Own project · Stop 4 of 10

Boxing club website

My first own website: the home page of a made-up boxing club with a header, a logo and navigation.

Goal

Build a page that looks like a real club, not like a textbook.

Implementation

A large header picture with the headline and a motto on top.
Logo and navigation at the top, below it a block of text on a color gradient.
All written by hand in HTML and CSS, without a site builder.
In the picture here, the original photo and logo are replaced by areas of color.

Code

Header picture, navigation and headline on top of each other

style.css

.header-image {
    height: 75vh;
    width: 100%;
    object-fit: cover;
}

.container {
    position: absolute;
    right: 32px;
    left: 32px;
    top: 10px;
    font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif;
    font-size: 24px;
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: space-between;
    }

.menu-link {
    color:white;
    text-decoration: none;
}

.menu-link:hover {
    text-decoration: underline;
}

.logo {
    width: 110px;
}

.headline {
    position: absolute;
    top: 180px;
    width: 100%;
    text-align: center;
    color: white;
    font-size: 30px;
    font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif;
    text-shadow: 3px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.807);
}

With absolute positioning the logo, menu and text sit on top of the picture.

What I learned

How positioning, layers and shadows work together, and that paths to pictures should be relative.