Natours

Overview

Natours is a fictional hiking tour booking website created to demonstrate advanced CSS and Sass techniques. It features a modern, landing-page style design with a focus on animations, clipping paths, and complex layouts without relying on JavaScript frameworks.

Key Features

• Advanced CSS Animations: Custom keyframe animations for headers and buttons.
• Creative Layouts: Uses clip-path to create unique slanted section dividers.
• Responsive Design: Mobile-first approach using media queries to adapt to all screen sizes.
• Custom Form Elements: Styled radio buttons and inputs for a consistent brand look.

Technical Implementation

• BEM Methology: Block Element Modifier naming convention for scalable and maintainable CSS.
• SCSS Architecture: The 7-1 pattern for organizing Sass partials.
• CSS Grid & Flexbox: Utilized for the grid systems and component layouts.

Challenges & Solutions

Implementing the specific "card flip" animation on hover was tricky to get smooth on all browsers. I utilized backface-visibility: hidden and 3D transforms to ensure hardware acceleration and flicker-free animations.