Master innovative and eye-catching website design with the exciting new Treehouse Series of books
Turn plain words and images into stunning websites with CSS3 and this beautiful, full-color guide. Taking web designers beyond the constraints of prebuilt themes and simple site-building tools, this new Treehouse book combines practicality with inspiration to show you how to create fully customized, modern websites that make viewers stop and stay.
The exciting new Treehouse Series of books is authored by Treehouse experts and packed with innovative design ideas and practical skill-building. If you’re a web developer, web designer, hobbyist, or career-changer, every book in this practical new series should be on your bookshelf.
Part of the new Treehouse Series of books, teaching you effective and compelling website development and design, helping you build practical skills
Provides career-worthy information from Treehouse industry pros and trainers
Explains the basics of cascading style sheets (CSS), such as how to structure with CSS, use CSS syntax, how to manipulate text, and visual formatting
Also covers the box model, how to animate page elements, cross-browser compatibility, and more
Leverage pages of dazzling website design ideas and expert instruction with a new Treehouse Series book.
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From the Inside Flap
TAKE YOUR WEB DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT KNOW-HOW TO AN EXCITING NEW LEVEL
Html is fun when you’re first learning how to use it to build a website. But when you add CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to the mix, the experience—and your web pages—become magical. CSS3 Foundations takes you beyond the pre-fab themes and simple site-building tools found in most books, and provides you with the knowledge and tools you need to turn humdrum words and images into dazzling websites that draw visitors in and make them want to stay.
Whether you’re a novice or an experience developer who’d like to take your skills to the next level, word-class developer Ian Lunn fills you in on all the CSS3 you need to know, including how to:
Develop with CSS for desktop and mobile browsers
Master CSS syntax
Create multi-column page layouts
Use media types and media queries
Manipulate text and fonts
Execute visual formatting
Jazz up your pages with transforms
Bring pages to life with transitions and animations
Build cross-browser compatible websites
Fine-tune your workflow with best practices
Like all the books in the Treehouse series, CSS3 Foundations is designed to help you expand your skill set and broaden your professional horizons, whether you’re a hobbyist looking to go pro, a freelancer who wants to expand your client base, or an entrepreneur who want to know how to create a website fully customized for your company and your market niche.
From the Back Cover
TAKE YOUR WEB DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT KNOW-HOW TO AN EXCITING NEW LEVEL
Html is fun when you’re first learning how to use it to build a website. But when you add CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to the mix, the experience―and your web pages―become magical. CSS3 Foundations takes you beyond the pre-fab themes and simple site-building tools found in most books, and provides you with the knowledge and tools you need to turn humdrum words and images into dazzling websites that draw visitors in and make them want to stay.
Whether you’re a novice or an experience developer who’d like to take your skills to the next level, word-class developer Ian Lunn fills you in on all the CSS3 you need to know, including how to:
Develop with CSS for desktop and mobile browsers
Master CSS syntax
Create multi-column page layouts
Use media types and media queries
Manipulate text and fonts
Execute visual formatting
Jazz up your pages with transforms
Bring pages to life with transitions and animations
Build cross-browser compatible websites
Fine-tune your workflow with best practices
Like all the books in the Treehouse series, CSS3 Foundations is designed to help you expand your skill set and broaden your professional horizons, whether you’re a hobbyist looking to go pro, a freelancer who wants to expand your client base, or an entrepreneur who want to know how to create a website fully customized for your company and your market niche.
About the Author
Ian Lunn (@IanLunn) is a freelance front end developer, passionate about building the future of the web using technologies such as CSS3 and HTML5. With a Higher National Diploma in Internet Technology, Ian combines his education with expertise in CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and WordPress to build creative and effective websites and applications.
Treehouse is a consortium of web and software designers and developers whose mission is to bring affordable technology education to people everywhere, in order to help them achieve their dreams and change the world. In keeping with that mission, the Treehouse Series of books are authorized by experts and loaded with innovative design ideas and practical skill -building instruction. If you’re a web developer, web designer, hobbyist, or career -changer, every book in the series belongs on your bookshelf.
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