transform-style opens up some cool possibilities
I don't do a lot of fancy transitions with CSS. I'm a fan of minimilism in general, so simple layouts with simple effects tend to win me over. Because of this, I haven't spent much time playing with anything 3D related with CSS very much. I've toyed around with persepective a little, but that's about it.
That is, until I saw a tweet (that I've since been unable to refind) that had a cool effect in it. I was intrigued, and tried to replicate it for fun, but I wasn't able to do it until I discovered tranform-style.
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Centering content without a container
Using a .container or .wrapper with a fixed width on it is a popular way to center content on the screen. Something like this:
.container {
max-width: 1200px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
It works wonderfully, but now that we have grid, I've stopped creating .container on my site. They aren't needed. It's just extra markup for nothing.
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There is a turn unit in CSS
Following up on my posts inspired by tweets that I come across (front-end dev twitter is amazing for finding little tips and tricks and stuff like I like to post here), here is an amazing thing I came across by none other than Wes Bos:
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A cool trick for checking for the alt attribute
A little while ago I came across this tweet:
I love that idea so much, and had to write up on it.
Let's break down exactly how this is working before we dive into a bit more info on why you might even want to bother with this.
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CSS Scroll snapping just blew me away
CSS seems to be stealing more and more functionality from things we traditionally had to use JavaScript for. This is good because not only does it help performance and reduce dependencies, it also makes our lives easier 😊. It also reduces the barrier of entry for people to make cool and fun websites, which is awesome.
I've been a huge fan of scroll-behaviour: smooth since I discovered it, and in a similar vien I've recently stumbled across scroll snapping and it's pretty incredible, and now that support has dropped on the most recent version of Chrome, I think that it's worth taking a look at it.
Here, is an example of how it works. Try scrolling and see what happens (you'll have to be on a desktop for this, as I mention lower down, browser support hasn't hit mobile yet).
See the Pen CSS Scroll snapping basic example by Kevin (@kevinpowell) on CodePen.
Cool, right?
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Using a Sass map for my colors
Last week I took a look at how I chose my color scheme, now for a little insight into how I used it when writing my Sass.
Using my colors
First, I created a variable for all my colors. This was just to make life easier to reference, or make changes to later on:
$primary-color: #EE6352;
$youtube: #D16E8D;
$articles: #FFAC83;
$community: #3F78C9;
$courses: #49C4A3;
$white: #FFF;
$black: #444A51;
$lighten: 5;
$darken: 25;
You'll notice a $lighten and $darken variables there too. That was so I could lighten everything by the same amount, and very quickly change how much I'm lightening or darkening things by.
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Picking colors
Creating a color scheme can be a pain in the ass. A lot of 'color scheme' websites, such as Adobe color and coolors give you 5 colors. My general advice is always to start with only three colors:
- A pop or primary color
- A neutral dark (not black)
- A neutral light (this can be white)
This is by far the easiest way to start with a color scheme which will always look nice. As far as the dark one, try to avoid pure black, but instead go with a really dark color, like I did with my text on this site.
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