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Professional CSS3

By : Piotr Sikora
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Professional CSS3

By: Piotr Sikora

Overview of this book

CSS is the preferred technology to design modern web pages. Although CSS is often perceived as a simple language, applying modern styles to web pages with CSS and maintaining the code for larger websites can be quite tricky. We will take you right from understanding CSS to designing high-quality web pages in CSS3. We'll quickly take you through CSS3's features, and show you how to resolve common issues so you can build your basic framework. Finally, you will learn about code architecture and CSS methodologies used in scalable apps and you'll explore the various new features of CSS3, such as FlexBox, to help you create the most modern layout methodologies. By the end of the book, you will be a master at creating pure CSS web pages and will know sophisticated web design techniques, giving you an edge over other web designers.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Professional CSS3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 1. Foundations and Tools

It is important to learn about the foundations in each area. You need to have basic information to be a professional. Good usage of tools is almost as important as the foundation. Without good tools, your foundation won't be used well.

This chapter is about tools that will help to build better CSS code. It describes features of preprocessors and finally the foundation knowledge about SASS. In this chapter, you can get basic knowledge about automatization of repeatable processes in frontend development with GULP.js. Finally, you can find an example of file structure, which will partialize your project into small, easy to edit, and maintainable files.

In this chapter, we will:

  • Learn about the usage of preprocessors.

  • Create a CSS project with a proper structure.