The CSS Video Crash Course

Take your skills to the next level:
learn CSS in under 3 hours!

Want to learn CSS but don’t have time to read a book? In this 8-part video series, you’ll learn CSS from scratch by following along with SitePoint author and web technology guru Kevin Yank.

• Drastically improve the load time of your sites and slash your bandwidth bills!
• Tweak and modify the design of your site by modifying a single file!
• Get a grip on the code as it is written and explained line-by-line!
• This video crash course will get you up to speed in under 3 hours!

Free Video: An Introduction to CSS (17:40)

A strong grasp of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is vital to producing high-quality web sites that not only look good but load fast and are easy to maintain down the line.

In this introductory video, you’ll learn about how CSS changes the way you design web sites. Instead of embedding page layout, text styles, and other presentation information in the HTML code of each of your pages, you can write a single file that controls the look of every page on your site.

What you’ll learn:

• Save time coding and make it easier to maintain your sites with CSS.
• Understand basic CSS terminology: selectors, properties, and rules.
• Choose whether to code using inline, embedded, or external styles.

Videos 1 & 2: CSS Selectors (40:56)

To control the appearance of your web pages with CSS, you need to be able to choose HTML elements to apply your styles to. CSS selectors let you specify one or more elements to receive a particular style, while leaving the rest of the page unchanged. Think of selectors as masking tape that you apply to your page before laying down a coat of paint.

The better you understand the range of selectors that CSS supports, the more fine control you’ll have over the appearance of elements on your web pages.

What you’ll learn:

• Override the default style of any HTML tag with your own look.
• Single out individual elements in your pages to style separately.
• Create new types of HTML elements to receive special styles.
• Add dynamic effects such as hyperlink mouseover styles.

Videos 3 & 4: Text Properties (35:41)

With your brushes in hand, it’s time to start painting. CSS properties control the look of elements in your page, and in these videos you’ll take a tour of the properties that control the look of text. Colors, fonts, and other special effects… all the properties you need are right here.

What you’ll learn:

• Take complete control of fonts, colors, alignment, and indentation.
• Apply and combine italic, bold, and small-caps effects to any HTML tag.
• Experiment with line, word, and character spacing to achieve a unique look.

Video 5: Inheritance (13:10 mins)

Inheritance is a subtle concept that often escapes even experienced web designers. Can you use CSS without “getting” inheritance? Definitely. But a solid grasp of inheritance opens up a lot of CSS’s true power, and that’s what you’ll learn in this video.

What you’ll learn:

• Understand the power and the limits of the special inherit property value.
• Distinguish between inherited and noninherited properties.
• Use inheritance to cut down on repetitive code in your style sheets.

Video 6: The Cascade (25:21 mins)

Like inheritance on steroids, cascading is the process that controls how multiple rules in your style sheets can apply properties to a single element in the page. Cascading is the ‘C’ in CSS, so as you can imagine it’s kind of important. It’s also the most widely misunderstood aspect of CSS design.

What you’ll learn:

• Turn conflicting rules in your style sheets to your advantage.
• Control the priority of your CSS rules with selector specificity.
• Understand the !important modifier, and why you should avoid it.

Video 7: What’s Next? (12:45 mins)

With all the fundamentals under your belt, you’re well on your way to CSS mastery. This video gets you up to speed on the latest software (most of it free) that can make CSS design easier. Finally, you’ll find out where the best resources can be found to build your CSS expertise.

What you’ll learn:

• Complete your knowledge of the many CSS properties with a good reference.
• Learn the tricks of the trade from the work of CSS experts.
• Take full advantage of Dreamweaver’s CSS support, and that of free tools like Firebug.

How to Order these Videos

You'll be able to watch The CSS Video Crash Course straight away after you've placed your order. You can purchase each video individually for $7.95, or buy the entire series of 8 videos for just $29.95.

That's $63.60 worth of CSS videos for just $29.95!

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