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Mastering CSS

By : Rich Finelli
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Mastering CSS

By: Rich Finelli

Overview of this book

Rich Finelli trains you in CSS deep learning and shows you the techniques you need to work in the world of responsive, feature-rich web applications. Based on his bestselling Mastering CSS training video, you can now learn with Rich in this book! Rich shares with you his skills in creating advanced layouts, and the critical CSS insights you need for responsive web designs, fonts, transitions, animations, and using flexbox. Rich begins your CSS training with a review of CSS best practices, such as using a good text editor to automate your authoring and setting up a CSS baseline. You then move on to create a responsive layout making use of floats and stylable drop-down menus, with Rich guiding you toward a modular-organized approach to CSS. Your training with Rich Finelli then dives into detail about working with CSS and the best solutions to make your websites work. You'll go with him into CSS3 properties, transforms, transitions, and animations. You’ll gain his understanding of responsive web designs, web fonts, icon fonts, and the techniques used to support retina devices. Rich expands your knowledge of CSS so you can master one of the most valuable tools in modern web design.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Google Web Fonts

Hosting your own web fonts and using proper CSS to support all browsers is slightly challenging. There are much easier ways to go about this. I really like Google Fonts; they are very easy to use and 100 percent free. The quality of the fonts is very good as well. In this section, we'll replace our hosted fonts with Google Web Fonts. The first step is to go to Google Fonts and select the two fonts we'll be using. Add a link to the CSS file in the heading of both HTML documents. Then finally, add the font name to our CSS.

Finding Google Fonts

Go to https://fonts.google.com/ and search for our headline font: Maven. What's cool is that we can type in some text, say, our site title, to see how specific...