I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I know it's a hobby, but I see more of a reason to make the single-element images. You can use them in the real world (maybe not in such an extreme way!).
I mean, you can take an existing element (preferably not a div) and make it look impressive.
The thing you're doing here, which is commonly misnamed "pure CSS images", is a fun exercise but doesn't have a real-world application.
Wait, I'm not trying to be negative here! What I think you're doing is pretty close to SVG, which would be a more useful thing to get good at, because you can throw SVGs in anywhere you like and at the end of the day they're not restricted to HTML, they're a generally great design skill to have.
You're talking about using basic shapes and that's where SVGs excel. Software like Inkscape and (in more recent versions) Adobe Illustrator read and write SVG as their native format and it's understood by all modern GUI browsers.
You couldn't have put it better. This sort of multi div markup paired with a bunch of CSS can make impressive stuff, but the extent of this being shipped in production is zero. I think that the potential for single div or whatever element and utilizing some psuedo classes can have a few use cases (if done well) but then again I'm still learning web development myself :)
This introduction with CSS and basic shapes is what I've been doing as practice before diving into Inkscape. I've messed around with some SVGs from Flaticon but haven't even scratched the surface. I'm excited to start learning SVG and in the meantime, this hobby will continue to provide me some fun. Thanks for the feedback Ben!
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I know it's a hobby, but I see more of a reason to make the single-element images. You can use them in the real world (maybe not in such an extreme way!).
I mean, you can take an existing element (preferably not a
div) and make it look impressive.The thing you're doing here, which is commonly misnamed "pure CSS images", is a fun exercise but doesn't have a real-world application.
Wait, I'm not trying to be negative here! What I think you're doing is pretty close to SVG, which would be a more useful thing to get good at, because you can throw SVGs in anywhere you like and at the end of the day they're not restricted to HTML, they're a generally great design skill to have.
You're talking about using basic shapes and that's where SVGs excel. Software like Inkscape and (in more recent versions) Adobe Illustrator read and write SVG as their native format and it's understood by all modern GUI browsers.
You couldn't have put it better. This sort of multi
divmarkup paired with a bunch of CSS can make impressive stuff, but the extent of this being shipped in production is zero. I think that the potential for singledivor whatever element and utilizing some psuedo classes can have a few use cases (if done well) but then again I'm still learning web development myself :)This introduction with CSS and basic shapes is what I've been doing as practice before diving into Inkscape. I've messed around with some SVGs from Flaticon but haven't even scratched the surface. I'm excited to start learning SVG and in the meantime, this hobby will continue to provide me some fun. Thanks for the feedback Ben!