????Winter Solstice Web: A Winter Solistice-Inspired Webpage????
Dec 31, 2024 am 02:26 AM
This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - December Edition, Glam Up My Markup: Winter Solstice
???? A Brief Intro(About what I built)
Welcome to 'Winter Solstice Web', a beautifully crafted website with a winter theme that offers a frosty and some celestial design. This is inspired by the Winter Solistice theme, the spirit of Christmas, and snowfall. This site blends smooth scrolling and interactive features for the users.
? Live Demo
My Code Link- https://github.com/Divya4879/winter-solistice_web-glam.git
Live Site - https://divya4879.github.io/winter-solistice_web-glam
A preview of my code site:-
https://codepen.io/divya-2002/pen/xbKgYZY
I do hope that you like this one, and feel the frosty weather, the chillness of this season, and get to know about the Winter Solistice event facts, here.
????? Design
This website is designed around the theme of Winter Solistice, with its cool(literally and figuratively??) color palette of frosty blues, whites, and dark backgrounds. I added an animated snowy background as a whole as well as snowfall on all the sections to add to its charm, and also equipped the sections with transparent overlays and the headings with text shadows to ensure readability and enhance contrast.
???? Key Features
Some of the key features of my website that I really liked and worked hard on are:-
Smooth Scrolling & Parallax Effect: I used GSAP continuous scroll functionality for this one. It enables the user to experience a smooth scroll behavior for the sections as they scroll down or up.
Header & Navigation: I added a sticky header to ensure that the navigation bar stays fixed/stuck in place as users move through my site. As for the navigation, I made it responsive, and it has different layouts for different screen sizes. I also used some hover effects on the navbar to add that little touch of being even more engaging to it.
Mobile Responsiveness: I have used Flexbox and a vertical navigation bar for my site to be responsive for different screen sizes.
Winter-Themed Animations/Effects: I added a snow animation as my background to create the whole winter theme for the site. I also added a little quirky but fun "snowfall" on all my sections individually.
Typography and Colors: I tried out and used some new fonts like- "Cinzel""Itim","Mountains of Christmas" for this challenge from the Google fonts. The overall color theme of the website contains winter themed colors like blue and white, along with purple, and their different shades.
Custom Animations and Effects: I've also added animations, scroll effects, etc. throughout the site, to give it a modern feel and to invite people to explore it all.
????? My Journey- Learnings, The Highs and the Lows
To be honest, this made me learn so much. I'd never used GSAP before, so I had to brush up on some basics and foundations, research if what I wanted was possible, and yes, then how, try it, change it as many times as possible so that it works correctly.
It was a great learning and creative experience for me, I learned so much, stayed up all night to finish it up and submit it, tried out many things, and finally built this.
?? What I Learned From This Challenge??
Because I did this challenge, I was able to:-
Build my scrolling animation skills(GSAP).
Enhance, improve & practice the "interactive" part of websites.
Got to know many fun facts about the Winter Solistice, as well as research about fonts & color palettes as per the specific theme.
Practiced my CSS skills, practiced & learned about the JS parts-> the snowfall, scrolling animations, the DOM manipulation.
Use the foundations of web development- HTML, CSS & JS to create an aesthetic feel, and an interactive & functional website.
I know that we already had the main content as template- HTML, but my design has also iterated many times through my making it. It has been a great experience for me.
??? Why the Name "Winter Solstice Web"?
Honestly, kinda no-brainer tbh, but because it's based on the eve of Winter Solistice and it's a website about its basic info.
???? Conclusion
I started this challenge just because I wanted to practice my basic frontend skills, and because I've always wanted to participate in "Dev.to challenges". During this time I was hyper-enthusiastic, cheerful, anticipated, happy, frustated, disappointed, satisfied. This "Winter Solstice Web" isn't just another project for me, it's a reminder of the journey I've had whilst its making, and a beautiful frosty themed Web Solistice event based creation of mine.
I hope it wasn't cringe, it's my first time ever writing a blog about my project on any platform.
Also, I had an incredible journey whilst making this, hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it.
??? Feedback
As I mentioned before, I'm a first time project submitter here on this platform, and I've never written any such blog before.
Your feedback regarding my Winter Solstice Web, and/ or my blog is sincerely appreciated. Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section below.
Thank you, to the one who read this far. Thank you for giving my blog, and hopefully my website as well some of that precious time of yours.
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