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[@zachlee9575]

This just changed the course of my life. Forever.

[@mattsmithcreative]

I just spent at least 50 hours going through a webflow paywall course and was left feeling undereducated. Your 8 minute video has been extremely informative and has made me realize the course taught me some basics that are not the best approach to the end results

[@timothyricks]

Thank you for the kind words! I’m so glad this helped. Hopefully there were other helpful things you were able to take away from the paid course

[@mattsmithcreative]

@@timothyricks I did learn many things, however, the foundational tenets seem to be missing or misguided from what I am discovering. Unlearning or breaking bad habits when you are new to any software or application can be very frustrating.

[@brendinventer6407]

@@mattsmithcreativewas this flux academy by any chance? I came from learning web dev, html/css and JS with a little react etc and have played with webflow before and thought hey let me take this seriously…. Went through the whole course on flux and man…. What a waste of money like zero web dev fundamentals were taught.

[@lpbbell]

Thank you for showing how using list elements for groups of links improves accessibility. ❤

[@chris_x_ai]

also in Footer is very important

[@guapshonen]

You deserve everything good, Tim

[@duziejt1224]

Thank you!! I needed all 5 of these! Definitely keeping my eyes peeled for your course 👀

[@EdgarAntonioHez]

Impressive! I wasn't aware on using em for max-width and the element list, thank you!

[@surendarr2177]

Very helpful video thanks for sharing

[@vladimirpetroski7089]

I have to start using em's more often. Amazing and insightful as always Tim, thanks!

[@builtbydima]

Great video, very useful tips! Have you ever thought about creating a Webflow course of your own? I'm asking because a lot of courses (I've only taken one) just teach you how to reach the desired outcome (Figma to Webflow) but don't really teach you the best practices for doing things. Do you think that people should perhaps learn the best practices of HTML and CSS and try to carry that over to Webflow?

[@Dalton-Craighead]

It's super helpful to know HTML and CSS when working with Webflow. There's many great resources out there for learning them! If you're interested, I'd recommend Dave Gray's KZbin series for full courses on HTML & CSS. As for Webflow, and development in general, there's many ways to accomplish similar goals using different techniques. The more you learn and practice, the better you'll get. Accessibility, responsiveness, & page speed are (some of) the most important things you should consider when developing. So I'd recommend finding teachers who teach those principles. Timothy does an amazing job at teaching best practices with these things in mind! Good luck on your Webflow journey!

[@timothyricks]

Thanks so much! I'm definitely open to the idea of creating a full course. I just haven't dedicated time towards it yet. Learning the best practices of HTML and CSS is important for sure, and it usually translates pretty easily into Webflow. One of my favorite creators to follow for css knowledge is Kevin Powell

[@valdiszhvaginsh]

Thanks!

[@paullefondre4110]

Some gems in here. Thanks!

[@Deskofmj]

that hero design is remarkable

[@cesarv.6365]

Tha k you for providing value. This is going to be very useful for my current project.

[@dukeselwood]

Great video

[@nhato4644]

love it, please make more video like this, Tim!

[@RedPantherio]

Ohh you beat me to this video 😆 Good stuff...

[@timothyricks]

Thank you! I’d love to see your picks

[@jessehebert8082]

Gold !

[@johnalphadev]

Very useful tips. Thank you Timothy

[@kckatcreative]

Love all of these. Super practical!

[@LSTA24]

Great tips thanks TR! I ran into a problem previously with using CH for max width text headers… when I added in other languages later on and the translated content had different character counts ofc 😅

[@timothyricks]

That’s good to know! Maybe em is better in that case then

[@ryannelson1666]

Gold thanks Timothy

[@timothyricks]

So glad this helps!

[@MarkFaamaoni]

To be fair about aspect ratios, that was only added natively in Webflow in October last year. I wouldn't necessarily characterise it as a "mistake", more of a new feature that perhaps some people have missed. And I LOVE the new aspect ratio feature. It was a pain in the butt sometimes dealing with layout shifts because sometimes I didn't want to set explicit height and width to images in certain cases. Having said that, adding background colour to images was something I didn't even think of!

[@timothyricks]

That’s a good point! I probably should have worded that mistake as leaving images without a defined size. Before aspect ratio was native, we used % padding-top to define ratios natively. So glad the background image tip was helpful! I miss that one often and have to double check it

[@Bars_Sl]

We can avoid using ul for nav, by adding role="list" to a wrap, and role="listitem" to a link.

[@timothyricks]

Yes, it’s a good workaround. It’s used on collection lists also. It’s recommended though to use the correct html elements over attributes when possible.

[@timothyricks]

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Roles/list_role

[@Bars_Sl]

@@timothyricks I'll try not be lazy about it 🙂

[@angellorenzo9007]

These are really good! Thank you!

[@olenakitsak37]

Thank you! This is amazing!

[@kailandolt3490]

Thankyou this has helped alot

[@lakivicsa]

Thanks, your content is helping me a lot! :D

[@akbarbadsha25]

wow. thank you soooo much , really help alot, because this is what i do al the time. i think this tips will improve alot in my webflow

[@timothyricks]

I’m so glad to hear this helps!

[@akbarbadsha25]

@@timothyricks 🥰

[@davidgoult8694]

Amazing as always 🤩

[@timothyricks]

Thank you! 😁

[@kleinschewski]

so good! THANKS

[@danielapro9755]

Great for a self check while building 🫡

[@jo69123]

one common thing that seems hard to me, is having 1 background span across 2 separate sections. How can you make it "seamless" since even when having absolute positioning and the same aspect ratio set to both sections, it usually "gets cropped" in weird ways

[@timothyricks]

Oh, good question! I would wrap the two sections together in one div and apply the background to that div. It's okay to have divs wrapped around different sections.

[@jo69123]

@@timothyricks thank you Timothy 🙌🏻

[@timothyricks]

Glad to help!

[@ErikZaborowski]

for setting the vertical height of a container, how do you recommend setting that? I didn't see how you were defining the height on the hero_contain when you mentioned not relying on children elements for spacing.

[@timothyricks]

Hi Erik, in this case hero_contain had a flex vertical and min-height: 100svh, but that part can vary depending on our goal for the section

[@ErDige]

Crap, after watching this video I feel like a complete noob XD

[@dalanhansen6874]

I can't seem to create "unitless" variables for line-height using the dash. Do you have a solution to this?

[@timothyricks]

Hi, are you trying to create unitless values inside the variable panel by any chance? If so, that’s the one place they’re not currently supported so I use em there instead.

[@btcmartinschulze-schilddor2753]

@@timothyricks Can't we just use EM insted of the unitless value for the line height? I assumed that EM also just refers to the text size. Or am I wrong?

[@timothyricks]

@@btcmartinschulze-schilddor2753 Yes, EM works for line height. The only time we'd notice a difference between an EM and unitless line height is if we applied a font size to an element without applying a line height. Because the way the two treat inherited values is different.

[@btcmartinschulze-schilddor2753]

​@@timothyricks Oh okay, I didnt know that they treat inherited values differently. I'll dig into that now :D Thank you for explaining to me 🙂

[@FernandoComet]

You miss adding too many breakpoints over Desktop ( I see that a lot) :)

[@timothyricks]

Oh, good point! That’s a super common one

[@ethanswoo]

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