8 Of The Best Free CSS Tutorial Videos
8 Of The Best Free CSS Tutorial Videos
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Below is a collection of the best videos on CSS available on the web, hand-picked personally by me.
Short Introductory Videos
Using CSS by Joseph Lowery (03:43)
This video explains what cascading style sheets (CSS) are. You learn the basics of CSS and the primary interfaces in Dreamweaver to work with CSS. You learn how to apply basic CSS to a web page that contains text using Dreamweaver; specifically, you create and embed a new CSS rule for a heading and paragraph
Introduction To CSS Editing Using Firebug by Jim Plush (3:17)
The firebug firefox extension allows you to edit in real time your CSS code. Instead of having to make a change, reload, make a change, reload you can just edit it live to see the results.
Basics With Sample Code
Introduction to CSS by Heather James (15:26)
Good basic introduction to CSS. In the first half of the video, she explains what CSS is and its basic concepts. In the second half of the video she shows us some examples. At one point she even uses Firebug. Cool!
Creating Beautiful Interfaces with CSS by Douglas Bowman (01:02:51)
Drop-down menus and sophisticated interface elements have traditionally been implemented using JavaScript and kludgy coding workarounds that often don’t work. It’s increasingly practical to deliver rich, beautiful, functional interfaces using semantic markup and CSS. Learn how modern markup can deliver great Web interfaces that are fast and reliable.
Basic HTML and CSS Tutorial. How To Make Website From Scratch by Jimmy Ruska (39:20)
A good basic tutorial on HTML and CSS. The first 10 minutes covers mostly basic HTML. Skip to the 9-minute mark to go straight to the CSS portion of the video.
Introduction to CSS by Stefan Mischook
A good, free video tutorial by Stefan Mischook of Killersites.com
Full Website Conversion Videos
100% CSS Web Design Series by Psmeg
A series of videos which details how to create a pure CSS based website using Adobe Dreamweaver. The series is composed of 9 parts nonetheless it is quite good and very easy to follow.
Converting a Photoshop Mockup Series by Chris Coyier
How to convert a website designed in Adobe Photoshop to HTML/CSS. Following the success of the first video series, Chris Coyier has come up with another video using a minimal version of the CSS-Tricks website.
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Recently I have been working on a social networking site that was experiencing downtime due to the amount of stress its users were putting on the server. I spent a good amount of time looking for ways to improve the speed of the site, and one of this was through CSS optimization.
Structure your CSS and HTML elegantly
“CSS” Stands for Cascading Style Sheets. Notice the first word, “Cascading”? The power of this language is readily available, and it is up to you, the designer, to maximize its use. It is an interesting concept that is not too difficult to grasp. Try to find instances wherein this can be applied.
For example, the code below:
<p class="someClass">First</p>
<p class=”someClass”>Second</p>
<p class=”someClass”>Third</p>
<p class=”someClass”>Forth</p>
<p class=”someClass”>Fifth</p>
Can be rewritten this way:
<div class="someClass">
<p>First</p>
<p>Second</p>
<p>Third</p>
<p>Forth</p>
<p>Fifth</p>
</div>
But what if our code looks like this:
<p class="firstClass">First</p>
<p class=”someClass”>Second</p>
<p class=”someClass”>Third</p>
<p class=”someClass”>Forth</p>
<p class=”someClass”>Fifth</p>
We can take advantage of CSS by rewriting HTML this way:
<div class="someClass">
<p class="firstClass">First</p>
<p>Second</p>
<p>Third</p>
<p>Forth</p>
<p>Fifth</p>
</div>
Then, cascade rules defined in “firstClass” to overwrite styling principles in “someClass”.
This is just one simple example, and I hope you understand what I’m trying to get at. Just keep in mind the concept of cascading rules and it won’t be long before things like this become second nature and automatic.
Re-structure your CSS
I am a huge fan of single line CSS style. Not only does it save up space, it is also more readable. The readability bit is debatable, though. Simply put, I find it easier to locate relevant tags if the tag names are all on the same left-hand side and I do not have to scroll so much to find what I need to change. After all, designers are only concerned with CSS selectors, not the rules that are applied to it.
Optimize Your CSS
Some time ago, I wrote an article about improving website performance using CSS optimizers. I still use CSS Optimiser up to this day. For very large CSS files it is a quick and easy way to rewrite things that may otherwise prove too time-consuming to optimize manuallyt.
Use CSS Shorthand Rules
When I was still learning CSS, I found shorthand rules to be quite daunting and confusing at times. But I strived to learn the shorthand syntax for every rule simply because I am lazy and do not want to bother typing the same thing over and over not to mention having to memorize all the rule names.
Compare the example longhand its equivalent shorthand below.
Original longhand:
#someid {
background-attachment: fixed;
background-color: #000000;
background-image: url(images/image.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left bottom;
}
Shorthand version:
#someid { background: #000 url(images/image.png) no-repeat fixed left bottom; }
The folks over at SitePoint has a good introduction to the art of CSS Shorthand that I can recommend to anyone who’s willing to learn.
Server-side Compression
Server-side compression techniques have long been put to use by large scale applications for two main reasons. First, bandwidth is precious and expensive. Second, it does not require having to modify code for it to work. What it does require, however, is supported server software (or hardware). Hence the term “server-side”.
One such solution can easily be deployed on Apache servers. Once again SitePoint has written an introduction to server-side compression using Apache and mod_gzip.
The drawback to this is increased CPU load. Indeed, server-side compression is a double-edged sword, but usually the pros far outweigh the cons.