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Natalie Maclees
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contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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Time for action – creating a tiled layout with different width items


Perform the following steps to take the tiled layout we've already created and to make it work for items with different widths:

  1. First, we need to create items of different widths. A few of the items in the layout have images that are landscape rather than portrait orientation, which means those items appear particularly small in the layout. Let's make those the width of two columns so they stand out more. Go back to the HTML file for the list of items and add a class of w2 to each item that will now be two columns wide:

    <li class="cat w2">
      <figure>
        <img src="images/himalayan.jpg">
        <figcaption>
          <h2>Himalayan</h2>
        </figcaption>
      </figure>
      <div class="info">
        ...
      </div>
    </li>
  2. Next, open your styles.css file and style these items with a wider width. As all items are of full width at narrow screen sizes, we only have to add the new width...

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contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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