css-workshop's Introduction

Basic CSS Workshop

When using CSS properly, we can create powerful and beatuful web sites that are easier to develop, maintain and edit. After a short review of some basics and coverage of a few new topics, the workshop focus is on real-world CSS issues and applications.

Prerequisites

If you are a ninja or a whatever rockstar, this course is not for you. Probably you'll know all of this. But still you can contribute to it. Fork it!
You know what is a webpage and how is its basic structure of an HTML page (html, body, head, ...)
You have a basic undertanding of the main html tags (div, p, br, ul, li, ...)

Running locally

First, clone the repo and move to that folder:

git clone [email protected]:nobuti/css-workshop.git
cd css-workshop

To bootstrap the app, you'll need Ruby 2.x. Just run:

bundle install
foreman start

Then visit http://0.0.0.0:5000

Outline

This is still a work in progress, so the contents can be changed. So keep your fork in sync.

Module 1: Introduction to CSS.

You'll learn what is CSS, why it is important and how you can add styles to your pages. You'll learn what is a CSS rule, and how powerful are selectors.
Module 2: Cascading and Inheritance

You'll learn what the term cascade means, how the browser resolve conflicts between rules and how the inheritance works in CSS.
Module 3: Styling Text
Module 4: Layout with CSS
Module 5: CSS3