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Discussion on: What are some project ideas that beginners can work on to show in their portfolio?

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Bob van Hoove • Edited

In addition to many great suggestions in this thread, here is another idea:

Many websites are hard to read on wide screens because the lines are too long and the distance between lines is too small. I often find myself going into the developer toolbar to add the following CSS properties:

p { max-width: 40em; line-height: 1.5em; }

Somtimes I adjust the line height a little but that 40em seems right in general.

Now I could save myself some time by writing a browser plugin to do that for me via a button click.

A couple of interesting properties of this project would be:

  • It's small
  • Scope is well defined
  • It solves a problem for me :)

Now ideally it should solve a problem for you. Just trying to show it doesn't have to be a huge thing. Mini-projects are great to get the ball rolling.