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Tiny CSS Projects

By: Michael Gearon,Martine Dowden

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CSS is a must-know tool for all web developers. In this practical book, you’ll explore numerous techniques to improve the way you write CSS as you build 12 tiny projects. The projects may be tiny, but the CSS skills you’ll learn are huge! Tiny CSS Projects teaches you how to make beautiful websites and applications by guiding you through a dozen fun coding challenges. Tiny CSS Projects develops your CSS skills through twelve delightfully creative mini-projects. Each project sets you up with a premade HTML skeleton for you to use as a foundation for your work. You’ll build up your portfolio of common and useful web designs, including a loading screen, an eCommerce checkout, and animated social media buttons. As you tackle each tiny project, you’ll learn about animation, transitions, layout, styling forms, and even typography. All the skills you master are easy to transfer to full-size applications! Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

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1633439836

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Architecting CSS

The Programmer’s Guide to Effective Style Sheets

By: Martine Dowden,Michael Dowden

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Architecting CSS

The Programmer’s Guide to Effective Style Sheets

By: Martine Dowden,Michael Dowden

Leverage various CSS features in combination with popular architectures in order to bring your style sheets back under your control. While CSS is the primary technology used for building beautiful web user interfaces, the style sheet files themselves are often quite ugly; left chaotic and unstructured through lack of a consistent architectural approach. By addressing the structure of your style sheets in the same way that you do with code, see how it is possible to create style rules that are clean and easy to read. Dig deep into CSS fundamentals and learn how to use the available selectors to build powerful rules. You will learn how to use cascading, inheritance, pseudo-classes, pre-processors, and components to produce cleaner, DRY-er style sheets, and how to let these features work for you instead of leading you down the road of rule duplication and design inconsistencies. Embrace the clean, semantic HTML to make your code easier to read, while supporting accessibility and assistive technologies. Separate the concerns of layout and style to simplify dynamic theming and white labeling, making you a marketing hero. Once you've finished this book you will have an advanced knowledge of CSS structures and architectural patterns that will take the pain out of style sheets for you (and your coworkers), and help you implement designs faster and easier than ever before. What You'll Learn Understand the core CSS fundamentals of Inheritance, Cascading, and SpecificityWork with architecture and design patterns for better organization and maintenance Maximize code reuse with CSS precompilersReview the strengths and weaknesses of popular architecture patterns Who This Book Is For Primarily for front-end web developers and UI designers and anyone who works with CSS, particularly if they find it cumbersome and inelegant. It’s also suitable for software architects and tech leads who are responsible for the maintainability of their code base.

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1484257502

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Tiny CSS Projects

By: Martine Dowden,Michael Gearon

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Tiny CSS Projects

By: Martine Dowden,Michael Gearon

CSS is a must-know language for all web developers. In this practical book, you’ll explore numerous techniques to improve the way you write CSS as you build 12 tiny projects. In Tiny CSS Projects you’ll build twelve exciting and useful web projects including: A loading screen created by styling SVG graphics A responsive newspaper layout with multiple columns Animating social media buttons with pseudo-elements Designing layouts using CSS grids Summary cards that utilize hover interactions Styling forms to make them more appealing to your users The projects may be tiny, but the CSS skills you’ll learn are huge! Tiny CSS Projects teaches you how to make beautiful websites and applications by guiding you through a dozen fun coding challenges. You’ll learn important skills through hands-on practice as you tinker with your own code and make real creative decisions about the projects you’re building. You’ll rapidly master the basics and then press on into CSS’s exciting layout features including grid and flexbox, animations, transitions, and media queries. About the Technology Don’t settle for boring web pages! With Cascading Style Sheets you can control color, layout, and typography to make your sites both functional and beautiful. CSS is a essential skill for web developers and designers. This book will help you get started the right way. About the Book Tiny CSS Projects builds your CSS skills by guiding you through 12 creative mini-projects. Each interesting challenge starts with a downloadable HTML skeleton. As you flesh it out with your own design ideas, you’ll master CSS concepts like transitions, layout, and styling forms, and explore powerful features including Flexbox and Grid. All the skills you’ll learn are easy to transfer to full-size applications. When you finish, you’ll have an exciting portfolio of designs ready to go for your next project. What's Inside Transitions and animations using keyframes Layout techniques including Grid and Flexbox Styling form elements including radio buttons Embedding fonts and typography-related styles Conditional styling using pseudo-elements and media queries About the reader For readers who know the basics of HTML and frontend development. No previous experience with CSS is required. About the author Martine Dowden is an author, speaker, and award-winning CTO. Michael Gearon is a user experience designer and frontend developer who has worked with many well-known brands. Table of Contents 1 CSS introduction 2 Designing a layout using CSS Grid 3 Creating a responsive animated loading screen 4 Creating a responsive web newspaper layout 5 Summary cards with hover interactions 6 Creating a profile card 7 Harnessing the full power of float 8 Designing a checkout cart 9 Creating a virtual credit card 10 Styling forms 11 Animated social media share links 12 Using preprocessors

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1638352070

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Approachable Accessibility

Planning for Success

By: Martine Dowden,Michael Dowden

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Approachable Accessibility

Planning for Success

By: Martine Dowden,Michael Dowden

Understand the realities of modern web accessibility and what considerations should be made to include everyone. There are hundreds of millions of people who are being left out every single day on the web due to disability or circumstance. The purpose of web accessibility is to remove barriers and bring the information, services, and functionality of the web to as many people as possible so they can be included in this global community. This book makes the topic of web accessibility as approachable as possible to help every web professional become an accessibility advocate at their companies, on their projects, and in their communities. This discussion will go beyond the buzzword to explore the impact our designs and decisions have on real people, along with the ethical, legal, and financial incentives for accessibility prioritization. For those who are ready to get started the book covers tools and techniques for testing websites or web applications for conformance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Because we very rarely work in a vacuum the book also covers how to educate your team or company management on web accessibility as well as persuading them to invest time and money in accessibility. For those looking to start an accessibility practice at their company – or simply to ensure that nothing slips through the cracks – the book includes a guide to creating your very own accessibility action plan. Having a well-documented plan of action is an essential step in the long-term success of any initiative. Get started with web accessibility using Approachable Accessibility today. What You'll Learn Discover various ways that website design can exclude or even harm users Gain an understanding of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Put together an accessibility action plan for your organization Explore tools and techniques for evaluating your existing websites Who This Book Is For Web designers and developers who want to know more about web accessibility or just want to know how to get started; tech leaders who need help building an accessibility practice or convincing their company to invest in web accessibility; project managers and owners making scope decisions for a project.

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Approachable Accessibility

Planning for Success

By: Martine Dowden,Michael Dowden

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Architecting CSS

The Programmer’s Guide to Effective Style Sheets

By: Martine Dowden,Michael Dowden

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