Learn Responsive Web Design

Learn Responsive Web Design

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Instructor: Kevin Powell

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

15 reviews

Intermediate level

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2 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

15 reviews

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

2 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Responsive web design, CSS, HTML

Skills you'll gain

Tools you'll learn

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Assessments

6 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 6 modules in this course

This course will take you to a professional level in responsive web design. You'll learn to build advanced layouts while solving fun coding challenges along the way.

Let me ask you a few questions: Do you want to learn to build responsive websites that look 100% professional? Do you want to be confident that your website works well on all devices? Are you tired of feeling that your CSS is a mess? If your answer is YES, then this is the perfect course for you! It gives you a deep understanding of CSS and responsive design while keeping you fully engaged along the way. You'll learn to build four different layouts: a blog, a landing page, a banner, and a company website. Each one will take your skills to a new level. To ensure that the knowledge sticks with you, you are given interactive coding challenges as you progress. It's as if you and the instructor are pair-programming together! This kind of fast-paced interactivity simply isn't possible with any other platform than Scrimba!

The learning module dives into CSS fundamentals, providing learners with a solid foundation in CSS syntax, selectors, properties, and layout techniques to effectively style and structure web pages with creativity and precision.

What's included

1 assignment26 plugins

1 assignment Total 30 minutes

CSS Fundamentals Graded Assignment 30 minutes

26 plugins Total 176 minutes

Welcome to interactive lessons! 1 minute
Welcome to the course! 4 minutes
An Important note before we start 1 minute
Introduction to the CSS Fundamentals module 3 minutes
Margin and Padding - Margins and spacing out text 5 minutes
Margin and Padding - Collapsing margins 7 minutes
Margin and Padding - Consistency and a new type of selector 5 minutes
Inline and Block elements 6 minutes
The span element 4 minutes
Styling links 12 minutes
Practice Time! 22 minutes
Inline-block 5 minutes
Styling buttons 9 minutes
Specificity basics 5 minutes
Specificity - two selectors of equal value 2 minutes
Compound Selectors 15 minutes
Compound selectors and specificity 7 minutes
A better way to name our CSS classes 9 minutes
The text properties 3 minutes
Font-family and font stacks 6 minutes
How to use Google fonts 9 minutes
Inheritance 2 minutes
Working with, overwriting, and applying inheritance 4 minutes
Putting it all together 8 minutes
Putting it all together - the CSS 18 minutes
Solution to the challenge and module wrap up 4 minutes

The learning module trains developers to adopt a responsive mindset when building websites and applications in HTML and CSS.

What's included

1 assignment45 plugins

1 assignment Total 30 minutes

Starting to Think Responsively Graded Assignment 30 minutes

45 plugins Total 246 minutes

Starting to think responsively 3 minutes
CSS Units 3 minutes
CSS Units - Percentage 6 minutes
Controlling the width of images 5 minutes
min-width and max-width 3 minutes
CSS Units - The em unit 5 minutes
The problem with ems 2 minutes
CSS Units - rems 5 minutes
Picking which unit to use 4 minutes
ems and rems - an example 8 minutes
Flexbox refresher and setting up some HTML 8 minutes
Basic styles and setting up the columns 7 minutes
Adding the background color 4 minutes
Setting the column widths 4 minutes
Spacing out the columns 4 minutes
Controlling the vertical position of flex items 5 minutes
Media Query basics 10 minutes
Making our layout responsive with flex-direction 7 minutes
flex-direction explained 3 minutes
Creating a navigation 5 minutes
Using flexbox to start styling our navigation 8 minutes
Making our navigation look good 7 minutes
Adding the underline 4 minutes
A more complicated navigation 7 minutes
Making the navigation responsive 7 minutes
Taking a look at the rest of the project 4 minutes
Setting up the structure 8 minutes
Featured article structure 5 minutes
The home page - HTML for the recent articles 2 minutes
home page - html for the aside 6 minutes
Starting the CSS for our page 15 minutes
Starting the layout - looking at the big picture 9 minutes
Starting to think mobile first 3 minutes
Styling the featured article 6 minutes
Changing the visual order with flexbox 5 minutes
Playing with the title's position, and the downsides of negative margins 5 minutes
Styling recent articles for large screens 8 minutes
Changing image sizes with object-fit 4 minutes
Setting up the widgets and talking breakpoints 7 minutes
Using a new pseudo-class to wrap-up the homepage 7 minutes
Creating the recent posts page 3 minutes
Setting up the About Me page 4 minutes
Fixing up some loose ends 4 minutes
Important Note: The viewport meta tag 4 minutes
Module wrap up 3 minutes

Elevates your styling skills in HTML and CSS, and equip yourself with advanced techniques and best practices to create visually stunning and polished web designs.

What's included

1 assignment38 plugins

1 assignment Total 25 minutes

Stepping Up Our Style Graded Assignment 25 minutes

38 plugins Total 172 minutes

It's time to step up our style 3 minutes
A look at line-height 5 minutes
text-transform: uppercase 4 minutes
Making things easier to read with letter-spacing 4 minutes
A nice color trick with rgba() 5 minutes
background-images 4 minutes
Background images and the file path (very important note) 2 minutes
Controlling our background images 8 minutes
BBQ Splash Page - Project Introduction 3 minutes
Writing the HTML for the BBQ splash page 7 minutes
Starting to style it up - BBQ Splash Page 11 minutes
Adding the background image - BBQ Splash Page 4 minutes
Changing the order - BBQ Splash Page 4 minutes
Styling the main content area - BBQ Splash page 3 minutes
Adding the media query - BBQ Splash Page 4 minutes
Setting up the typography for large screens - BBQ Splash Page 2 minutes
Starting to set things up for large screens - BBQ Splash Page 3 minutes
Viewport units 7 minutes
Adding viewport units to the BBQ Splash Page 2 minutes
Enter box-sizing: border-box 7 minutes
Using flexbox to vertically center the main content - BBQ Splash Page 3 minutes
Fixing the intro section on both small and large screens - BBQ Splash Page 3 minutes
Dealing with very large screens solution #1 4 minutes
Dealing with very big screens solution #2 5 minutes
The very basics of forms 11 minutes
Form basics - form attributes 4 minutes
The basics of styling form 5 minutes
Adding the form - BBQ Splash Page 4 minutes
Starting to style up the form - BBQ Splash Page 4 minutes
Making the inputs look good - BBQ Splash Page 4 minutes
CSS Gradients 6 minutes
Styling the button - BBQ Splash Page 5 minutes
Basic transitions 5 minutes
Intro to transforms (and a quick word on performance) 3 minutes
We can transition more than :hover 3 minutes
Border gradients 5 minutes
Blending images, colors, and gradients with background-blend-mode 4 minutes
Wrap up 2 minutes

This module takes your understanding of Flexbox to new heights, exploring advanced concepts and techniques that maximize the power of Flexbox for building complex and responsive layouts

What's included

1 assignment17 plugins

1 assignment Total 15 minutes

Taking Flexbox to the Next Level Graded Assignment 15 minutes

17 plugins Total 76 minutes

Taking flexbox to the next level 2 minutes
flex-direction, flex-wrap, and flex-flow 5 minutes
justify-content and align-items and their relationship to flex-direction 7 minutes
Exploring align-content 4 minutes
flex-grow and flex-shrink explained 5 minutes
flex-basis 4 minutes
The flex shorthand property 4 minutes
Aligning individual elements with align-self 2 minutes
Margin auto and flexbox 4 minutes
Building a card component with flexbox - Introduction 3 minutes
Building a card component with flexbox - The markup 5 minutes
Building a card component with flexbox - Typography 6 minutes
Building a card component with flexbox - Mobile layout 11 minutes
Building a card component with flexbox - Large screens part one 5 minutes
Building a card component with flexbox - Large screens part two 5 minutes
Centering something on the screen with flexbox 2 minutes
Module wrap-up 2 minutes

Unleash the power of CSS Grid, allowing you to create versatile and intricate page layouts with ease, precision, and responsive capabilities.

What's included

1 assignment19 plugins

1 assignment Total 25 minutes

CSS Grid: The Ultimate Layout Tool Graded Assignment 25 minutes

19 plugins Total 96 minutes

Introduction to CSS Grid 3 minutes
Setting up a basic grid 5 minutes
Placing items on the grid 4 minutes
grid-row and grid-column shorthands 5 minutes
Spanning columns 2 minutes
Some similarities to flexbox 5 minutes
Using grid for our card component 13 minutes
The grid-gap property 3 minutes
Adding the gap to our card 3 minutes
The implicit and explicit grid 6 minutes
Exploring grid areas 8 minutes
grid-areas and media queries 6 minutes
minmax() 4 minutes
the fr unit 3 minutes
minmax() and the fr unit 2 minutes
Putting grid to use - part 1 12 minutes
Putting grid to use - part 2 4 minutes
repeat() 3 minutes
auto-fit and auto-fill 5 minutes

Discover how to craft stunning and feature-rich web designs with exceptional functionality and aesthetic finesse.

What's included

1 assignment29 plugins

1 assignment Total 20 minutes

Taking it to the Next Level Graded Assignment 20 minutes

29 plugins Total 121 minutes

Taking it to the next level 2 minutes
Analyzing the layouts 3 minutes
Starting work on the homepage 3 minutes
The HTML for the homepage 4 minutes
The first lines of CSS you should always write 4 minutes
Setting up our grid for small screens 3 minutes
Continuing the hero area 5 minutes
The "info" section 4 minutes
Setting up the footer 3 minutes
Using Font Awesome for our icons 5 minutes
Wrapping up the footer 2 minutes
Setting up the grid and hero for larger screens 5 minutes
Setting up the rest of the page for larger screens 6 minutes
Starting to style our navigation 3 minutes
Setting up our navigation for small screens with positioning 5 minutes
Making the close button 3 minutes
Adding the open button to our navigation 4 minutes
Styling the navigation for large screens 2 minutes
Fixing up the navigation and hero area 6 minutes
Creating the second page 2 minutes
Styling the about page 9 minutes
Exploring box-shadows to get the effect on our images 5 minutes
Using pseudo-elements to add the yellow lines 5 minutes
Adding the yellow bar to our titles 3 minutes
Creating the contact page 4 minutes
Styling the contact form 7 minutes
Styling the contact form for larger screens 6 minutes
The loose ends 5 minutes
You did it! 3 minutes

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Reviewed on Sep 30, 2023

Detailed, hands-on and fun. This course simplifies intimidating CSS concepts like Flex-box, CSS Grid and Media - Queries. The instructor is amazing. Thanks so much for this terrific course.

Reviewed on Dec 23, 2023

I have been following Kevin from youtube, he really puts of the great content, I really like the way he teaches to make site responsive effortlessly

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