Frontend Mentor - Ping coming soon page solution

This is my solution to the Ping coming soon page 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
• Acknowledgments

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for the site depending on their device's screen size
• See hover states for all interactive elements on the page
• Submit their email address using an input field
• Receive an error message when the form is submitted if:
  • The input field is empty. The message for this error should say "Whoops! It looks like you forgot to add your email"
  • The email address is not formatted correctly (i.e. a correct email address should have this structure: [email protected]). The message for this error should say "Please provide a valid email address"

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: GitHub
• Live Site URL: GitHub Pages

My process

This site is built with a Mobile First approach, using VSCode and Adobe XD to look at the provided design templates.

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• BEM (at least tried)
• Vanilla JavaScript (75% Stitched together pieces from the Web)

What I learned

It's harder than i thought to build a responsive website from even a 'simple' Frontendmentor.io design, its also more time-consuming to make it all look and feel like as specified.

Continued development

I have watched too much tutorials and occasionally i have built small web projects / components for fun. To really improve my skills i need to start building Frontendmentor.io challenges on almost al daily bases. Tutorials make the time pass by slow, when building something i completely forget about the time.

HTML feels simple, but CSS is much harder than i thought, there are so many options and different ways to do the same thing. What i lack is consistent experience build Web Project especially with CSS and JavaScript is still struggle.

Useful resources

• Build 20 mini frontend projects from scratch with HTML5, CSS & JavaScript - Helped me to get the email error validation to work.
• Ecosia - I used mostly Ecosia search to figure out more when i was stuck.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @Drallas
• Dev.to - @Drallas

Acknowledgments

This is where you can give a hat tip to anyone who helped you out on this project. Perhaps you worked in a team or got some inspiration from someone else's solution. This is the perfect place to give them some credit.