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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)

Workflow for HiDPI Devices

Retina devices are now almost the default for Apple computers, tablets, and phones. Also, the word "retina" is actually trademarked by Apple for computer equipment, and is their branded way of describing double(or more)-density screens and devices. I'm going to use the word "retina" loosely to describe any device that has a high-density display, whether its made by Apple or not. Everything on a retina device is sharper and crisper because there are nearly four times the pixels as there are in a CSS device's display; for every "CSS pixel", there are now four "device pixels", allowing higher quality displays. The downside is that the images we've used so far are actually not going to look so good on such a device because we haven't accounted for higher density displays.

In this chapter, we&apos...