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HTML and CSS Playbook

by Chris Behrens

HTML and CSS are the fundamental tools for communicating to an Internet audience. This course will teach you a bunch of plays for your playbook and show you how to solve some interesting challenges you’ll face with HTML and CSS.

What you'll learn

In this course, HTML and CSS Playbook, you will learn tactics to solve challenges in web page development using HTML and CSS. First, you'll look at more than twenty different problems and solutions that come up in developing compelling user interfaces on the web. Next, you'll learn solutions that include masking inputs to ease the load on the user, creating HTML which is accessible to all audiences. Finally, you'll see how to work with custom fonts to create effective text for your pages, and much, much more. By the end of the course, you'll have the skills and knowledge to tackle these and many other common HTML and CSS challenges needed to create powerful web pages.

Table of contents

Course Overview
1min
Setting up Our GitHub Repo for Success
9mins
Make CSS Like Proper Code with SASS
14mins
Three Ways to Center Elements
9mins
Create a Collapsible List without Script
8mins
Make Your HTML Accessible to Everyone
9mins
Five Ways to Make Your Text More Readable
6mins
Work with Custom Fonts
4mins
Filter Your Inputs with Simple HTML
9mins
Work Effectively with Semantic HTML
13mins
Know What Works in Which Browsers
9mins
Use a UI Framework like Bootstrap
9mins
Create Compelling Animations Using Only CSS
15mins
Reduce Your HTTP Requests with CSS Image Sprites
9mins
Create Powerful Graphics with SVG in HTML
19mins
Control Your Capitalization with CSS
8mins
Make Your Links Target Different Media and Devices
11mins
Replace These Zombie Tags with Something Better
10mins
Restrict File Types in Upload Inputs
7mins
Select Multiple Files with Upload Inputs
4mins
Create Simple Data Visualization with HTML and CSS Only
13mins
Take Control Over Mobile Presentations with Media Targets
8mins
Conclusion
5mins

About the author

Chris B. Behrens is a writer, speaker and software developer, specializing in DevOps. He has been a developer and architect for more than twenty years focusing on small to medium size companies and the development changes they face. He focuses on his flavor of Fear Based Development, whereby a developer ranks their tasks in descending order of anxiety, and how to tackle them in that order. Chief among these anxiety-inducing processes is software deployment, a topic that Behrens focuses upon. He ... more

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