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First impressions are of utmost importance. Let’s make a good one as we build out the area people will see first when they arrive on the site.
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All right, so our basic typography is in
place.
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This will give us a foundation to build
off of as we arrange content
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through hierarchy.
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Our content needs some serious corrections
to its measure and space.
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But we'll deal with that as we go because
each section will be handled differently.
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The first section we want to look at is
our header.
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This is the area of HTML that's under the
header tag.
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So, we're looking at how to style out the
words, CSS Zen Garden, and
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the beauty of CSS design.
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From our sketch, I've concepted this
section to include some big type for
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a title, with a subtitle beneath it, at a
smaller size.
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I want the background to span all around
this section to the edges of the browser.
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So when you hit the page,
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you're not engaging a lot of different
things at once.
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You're only soaking this in.
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All right.
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So this is where we left off on our
current web page.
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I'm going to want to start styling out our
header through our CSS.
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First I want all our headings to have a
font color of green.
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So I head down here and add this end.
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And change this to color.
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We'll save and check that out.
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All right, it's a little intense in
places, so
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we're gonna change that around but it's
starting to look good.
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And down in our header,
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we're gonna now give it some space by now
adding some padding of 10 M and 4 percent.
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And then give it a text align of center.
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Let's check that out.
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Great.
So, now our text has ample space above and
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around it, and you can engage it as it's
own element on the page.
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Now I wanna start styling out our h1.
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So I want it to be a lot bigger and
bolder.
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To start I'll go to font size of 6.2m.
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And a font weight of 900.
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Let's see what that looks like.
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All right, it is definitely big and bold.
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I'm not a fan of the green color for it
here, so
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I'm actually gonna change it back to our
text color.
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So I'll grab that.
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And paste it into our h1.
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And I also felt like the margin on the
bottom could just be flat, so
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let's give it zero.
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Let me check that out now.
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Great.
So this is much nicer, and
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I like the spacing a lot better, where our
H2 is snug up underneath our H1 there.
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So, I want my H2 here,
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which is our tagline, to be a bit
different than what it is right now.
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I think it would look really nice if it
was the sans version of Allegrea,
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and all caps with some letter spacing and
so forth.
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So let's style that out.
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Over here I'm gonna grab our font family,
and paste it into our h2.
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And I don't need the small caps version,
so I'm gonna remove that.
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And then I felt like the font size was a
little big, so
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we'll set it at our next size down in our
scale, which is 1.777m.
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And it's also set the letter spacing to be
.3m, just to give it some breathing room.
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And lastly, let's set our text transform
to be uppercase.
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Let's see how that looks.
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So, that's looking good, but
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I feel like you could just use a font
style of normal instead of italic.
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Now, let's check it out.
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Great.
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So, we're almost there, but
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notice how the small caps in this
uppercase setting don't really jive well.
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So, let's go in and
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fix that by targeting the header abbr to
have the text transformed of uppercase.
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Great.
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So, that fixed that issue there.
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Now let's jump into our summary section.
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From our sketch, I've concepted it out to
be it's own little area.
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Centered so it feels tied to our header.
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But we can distinguish it thru changes in
background color, the size of the type,
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and the font style.
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So, I'm gonna head back into our CSS.
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And I'm gonna first copy these two colors,
as I want our summary background to be
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green, and our color to be white, so we'll
set that up.
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We also want it to have a text-align of
center.
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And this class is gonna need some space
around it, so let's give it
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some padding of 1.5 for the top and
bottom, and 6% for the left and right.
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Let's check that out.
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All right, it's getting there.
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Obviously our link color will need to
change a bit.
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And I actually wanna increase this font
size to accent that summary more.
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Let's head over to our CSS, and I'm
targeting our summary p element.
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And let's increase it to the next size in
our typographic scale, which is
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1.333m from http://www.typescale.com, and
let's check that out.
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That's much better, but notice here we
need to adjust our measure,
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as we don't want this to span the whole
width of the browser, and
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it just feels a little clumsy.
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So to fix that I'm gonna set a max width
of 44m.
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And give it a margin of zero auto so
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that content block is now in the middle of
the page.
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All right, that's getting there but
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our line height here feels a little too
spacious.
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So I'm gonna set that at 1.4 instead of
the 1.6 that it was at.
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And let's give this a font style of
italics, so
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that it feels a little different from our
text.
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All right.
So that's looking a whole lot better.
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But I still feel like we could do
something to the last line of
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this paragraph.
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And we definitely need to change the link
colors there.
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So let's head over to our CSS.
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And we're gonna target that paragraph by
doing summary p + p,
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because [SOUND] it's the second paragraph
in our summary class.
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So I'm gonna add some code real quick to
style it out and explain what it does.
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So what this code is doing is it's
removing any text indent that we had
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put on it so it'll correctly align to the
center.
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We're gonna give it a font size of normal,
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because it pairs well with the italic
going on there.
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And then I'm gonna decrease the font size
so this paragraph is less accented.
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Then we'll set the top margin to 0.2 em,
which will give it even spacing, and
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lastly, I've set its color to be dark
green.
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Let save and check it out.
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All right, I really like how this calls
out this portion in the summary to
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be really important, and then the second
portion to be a little less important, but
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we still need to fix these links here.
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I think they would look good as small caps
with a small border,
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with the same color as the text at first.
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But when they're hovered over, they'll
change to our sandy white.
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Let's go set that up.
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So I'll save and refresh the page.
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This is looking really nice.
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These links are able to be noticed through
their bottom border and
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hover state change.
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Our header as a whole has really come
together and
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taken shape, and it immerses the reader
immediately in the content and colors.
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We'll get into reponsively adjusting all
these later,
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because we first wanna set up our body
copy responsively.
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Changes to our body copy's font size will
affect all our headings, so
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it's smart to do that first, and
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then adjust from there as needed at the
different break point sizes.
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Next we'll get into building out our one
column and two column layouts.
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