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The Complete Advanced Guide to CSS

Gain insights into advanced CSS concepts, delve into responsive design, explore animations, learn practical projects, and discover powerful tools. Perfect for backend engineers and budding developers.

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102 Lessons

10h

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Course Overview

My Goal is to take you from a beginner (or intermediate) CSS user to becoming one of the best CSS devs you know! 👉🏻 COURSE CONTENT? 1. A detailed look at CSS Fundamentals 2. Practical SVG for today 3. A Sane Guide to Responsive Design 4. Creating sleek Interfaces with CSS Animations and Transitions 5. Writing Maintainable CSS and tips for CSS at Scale 6. Learn the CSS Grid by Building ... wait for it! 😉 7. Get a Private slack Invite where you can ask me anything 8. Gain a Solid Understanding of CSS Fu...Show More

Course Content

Introduction

5 Lessons

Get familiar with CSS basics, practical exercises, and community support for mastering skills.

Why I Wrote this Course

How to get the most out of this course

What to do when you get stuck

What you will learn in this Course

{New} Join the Slack Community

Getting started with CSS

3 Lessons

Look at the fundamentals of CSS, including rules, selectors, declarations, and comments.

Getting Started: Baby Steps

How CSS rules work

Multiple Declarations and Comments

Oh My Selectors!

4 Lessons

Work your way through mastering CSS selectors, from basic types to advanced pseudo-classes and elements.

A Quick Look at CSS Selectors: Type Selectors

CSS Selectors - again!

Best Practices for Selecting Elements

One Final Look at CSS Selectors

CSS Fundamentals Everyone Should Know

3 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of default browser styles, cascade, inheritance, order, and specificity in CSS.

How Default Browser Styles Affect a Document

The Concept of Cascade and Inheritance in CSS

Understanding Order and Specificity in CSS

Colors, colors, colors!

2 Lessons

Solve problems in CSS color usage with color names, RGB, RGBA, HEX, and practical tools.

Making sense of Colors in CSS

Practical Color Tools

We all Need Units

10 Lessons

Follow the process of using various CSS units for precise, responsive web design.

Making Sense of Units in CSS

Pixels

Points and Picas

Ems

The problem with the EM unit.

Typography in CSS

5 Lessons

Piece together the parts of effective font usage in CSS, enhancing design readability.

Beginning with Type in CSS

The font stack

Serif and Sans-Serif

Monospace, Cursive and Fantasy

5 Font Tips You Should Know

The Box Model

6 Lessons

Get familiar with the CSS box model's structure, including content, padding, borders, and margins.

Introducing the Box Model

The Box Model - in Examples.

The Padding Area

Borders

The Margin Area

Practical: Applying Padding and Margins

Challenge: Hands-on Practice with Texts, Margin, Padding and Borders

3 Lessons

Get started with CSS challenges to master text formatting, margin, padding, and borders.

Introducing Challenges

The Problem

The Solution

10.

Getting creative with Backgrounds

5 Lessons

Break apart various properties and techniques for creative CSS background images.

Getting started with Background Images

To repeat or not repeat?

Sizing Background Images

Sizing Backgrounds Using Keywords

Sizing Backgrounds Using Length Measurements

11.

Project: Build a Movie Order Page

9 Lessons

Apply your skills to build a movie order page with effective CSS styling techniques.

What we will Build

Initial Styling

Planning and Investigation

Understanding Box Sizing

Fixing Our UI problems

How Background Positions Work

How to Position Backgrounds in CSS

The Background Shorthand Property

Final Polish

12.

Making Sense of CSS Gradients

4 Lessons

Explore creating CSS gradients, understanding linear gradients, their background image function, and gradient transitions.

Introducing Gradients

Linear Gradients

Gradients are background Images!

How Linear Gradients really Work

13.

Hands-on Practice with Gradients

6 Lessons

Tackle coding national flags with CSS gradients to reinforce practical application skills.

Problem: The French National Flag with Gradients

Solution: The French National Flag with Gradients

Problem: The German National Flag with Gradients

Solution: The German National Flag with Gradients

Problem: The Republic of the Congo Flag with Gradients

Solution: The Republic of Congo National Flag

14.

Project: Build a Sign Up Page for a Startup

6 Lessons

Practice using CSS to create an effective sign-up page with proper structure and styling.

Introduction

Getting the Document Structure Right

Initial Styling

Flexbox Crash Course

Web Fonts, Rounded Corners and Rounded Images

The Final Steps

15.

{New} Teach Me Positioning Like I'm Five

7 Lessons

Learn how to use CSS positioning, pseudo-elements, and box-shadow for creative web design.

Introduction

Beginning the Project

Dealing with CSS Generated Content

The CSS Positioning Lesson You Never Had

Putting Positioning to Practice

Building Realistic CSS Effects with Box-shadow

I Never Get Satisfied. Do You?

16.

{New} A Detailed Look at CSS Variables ( a.k.a Custom Properties )

7 Lessons

Discover the logic behind CSS variables, their applications, syntax, best practices, and browser support.

Introduction

What you’ll Learn

Getting Started with Variables

Using CSS Variables

Properties Worthy of Mention

Common Mistakes and Gotchas

What about Browser Support?

17.

{New} CSS Variables Real World Applications

3 Lessons

Master the steps to efficiently use CSS variables in component design, theming, and dynamic styling.

Creating Component Variations using CSS Variables

Creating Themed Sites with CSS Variables

Building the CSS Variable Booth 🤣

18.

{New} Long Live the CSS Grid

10 Lessons

Apply your skills to create responsive and dynamic web layouts using CSS Grid and Flexbox.

Introduction

Basic CSS Grid Terminologies You Should Know

CSS Grid, Baby Steps

Time to Code — CSS Grid, Hands-on

Naming and Positioning Items by Grid Areas

Grid area placement

Responsive Design — Redefining Grid Areas with Media Queries

Placing Content within the Grid.

Making CSS Grid work with Flexbox

Conclusion

19.

Final Words

4 Lessons

Solve problems in real-world CSS applications, career advancement, feedback engagement, and further connections.

Real World Use Cases

Where To Go From Here

{New} The One Thing You Can do For Me

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