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Mark Okoh

Hi Marie! Thanks for your post - very interesting knowing how you learned to code. Llama Life is great! Haven't tried it yet, but it looks super stylish and well designed. Did you just use CSS for the layout or did you use a framework like Bootstrap or Tailwind? Looks like you really grasped Javascript and React. Where did you get the Llama illustrations - did you do them yourself?

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marie ng

Thanks Mark! I used React Bootstrap for the grid layout of the landing page and a few modals, but the rest is custom. The llama illustrations I got from Adobe Stock but then edited them. Adobe Stock gives you a 30 day free trial (I think) and 10 images included with that. Even if you cancel you retain the licences for whatever you download.

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Mark Okoh

Ok cool. Will checkout Adobe Stock. I'll probably write post like yours about how i learned to code (mainly self-taught too). Here's the first project I did - onyourfrequency.com/
It's all vanilla Javascript - learning Vue JS now to keep the project more organized in the future.

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marie ng

Just took a quick look. Great stuff and congrats for pushing the project out!