CSS Mastery
by Andy Budd
Andy Budd teaches all the tricks in his book and some that were too hot for publication (or too long).
By the end of this course you’ll have a full understanding of the CSS positioning model and how to create complicated layouts. You’ll know how to create the most sought-after techniques such as flexible, rounded corner boxes, PNG transparency and advanced list manipulation. More importantly, you’ll learn how to work around browser inconsistencies to create truly flexible pages.
Andy really enjoys teaching this workshop not least because at the end, in the pub, everyone says how great it was and asks him to run it again.
This course is a perfect for intermediate developers who understand the basics of CSS and have been using it for several months.
- Setting the foundations with meaningful markup.
- How a CSS rule is structured.
- Doctypes and Quirks Mode.
- Basic CSS selectors.
- The Cascade and specificity.
- Planning, organising and maintaining your CSS.
- The CSS box model.
- Images, background positioning and opacity.
- Advanced form layout.
- Fixed, liquid and elastic layouts.
- Bugs, hacks and filters.
- Budd’s 6 laws of bug fixing.
Andy is a founding partner and Managing Director of Clearleft. He also goes by the title of User Experience Director depending what mood he’s in. Andy is the author of CSS Mastery, curates the dConstruct and UX London events and is responsible for Silverback, a low cost usability testing application for the Mac.