New Course Modern Responsive Web Design Source Code CSS and HTML CSS Grid Design website Free PDF guide included

Modern Responsive Web Design Source Code CSS and HTML CSS Grid Design website

Modern Responsive Web Design Source Code CSS and HTML CSS Grid Design website

Explore how you can create a website, apply CSS to HTML page elements for modern real world website design.  Create a basic HTML CSS website template that you can use as a base structure for creating more websites.  Setup the HTML page elements, including the header footer and main content area.  Add a navigation bar and side menu.  The upcoming lessons will help you learn to apply CSS to HTML elements.  HTML and CSS are prerequisites as this course is designed to demonstrate applying and practicing CSS skills.   

Learn how to create a website from scratch.

  • HTML CSS Grid Template Setup
  • CSS NavBar with CSS Grid
  • Web Design Content
  • Media Query Final Updates

HTML CSS Grid Template Setup for the basic page structure

Plan a basic HTML structure using the semantic tags. Link to a stylesheet and apply display grid to the parent element. display: grid; Setup the row heights within the grid-template-rows Set the columns for the main and aside within the grid-template-columns Set a start and end grid column for the elements that go across the entire full width. grid-column-start: 1; grid-column-end: 3;

How to add a responsive CSS NavBar using CSS Grid styling blocks

How to set up a navigation bar using CSS Grid. Apply and set the display to the grid of the parent element. Set the column template to create separate columns for each navigation bar item. Update the list items, remove the default styling of the unordered list items, to create navbar blocks. Add hover effect for the mouse over highlight of the nav bar item blocks.

Adding Placeholder content and Web Design styling with CSS

When creating web pages, often the final content is not ready. You can use placeholder content, like images and lorem ipsum text in place of content which can get added later. The placeholder or dummy content can be used while designing your website so that the pages have a real look and feel to them. This is perfect for web design and testing of responsive and positioning of page elements with CSS. Apply CSS styling and make adjustments to fit the content as desired. This lesson will apply styling to the page elements, including the header with titles and slogan. The main content area and adding images that appear as a thumbnail type style. Setting the aside content to separate as content blocks. Creating a two column footer using CSS grid styling.

CSS setting Media Query with Final CSS style Updates

Resize and stack columns as rows on screen sizes less than 640px. Add the media query and make adjustments to the look and feel of the website on smaller screens. Test out the styling and preview how it adjusts to different size screens. Use the placeholder content to simulate real website content to be added afterwards.

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