Your flying start into the visual and vibrant world of CSS
If you think CSS is just fonts and colors, think again. CSS is the special sauce that has taken the web from a boring, plain text world to the rich, beautiful web of today!
Powerful and dynamic, CSS is a fundamental web technology for both developers and designers. Simply put, CSS is a prerequisite for all web professionals.
This short SitePoint book provides readers with a fun and yet practical introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the language used to style and lay out all web pages. This book will quickly get you up to speed with the fundamentals of CSS and give you the confidence to start experimenting on your own.
It covers:
Layout techniques
Images, backgrounds, text
Navigation
Getting fancy with CSS3
The book is built around a real-life example project: a recipe website design. It's a fun and easily understandable project that is used to demonstrate the concepts outlined in the book in a practical way.
This is a clear, approachable and very easy-to-follow book that will get you to to speed with CSS in no time.
If you think CSS is just fonts and colors, think again. CSS is the special sauce that has taken the web from a boring, plain text world to the rich, beautiful web of today!
Powerful and dynamic, CSS is a fundamental web technology for both developers and designers. Simply put, CSS is a prerequisite for all web professionals.
What will I learn?
Get up to speed with CSS, and in just a weekend.
Nail the basics – syntax, selectors, the cascade and specificity
Use current best-practice layouts and position methods
Styling navigation, backgrounds, and embedding custom fonts
Implement state of the art responsive web design techniques
Unleash impressive CSS3 features–transitions, animations, & more ??- Design and layout a complete website from scratch with CSS
