Learning CSS

Course details

As a modern day web designer, it is very critical for you to prepare for the CSS3 world we live in. A major challenge that designers face in their day-to-day life is making their designs stand out from the rest and ensuring they work on all devices and platforms. The birth of CSS3 brings with it many updates that make designing in HTML easier and more appealing. CSS adds excitement to HTML elements, and allows designers to add color; manipulate layouts, size, and position; enhance the visuals of element objects; and much more.

Learning CSS gives you the introduction you need to start creating web pages that are visual marvels with CSS. Dealing with the absolute fundamentals of CSS, this video course gives you everything you need to know to enhance and embellish HTML web pages.

Before we plunge into the world of CSS, we are going to start off by playing around with CSS scripts, learning about styles, rules, and inspecting HTML elements. We'll then investigate HTML selection using classes, IDs, and elements. Then, we will make our website visually stimulating using colors. We will be introduced to CSS selectors, implementing colors, and manipulating the size and position of objects and layouts on the page and in relation to each other.

We'll get better and better by making the elements of our website interact with each other and tweaking the layout so our web page works on all digital devices, thereby enhancing its appeal. Finally, we'll get to grips with techniques for text and content manipulation to enhance the look and feel of our site.

Learning CSS will give you a flying start at creating stunning websites, arming you with all the know-how you'll need to incorporate CSS into your workflow

About The Author

Ben Fhala discovered his passion for data visualization while he was working at Parsons in New York, in their data visualization department, PIIM. He is the owner of the online video training school and an Adobe ACP. He enjoys spending most of his time learning and teaching, and has a love for visual programming and visualization in general. Ben has had the honor of developing applications for members of the US Congress, Prime Ministers, and Presidents around the world.

He has built many interactive experiences for companies such as Target, AT&T, Crayola, Marriott, Neutrogena, and Nokia. He has technically directed many award-winning projects and has been part of teams that have won three Agency of the Year awards.

Among Ben's publications are HTML5 Graphing and Data Visualization Cookbook, and five video courses: jQuery UI Development; Learning Object-Oriented JavaScript; Mastering JavaScript; JavaScript Design Patterns; Web Visualization with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, all for Packt Publishing.