Working with Colors and Images in CSS
The web is an essentially visual medium, and that means working with colors and images. This course will teach you the different ways web pages create color and display images, and how to choose the right methods to deliver them in your content.
What you'll learn
Learning HTML is mostly intuitive when working with text - but the path for colors and images is less obvious.
In this CSS Training course, Working with Colors and Images in CSS, you’ll learn the different ways to express color and images with CSS in HTML.
- First, you’ll explore the different ways we can describe a color in HTML code.
- Next, you’ll discover the differences between image formats and when to choose each.
- Finally, you’ll learn how to detach all of this from your HTML content with CSS.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Structuring Your Styling Content 2m
- Demo: Structuring Your Styling Content 5m
- Bundling and Caching 2m
- Content Security Policies 4m
- What Is Missing in CSS? 3m
- Demo: SASS in Action 3m
- Some Additional SASS Features You’ll Like 2m
- What About Functional Styles? 1m
- Demo: Functional Styles 4m
- Demo: A Stunning Example of Extreme CSS 1m
- Where to Go from Here 2m
Course FAQ
This course is great for beginners who are familiar with HTML and next want to dive into the different ways web pages create color and display images, and how to choose the right methods to deliver them in your content.
Explore the different ways we can describe a color in HTML code, discover the differences between image formats and when to choose each, and learn how to detach all of this from your HTML content with CSS.
Before beginning the course, you should be familiar with HTML and the internet in general.
About the author
Chris B. Behrens is a writer, speaker and software developer, specializing in DevOps. He has been a developer and architect for more than twenty years focusing on small to medium size companies and the development changes they face. He focuses on his flavor of Fear Based Development, whereby a developer ranks their tasks in descending order of anxiety, and how to tackle them in that order. Chief among these anxiety-inducing processes is software deployment, a topic that Behrens focuses upon. He ... more