacity property:
```scss
.call-to-action {
background: linear-gradient(to right, var(--primary-clr-200), var(--primary-clr-300));
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
// other styles
}
.call-to-action::before {
position: absolute;
content: "";
top: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
border-radius: 2em;
background: var(--primary-clr-100);
z-index: -1;
transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in-out;
opacity: 0;
}
.call-to-action:hover::before,
.call-to-action:focus::before {
opacity: 1;
}
```
- I (re)learned how to handle the layout shift that happens when you try to use `font-weight: bold` as a hover effect on, in this case, the menu items. I solved it by setting `min-width: 6ch` on the wrapping `li`. This prevents the shift in layout because the added width of the bold font weight is now contained inside of that min-width of the `li`:
```scss
li {
min-width: 6ch;
}
```
### Continued development
- What I found difficult was how to properly size the Hero background SVG and the mockup images for responsive sizes. I used a lot of breakpoints to resize them for a lot of different screen widths. I can't imagine this being the best solution, because it's a very tedious and error prone approach. I want to learn more on creating such sections in a more elegant way and I'm hoping to learn that by looking at the solutions of others.
### Useful resources
- [Background gradient transition](https://keithjgrant.com/posts/2017/07/transitioning-gradients/) - This is the example I used to create the transition on the button.
- [Intersection Observer API](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Intersection_Observer_API) - The MDN documentation on how to use the Intersection Observer API.
- [Intersection Observer Example](https://codepen.io/markteekman/pen/jOyXKpE) - An example I made in a CodePen of how to use the Intersection Observer.
## Author
- [Personal Website](https://www.markteekman.nl)
- [Frontend Mentor Profile](https://www.frontendmentor.io/profile/markteekman)
- [LinkedIn Page](https://nl.linkedin.com/in/markteekman)
- [GitHub Projects](https://github.com/markteekman)
- [NPM Packages](https://www.npmjs.com/~markteekman)
- [CodePen Creations](https://codepen.io/markteekman)