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

by Lewis Coulson, Brett Jephson, Rob Larsen

Master HTML and CSS to create modern, stylish, and responsive websites with the help of real-world examples and hands-on activities 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. 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.

700 pages, Paperback

Published November 28, 2019

Reviews

[Johan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Thanks to the pandemic I got this book and access to the course for free.
The title sounded very promising and I was looking for a refresher course for HTML and CSS as I last used it more than 5 years ago.

The first six chapters were ok. Some typos which meant that you couldn’t copy/paste the code examples, some elements that you needed to complete the exercises but weren’t mentioned in the previous text and after a chapter you got a quiz from a more advanced chapter. I started to feel like a proofreader.

But then they started the advanced topics like canvas, animations, preprocessors, web components, ... In a book this size for beginners they had no place, except for the chapter on accessibility. If they had stuck to the first six chapters plus accessibility and expanded them, you would have had a good understanding of both topics to start building websites, gain some experience and then look for the more advanced topics.

By the time I arrived at chapter 11 I had lost interest in this book. Even in the second half of the book I felt like I was a proofreader: again some of the exercises required the use of elements that weren’t mentioned in the texts and (at least) two exercises contained the wrong video. Are editors and proofreaders endangered species?

PS: The person who did the videos has a nice voice and good pronunciation. After watching a lot of courses on Udemy, this came as a relief.