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Synopsis
To build web pages, sites, or apps, you need three core skills. You need to write and edit HTML, the language of the Web; wield CSS to control your pages' design; and apply key principles of efficient, attractive web layout to serve your users well. But you needn't learn everything about HTML, CSS, and web layout: just how to use them efficiently to solve real problems. In Learn Enough HTML, CSS, and Layout to be Dangerous, Lee Donahoe and renowned instructor Michael Hartl teach the specific concepts, skills, and approaches you need to do that--as you write apps, get hired, collaborate, and maybe even launch your own company. As you build a complete site and discover how everything fits together, you'll learn enough about:
- Deploying a simple but real website to the live Web right away
- Using CSS to style websites
- Mastering key layout principles for web design
- Setting up custom domains
- Controlling your online presence with custom domains and email
- Working with the Domain Name System (DNS)
- Buying and configuring your own domain name
- Receiving email at your domain with Google's G Suite
- Understanding your visitors with web analytics
- Preparing to use templating systems and professional programming languages
And much more
Even if you've never created a single web page, the authors help you quickly build technical sophistication and master the lore you need to succeed. Focused exercises help you internalize what matters, without wasting time on details pros don't care about. Soon, it'll be like you were born knowing this stuff--and you'll be suddenly, seriously dangerous.
Synopsis
All You Need to Know, and Nothing You Don't, to Start Creating and Deploying Web Sites To design, build, and deploy modern websites, you need three core skills: the ability to write and edit HTML, wield CSS to control page design, and create efficient web layouts that serve users well. But you don't need to learn everything about HTML, CSS and web layout, just how to use them efficiently to solve real problems. In Learn Enough HTML, CSS and Layout to Be Dangerous, expert developer Lee Donahoe and renowned instructor Michael Hartl teach the specific concepts, skills, and approaches you need to get the job done.
Even if you've never created a web page, the authors help you quickly build technical sophistication and master the lore you need to succeed. Focused exercises help you internalize what matters, without wasting time on details pros don't care about. Soon, it'll be like you were born knowing this stuff--and you'll be suddenly, seriously dangerous.
Learn enough about . . .
- Deploying a simple but real website to the live Web right away
- Adding advanced styling to websites, including CSS Flexbox and CSS Grid
- Installing and configuring Jekyll, a static site generator
- Getting started with templating systems and programming languages
- Mastering key layout principles for web design
- Registering and configuring custom domains, with custom URLs and email addresses
- Receiving email at your domain with Google's G Suite
- Setting up analytics to better understand your site's visitors
- Making all these technologies work well together
Michael Hartl's Learn Enough series includes books and video courses that focus on the most important parts of each subject, so you don't have to learn everything to get started--you just have to learn enough to be dangerous and solve technical problems yourself.