Spice up your site | Easy waves, angles, & other creative shapes with CSS
Channel: Kevin Powell
Date: 2023-01-31

The web is made of boxes, and boxes are bland, boring, and all look the same.

We can spice things up with bringing in some angels, shapes, and waves like these, which makes things a heck of a lot more interesting.

In this tutorial, we’ll see how we can take one of those typical, boring layouts and make it spicy by using a few different CSS techniques.

🔗 Links 
✅ Finished code: https://github.com/kevin-powell/creative-section-shapes
✅ The ::before and ::after pseudo-elements explained: https://youtu.be/zGiirUiWslI
✅ Intro to mask-image: https://youtu.be/FCuNtCq3nRg
✅ SVG Path Editor: https://yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/
✅ Wavy shape generator: https://css-generators.com/wavy-shapes/

⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:21 - Goals for creating each of these
01:40 - Project set up
02:06 - The HTML
05:37 - General CSS stylings
08:14 - CSS - the diagonal section
15:20 - CSS - the spiky section
17:42 - Making a triangle SVG
20:09 - CSS - continuing the spiky section
31:17 - CSS - the wavy section

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