The Complete Advanced Guide to CSS

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 Animatio... See More

How You'll Learn

Hands-on coding environments

You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.

Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

No set-up required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Hands-on coding environments

You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.

Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

No set-up required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Course Contents

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1. Introduction

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

2. Getting started with CSS

Getting Started: Baby Steps

How CSS rules work

Multiple Declarations and Comments

3. Oh My Selectors!

A Quick Look at CSS Selectors: Type Selectors

CSS Selectors - again!

Best Practices for Selecting Elements

One Final Look at CSS Selectors

4. CSS Fundamentals Everyone Should Know

How Default Browser Styles Affect a Document

The Concept of Cascade and Inheritance in CSS

Understanding Order and Specificity in CSS

5. Colors, colors, colors!

Making sense of Colors in CSS

Practical Color Tools

6. We all Need Units

Making Sense of Units in CSS

Pixels

Points and Picas

Ems

The problem with the EM unit.

Rems

Exes

Percentages

vh and vw

vmin and vmax

7. Typography in CSS

Beginning with Type in CSS

The font stack

Serif and Sans-Serif

Monospace, Cursive and Fantasy

5 Font Tips You Should Know

8. The Box Model

Introducing the Box Model

The Box Model - in Examples.

The Padding Area

Borders

The Margin Area

Practical: Applying Padding and Margins

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

Introducing Challenges

The Problem

The Solution

10. Getting creative with Backgrounds

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

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

Introducing Gradients

Linear Gradients

Gradients are background Images!

How Linear Gradients really Work

13. Hands-on Practice with Gradients

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

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

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 )

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

Creating Component Variations using CSS Variables

Creating Themed Sites with CSS Variables

Building the CSS Variable Booth 🤣

18. {New} Long Live the CSS Grid

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

Real World Use Cases

Where To Go From Here

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