jamesbarnett/slp-fe

Frontend Mentor - Social links profile solution

This is a solution to the Social links profile 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
• Author

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• See hover and focus states for all interactive elements on the page

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: GitHub Repo
• Live Site URL: GitHub Page

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• CSS Grid
• Vite
• Font Squirrel
• woff2_compress
• formiko (for markdown files)

What I learned

• Self-hosting fonts
• Converting OTP fonts to woff2 with woff2_compress
• Default margin/padding values for <ul> elements

Continued development

• Improving markup structure for accessibility
• Deliberate and methodical choices for margins and paddings

Useful resources

• Font Squirrel - This helped me for XYZ reason. I really liked this pattern and will use it going forward.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @jamesbarnett