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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)

Styling the call-to-action button

We've really come a long way in this chapter with regard to styling buttons. Now it's time to add one more. In the final site, we also have a call-to-action button on the home page that needs to be built. In this section, let's walk through each step of styling the call-to-action button. First, we'll add the HTML, then position it properly and add the appropriate CSS; finally, we'll add a nice hover effect to it.

Here's our current site:

The following is the final site that we're aiming for, and the Go Premium call-to-action button is what we'll be creating:

Adding the HTML

Let's add the markup t0 our index.html file. In the Intro Section use...