CSS3 Foundations

  • 4h 27m
  • Ian Lunn
  • John Wiley & Sons (UK)
  • 2013

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.

About the Author

IAN LUNN (DEVON, UK) 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. Ian's enthusiasm for utilizing cutting edge technologies is matched by his dedication for advocating them; sharing his knowledge with the community, in the form of blog tutorials and open source projects.

In this Book

  • Understanding CSS and the Modern Web
  • Getting Started
  • Mastering the Power of CSS Selectors
  • Creating Styles Using Property Values
  • Adding Presentational Styles
  • Creating a Basic Page Structure
  • Creating Space and Understanding the Box Model
  • Creating a Multicolumn Layout
  • Understanding Display, Position, and Document Flow
  • Changing the Font
  • Styling Fonts and Text
  • Adding 2D Transforms
  • Going Beyond with 3D Transforms
  • Bringing Your Website to Life with Transitions and Animations
  • Testing Across Multiple Browsers
  • Making Your Website Look Great Across Multiple Devices
  • Final Steps and Conclusion
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