Introduction to CSS Development

Learn the basics of CSS in this comprehensive course, covering styles, layouts, and advanced techniques to enhance your web development skills.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about learning CSS, the magic behind how websites look. From colors to layouts, you’ll get to know the basics and even some nifty tricks to make your site stand out a bit more. Perfect for anyone starting their web design journey!

Key Points

  • CSS controls website appearance, like colors and layouts.
  • Course covers basics and some semi-advanced techniques.
  • You'll learn about selectors, units, and layouts.
  • Includes practice exercises and external resources.
  • Focus on CSS specifics like maintainability and scalability.

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand CSS terminology and usage.
  • Learn to create basic layouts for websites.
  • Get hands-on experience with practice exercises.
  • Explore advanced techniques for layout and positioning.
  • Grasp concepts of maintainability and reusability in CSS.

About This Course

Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, is how we control what a website looks like, including colors, layouts, fonts, and more!

This course covers the basics of CSS. CSS is one of the major components in web development and web design. It allows us to control how our site and/or application will look. With CSS, we can control things like the layout, colors, and font sizes.

We’ll cover the basics of CSS, including how it works, how to make changes to the visuals of your site, and even get into some semi-advanced techniques for controlling your content.

Course Includes:

  • 9 external resource files

  • 5 practice exercises to help you master the basics

What You'll Learn:

  • CSS Terminology

  • Units

  • Inline Styles

  • Style Tags

  • CSS Files

  • Basic Selectors

  • IDs and Classes

  • Combination Selectors

  • Pseudo Selectors

  • Starter Rules

  • Basic Layout: Block, Inline, Inline-Block, Float, Clear

  • Advanced Layout: Absolute, Relative, Fixed

  • Centering Techniques: Inline, Horizontal Margin, Vertical

  • Normalize

  • Clearfix

  • Block Formatting Context

  • Architecture

  • CSS Specificity

  • Reusability

  • Maintainability

  • Modularity

  • Scalability

  • Semantics

  • And More!

  • Course Goal: Learn the basics of CSS

  • Implementing CSS

  • Basic style and layout for sites

Instructor

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RefactorU LLC

Hey folks, thank you for visiting. RefactorU was founded in late 2012 in Boulder, Colorado, and was one of the first accelerated web application development "bootcamps" in North America. Launching its first cohort in 2013, it was the first full-stack Javascript bootcamp in Colorado, the first to be approved by Colorado's Division of Private Occupational Schools, and the second bootcamp...

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4.9 course rating
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ui-avatar of Samuel Nandihal
Samuel N.
4.0
1 year ago

Good

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ui-avatar of Tyrus Escalante
Tyrus E.
5.0
1 year ago

Good training and covered a wide area for 2 hours. It was not overwhelming, perfect pace.

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ui-avatar of Daniel Rivera
Daniel R.
3.5
4 years ago

The course is good, the instructor explain clear the topics very well. but there are many properties of css that aren´t in the course, maybe the time of the course is not enough to cover all of the properties.
thank you

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ui-avatar of Ankita Pandey
Ankita P.
3.0
4 years ago

It is a good course to study

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ui-avatar of Everardo Cunha
Everardo C.
5.0
4 years ago

Very nice introduction to css. The negative side was that exercise files were broken and I could not open them at all!

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ui-avatar of Stefano Villa
Stefano V.
5.0
5 years ago

Clear explanations and a lot of useful material to work and study on.

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ui-avatar of Steeve Pierre
Steeve P.
5.0
5 years ago

hands down best CSS3 instructor I met so far

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ui-avatar of Lasma Poksane
Lasma P.
4.5
5 years ago

The course delivered a lot of new information, even when I know quite a bit about HTML and CSS. I enjoyed it!

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ui-avatar of Indramal Singh
Indramal S.
5.0
5 years ago

It is very useful for freshers or developers who are not from CSS background.

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ui-avatar of Shannell Ellington-Burns
Shannell E.
3.0
5 years ago

I feel like it would have been better to full explain what CSS is and the uses in the introduction
As to lay out a clear consensus for the course.

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