CSS Master Course: For Beginners

About this course

This course will take your CSS skills from the absolute basic to advanced.  You'll learn everything you need to know to create complex layouts and elegant designs. During the course, we'll create 4 unique CSS projects, those projects will be covered in sections 6, 8, 10 and 12.Course MapSection 2) Basic CSS - This is the first real section of the course.  This section starts off by assuming 0 knowledge of CSS.  As so, I will start off by breaking down in detail the concept of a CSS rule and then move on to basic selectors.  Before the end of this section you'll have all the skills necessary to alter and typographic and backgrounds elements of your web pages.Section 3) The Box Model - This section will breakdown the CSS box model.  The box model is perhaps the most important concept that a web developer must understand before they can start creating any sort of layouts.  I'll also cover in this section how to set the height and width of HTML elements.Section 4) CSS Units - Up until this section we'll have only used pixels for unit sizes.  Pixels are great for some things, but not optimal for everything.  This section will show you how you can use relative units to make your projects easier to maintain.Section 5) Positioning - CSS positioning can be a pretty complex thing, but it doesn't have to be.  This section will simplify many of the more complicated CSS properties.  Most notably things like floats, absolute positioning, vertical align, etc.  After this section, you'll have the tools to create nearly and layout you'll ever need to create.Section 7) Advanced Selectors - CSS offers many different types of selectors and also allows combining those selectors to create an even more specific selection.  This section will also introduce you to pseudo classes &