Rylie H – Learning Journal

Parallax: What is it?

Parallax- an interesting name for an interesting design tool! Using parallax in your designs allow for an engaging and interactive experience for users, causing an illusion and offering some great creative design opportunities. Here’s a fun guide of resources to help you explore this world!

Creating Decorative Shapes with CSS

There are many ways to utilize CSS in your designs. From text treatments to colors and images, the possibilities are endless! However, you can also create simple graphics in your design with just CSS. Let’s take a look at how it’s done!

Responsa What? Understanding Responsive Design

Layouts can be tricky. It feels so nice to finally have a design that looks good and works well… until you take a look at it on a different device. What happened to your design?! How can you fix that? The answer…. Responsive Design! Let’s take a look at what it is and some of the basic things to know surrounding responsive design. Let’s go!

CSS: All About Layout

There’s a lot of options when it comes to designing your layout in CSS. From flexbox properties to positioning, here’s all you need to know about CSS layout to get your designs to look awesome.

Typography: Here’s some things you need to know

Typography is such a critical element in all that we do… and yet, it’s such an overlooked thing in our day and age, when typography is being utilized more than ever. Here are some things you need to know to level up your typography skills and create better designs for the web.

How do I do that? Image Optimization in Adobe Photoshop

Optimizing images for the web is an important part of building websites. Poorly optimized images means large files and longer loading times. Here’s how to optimize your image in Adobe Photoshop and insert those images into your HTML code.

A Return to Some HTML Basics

Diving back into HTML after a break proves to sometimes be challenging, with forgotten information or improperly used tags. However, revisiting some of the key basic information has helped me tremendously and it proves that it’s always a smart idea to revisit the basics.