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The HTML and CSS Workshop

By : Lewis Coulson, Brett Jephson, Matt Park, Marian Zburlea
Book Image

The HTML and CSS Workshop

By: Lewis Coulson, Brett Jephson, Matt Park, Marian Zburlea

Overview of this book

With knowledge of CSS and HTML, you can build visually appealing, interactive websites without relying on website-building tools that come with lots of pre-packaged restrictions. The HTML and CSS Workshop takes you on a journey to learning how to create beautiful websites using your own content, understanding how they work, and how to manage them long-term. The book begins by introducing you to HTML5 and CSS3, and takes you through the process of website development with easy-to-follow steps. Exploring how the browser renders websites from code to display, you'll advance to adding a cinematic experience to your website by incorporating video and audio elements into your code. You'll also use JavaScript to add interactivity to your site, integrate HTML forms for capturing user data, incorporate animations to create slick transitions, and build stunning themes using advanced CSS. You'll also get to grips with mobile-first development using responsive design and media queries, to ensure your sites perform well on any device. Throughout the book, you'll work on engaging projects, including a video store home page that you will iteratively add functionality to as you learn new skills. By the end of this Workshop, you'll have gained the confidence to creatively tackle your own ambitious web development projects.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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2. Structure and Layout
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3. Text and Typography
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5. Themes, Colors, and Polish
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6. Responsive Web Design and Media Queries
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7. Media – Audio, Video, and Canvas
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12. Web Components

11. Maintainable CSS

Overview

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to write CSS code using the BEM approach and explain semantic CSS; describe componentization and rule grouping and apply these principles while writing CSS code; write maintainable SCSS with sensible file and folder structures; and implement CSS best practices to create better maintainable code. This chapter introduces the concept of maintainable CSS in terms of what it looks like and how we go about creating it. With the knowledge that's given in this chapter, you will be able to create more manageable CSS codebases in SCSS and make your web projects more future-ready for changes and other developers to pick up easily.