Tiny CSS Projects
Author(s): Michael Gearon (Author), Martine Dowden (Author)
- Publisher: Manning Publications
- Publication Date: 11 Oct. 2023
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 275 pages
- ISBN-10: 1633439836
- ISBN-13: 9781633439832
Book Description
Explore numerous techniques to improve the way you write CSS as you build 12 tiny projects.
For readers who know the basics of HTML and frontend development. No previous experience of CSS is required.
In Tiny CSS Projects, you will build twelve exciting and useful web projects with CSS ― a must-know tool. This textbook teaches you how to make beautiful websites and applications by gilding you through a dozen fun coding challenges.
You will learn important skills through hands-on practice as you tinker with your own coding and will make actual creative decisions about the projects you re building.
You will rapidly master the basic features, including
- A loading screen created by styling SVG graphics
- A responsive newspaper layout with multi-columns
- Animating social media buttons with pseudo-elements
- Designing layouts using CSS grids
- Summary cards that utilise hover interactions
- Styling forms to make them more appealing to your users
The projects may be tiny, but the CSS skills you will learn are huge! Press on with CSS s exciting layout features, including grid and flexbox, animations, transitions, and media queries.
About the technology
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) make the web beautiful. Where HTML structures a page and JavaScript gives it additional functionality, CSS handles colours, layouts, and typography ― everything your users love about your site. While CSS is an established tool used in almost all production websites, it s also evolving to include new features.
Editorial Reviews
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“This book has a great mix of practical patterns that could be applied to many applications, combined with a thorough explanation of how they work.”
Nick McGinness
“It helps people fall in love with CSS.”
Danilo Zekovic
“Perfect as a reference manual.”
Ricardo Marotti
“I gained a deeper understanding of CSS after reading the book.”
Ranjit Sahai
From the Back Cover
Tiny CSS Projects develops your CSS skills through 12 delightfully creative mini-projects. Each project sets you up with a premade HTML skeleton to use as a foundation for your work. You will build up your portfolio of common and useful web designs including a loading screen, eCommerce checkout, and animated social media buttons. As you tackle each tiny project, you will learn about animation, transitions, layout, styling forms, and even typography. All the skills you master are easy to transfer to full-size applications!
About the reader
For readers who know the basics of HTML and frontend development. No previous experience of CSS is required.
About the Author
Michael Gearon is a user experience designer and frontend developer from Wales, UK. He studied BSc Media Technology at the University of South Wales whilst practising coding and design. Since then, Mike has worked with well-known UK brands―including Go. Compare and in the Civil Service at Companies House and Government Digital Service (GDS), to improve the interaction between the user and services and look at the overall flow as well as the individual design elements.
Martine Dowden is an author, international speaker, and award-winning CTO of Andromeda Galactic Solutions. Her expertise includes psychology, design, art, accessibility, education, consulting, and software development. Tiny CSS Projects is her fourth book about web technologies and draws from 15 years of experience building web interfaces that are beautiful, functional, and accessible. For her community contributions, Martine has been awarded both as a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies and a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and Angular.
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