The HTML and CSS Workshop: Learn to build your own websites and kickstart your career as a web designer or developer

Lewis Coulson

Marian Zburlea

Matt Park

Brett Jephson

$17.99 ~~$26.99~~

3.3 (7 Ratings)

eBook Nov 2019 700 pages 1st Edition

Lewis Coulson

Marian Zburlea

Matt Park

Brett Jephson

$17.99 ~~$26.99~~

3.3 (7 Ratings)

eBook Nov 2019 700 pages 1st Edition

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Learn HTML and CSS to produce highly functional and appealing websites
Overcome common challenges in web design and development
Ensure that your websites are accessible and engaging on all devices

Description

With knowledge of CSS and HTML, you can build visually appealing, interactive websites without relying on website-building tools that come with lots of pre-packaged restrictions. The HTML and CSS Workshop takes you on a journey to learning how to create beautiful websites using your own content, understanding how they work, and how to manage them long-term. The book begins by introducing you to HTML5 and CSS3, and takes you through the process of website development with easy-to-follow steps. Exploring how the browser renders websites from code to display, you'll advance to adding a cinematic experience to your website by incorporating video and audio elements into your code. You'll also use JavaScript to add interactivity to your site, integrate HTML forms for capturing user data, incorporate animations to create slick transitions, and build stunning themes using advanced CSS. You'll also get to grips with mobile-first development using responsive design and media queries, to ensure your sites perform well on any device. Throughout the book, you'll work on engaging projects, including a video store home page that you will iteratively add functionality to as you learn new skills. By the end of this Workshop, you'll have gained the confidence to creatively tackle your own ambitious web development projects.

Who is this book for?

Ideal for beginners, this Workshop is designed for anyone who is new to HTML and CSS who wants to learn to design and maintain their own websites.

What you will learn

Understand how websites are built, structured, and styled
Master the syntax and structure of HTML and CSS
Know how to build websites from scratch using HTML5 and CSS3
Create intuitive forms that allow users to input data
Style your website by integrating videos, animations, and themes
Design robust websites that work on all modern devices seamlessly
Discover how to maintain and improve the performance of a website

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Andrew Lavine Aug 22, 2020

good textbook for a beginner comp sci course

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Joseph R. Orlando Mar 08, 2020

A pragmatic, thoughtful and superb presentation. This volume provides a map of novel applications of the CSS and HTLM Paradigm.

Retired Husband Feb 19, 2021

This is an excellent advanced web programming book. So far, I'm using it as a reference. It could also be used in a classroom. I'm glad I bought the Kindle version so I can search instantly. Yes, I recommend it.

William Hall Mar 06, 2021

The Packt HTML and CSS Workshop is a great reference book for both beginners and experienced web designers and developers. It is chock full of information,including many activities to immerse yourself fully in coding your own site. The CSS section covers all you need to know about CSS, the box model, and flexand grid layouts. Many people, myself included, like to skip wireframing altogether, but thought it is very basic, it is also very needed to know where youare heading with the layout and design. There is a small section on wireframing in this book, which is helpful in reminding me to always mock up my sites.Other sections of the book cover text, fonts, media queries for mobile, media, audio and video, and animations. Another critical aspect of good design isaccessibilty, and the book covers that as well. I thought the book was, overall, very helpful and informative for anyone with a desire to learn HTML and CSS,and the art of creating not only great looking, but also functional websites and apps.

turnabout Mar 31, 2020

Learning HTML and CSS together makes sense and helps to ease the boredom of starting with only HTML. The topic content is kept to a tolerable level and exercises seem to be presented just in time to break up any monotony.Additionally, the exercises are written to make one think, as there is very minimal hand-holding (thank you!). After all, who wants to just "type what I tell you?" End of chapter Activities build upon what was taught by challenging one to perform the task by presenting the final output and listing only general tasks to reach the goal. Solutions are thoughtfully provided in case one is stuck working on an activity.I suggest using Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) searches to work through any ambiguities, errors, or missing content that one will encounter, or to just reinforce a topic.The Video Store activity is interesting, but I wish it was presented more cohesively — as a main project — throughout the book.There was Javascript — and way too much of it in what was expected to be an introduction to HTML and CSS. Please, save the Javascript for a different book!Also, too little training was provided on the basics of colors. I would highly recommend that Chapter 5: Themes, Colors, and Polish be replaced with something more to the point of the discussion of colors. This chapter was too complicated and seemed as if the author just wanted to plug his site or otherwise show readers his Wordpress prowess.My personal recommendation for the 2nd Edition is to remove Chapters 10, 11, 12, and 13 (those belong in an Advanced CSS/SCSS publication); replace Chapter 5 with a simpler discussion of colors; eliminate the Canvas topic from Chapter 7 and rewrite other sections of the chapter as needed to remove Javascript usage.This recommendation would allow for the expansion of the other chapters by allowing the addition of more exercises and explanatory text. Also, explanatory comments within the code samples would be welcomed.Hopefully, the 2nd Edition will focus more on HTML and CSS as "Ideal for those who are looking to get started," and less on Javascript.

The HTML and CSS Workshop: Learn to build your own websites and kickstart your career as a web designer or developer

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