Beach CSS Art: Frontend Challenge: June Edition

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge v24.04.17, CSS Art: June.

Inspiration

Creating a dynamic beach scene with moving clouds, waving sea, and detailed elements like trees and sand offers an exciting opportunity to blend creativity with technical skill. This project not only enhances your understanding of advanced CSS techniques but also provides a visually satisfying outcome. Imagine bringing a serene and lively beach landscape to life on a web page, where every element moves and interacts seamlessly. It’s a perfect way to challenge yourself, improve your web design capabilities, and produce something truly beautiful and engaging. Embrace this project as a chance to transform simple lines of code into a vibrant, animated scene that showcases both your artistic vision and your coding prowess.

Demo

Journey

From this project, you learned several key concepts and skills in CSS and web design:

1. CSS Layout and Positioning:Understood how to utilize CSS properties such as position, width, height, and clip-path to construct intricate layouts and precisely position elements within the viewport.

2. Gradient Backgrounds: Learned to use linear gradients (linear-gradient) to create visually appealing backgrounds for the sky, sea, and sand, ensuring a smooth transition of colours.

3. Animation with Keyframes:Explored CSS animations using @keyframes, learning to animate properties such as background-position and margin-left to create dynamic effects, like moving clouds and a waving sea.

4. Responsive Design: practised making responsive designs using relative units (vmin, vh, %), ensuring the scene adjusts well across different screen sizes.

5. Styling Complex Shapes: Gained experience in creating and styling complex shapes, such as trees and clouds, using CSS properties like border-radius and pseudo-elements (::before, ::after).

6. Using Pseudo-elements: Utilized ::before and ::after to add decorative elements to your designs without additional HTML markup, enhancing the visual complexity while keeping the HTML clean.

7. Organizing CSS Code: Finally, improve my ability to write organized and efficient CSS code by learning to consolidate and streamline styles, making your code more readable and maintainable.