ystyao / homework-relaxr

#FEWD Week #2: Styling with CSS

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###Description

A hot, new NY Tech Startup, Relaxr, has approached you to help them develop a new landing page for their company. They've handed you the design file for the site, along with the copy and assets. You need to take these files and turn it into a landing page.

Note: For a view of the full page, see the jpg provided in the deliverable. Don't be alarmed if your font sizes don't perfectly match what you see in the jpg - trust in the design file!

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###Real-World Applications

• Build a website from a design file
• Integrate advanced CSS properties
• Use HTML5 structural elements (we will learn these on Thursday, use divs for now)
• Use CSS Resets to "normalize" the rendering of your page across different browsers
• Use the Box Model to style element borders and structure your page

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###Technical Requirements

• Use HTML5 structural elements (nav, header, footer) (we will learn these on Thursday, use divs for now)
• Use a CSS Reset or Normalize file in addition to your style.css file to style the page
• Use IDs and Classes to select and style elements on the page
• Style your text with the Google Fonts provided by your style guide (learn on Thursday)
• Follow naming conventions, maintain consistency across .html and .css files and use best practices for naming IDs and Classes
• Indent nested elements to increase your code's readability

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###Resources

• Starter code can be found inside of the "starter_code" folder for this assignment.
• Box Model explanation from Mozilla
• Box Model Breakdown
• CSS Tricks difference between IDs and Classes
• What is a CSS Reset?
• Relaxr's design file

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###Evaluation / Submission

Students will create a new repository on GitHub called "homework-landingpage" and push their code to it when they are ready to submit. Instructional team should evaluate against the solution code and the student's use of technical elements.