Hello everyone my name is Corvox and I have been deigning sites since 1993, I have a desire to get back into developments. Here is my first nights attempt at going from a PSD design to a HTML and CSS website.
Working with CSS grid reminds me of the way we used to design and develop sites in the 90’s with tubular data. Tables and frame etc.
I could use some help though.
I design the sites to be 1600px in width with unlimited Height while designing the site.
I created a 16 column grid that will be 68 rows at 100px each unit.
I figured this would allow me to visualize my design into how I need to lay the grids out.
My Staging site is staging.412mediadesign.com here you can see my results.
I am pleased at my first attempt.
How ever now after designing what I have, I noticed it’s not full width.
My questions are.
- can I fix this to full width with out needing to change each grid object?
- Is there a better and more standard way for me to achieve what I want?
I have noticed some elements were in full screen and I had to do small and tiny hacks (well I kept tweaking till it went into place on my screen).
My next question is for Mobile.
- the mobile site repeats the hero image vertically. How can I stop that?
- the mobile site is off on a few segments of the design. How can I fix that?
3.Again the width I assume would had fit the screen since I design everything at 1600px wide. But its only feeing up roughly half the screen on an Iphone 7
My next question is.
If one is doing all this by hand with notepad++ (lets put it this way, my syntax errors were obsolete using and tags, dated me to a piece of software!) is there anything other then https://codepen.io/pen/# that might allow me better visual aids from Desktop>mobile views?
I have not been part of development of sites since you coders made things so difficult, now the CSS grid is around, I feel its my time to start learning development again.
Any feed back is welcome, and please remember if you change my code, comment the HELL out of it, so I can learn from what you did, and others can teach me what you did wrong and why.
I am a self taught man, have learned a lot and forgot more then most have learned.
In 12 hours I got this far with design and coding of this site. But I can not learn it alone any longer, since it takes me more time to search for an answer I do not know I need yet.
So lets learn and teach each other during my struggles.
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