CSS: Gradients

12 years ago
1h 13m – Beginner Join Justin Seeley as he introduces gradients, a somewhat hidden strength of CSS that allows you to add depth and texture to your web designs while reducing load times—creating a better viewing experience for your visitors versus static images. Discover how to create ...

CSS: Animations

12 years ago
1h 56m – Intermediate This course presents a short series of CSS animation techniques, such as looping, playing, and pausing, and puts them together in a small project: an animated infographic. Author Val Head also addresses using CSS preprocessors, adding transitions, handling vendor ...

CSS: Visual Optimization

12 years ago
1h 11m – Beginner Take a tour of a workflow that optimizes CSS code for easier navigation, organization, and readability. In this course, author Justin Seeley covers best practices for writing CSS in an easy-to-read format, commenting code, developing a table of contents, and adopting ...

CSS: Frameworks and Grids

12 years ago
3h 27m – Beginner Have you wondered if using a CSS framework will speed up your site development? In this course, senior author James Williamson introduces the types of frameworks available—including the most popular choices among working web developers—and provides an honest ...

Responsive Design with Drupal

12 years ago
2h 38m Intermediate In this course, Chaz Chumley takes you through the process of transitioning a Drupal website to a responsive model that automatically tailors and sizes content for a wide range of displays, from desktops to mobile devices. The course starts with setting up the Drupal ...

Up and Running with NoSQL Databases

12 years ago
56m 57s – Intermediate Explore the possibilities NoSQL databases offer developers for unparalleled flexibility and performance. In this course, author Joseph LeBlanc shows how to build an entire web application with CouchDB and introduces techniques such as querying with JavaScript, ...

Creating an Effective Content Strategy for Your Website

12 years ago
1h 54m – Appropriate for all Discover what it takes to be a content strategist: what they do, how do they do it, and why content strategy is so increasingly valued on the web (and a hot job category). Author Janine Warner shows you how to analyze, prioritize, and think strategically ...

Fundamentals of Software Version Control

12 years ago
2h 55m – Intermediate This course is a gateway to learning software version control (SVC), process management, and collaboration techniques. Author Michael Lehman reviews the history of version control and demonstrates the fundamental concepts: check-in/checkout, forking, merging, ...

HTML5 Projects: Engaging Ecommerce

12 years ago
37m 29s – Intermediate The HTML5 Projects series combines HTML5, CSS3, and recent JavaScript API technologies to work—enhancing your web projects with interactivity and multimedia. This installment shows you how to build features that allow visitors to your online store to filter ...

Responsive Design Workflows

12 years ago
1h 20m – Beginner Perplexed by the challenges introduced into design by all the mobile devices appearing on the market? This course shows how to evolve your current workflow to incorporate responsive design practices, without adding too much complexity or overhead. Author Justin ...

Responsive Design Fundamentals

12 years ago
2h 15m – Beginner Web projects need to work across multiple devices, screen sizes, and browsing contexts. Web designs need to be responsive to these variables, providing an optimal viewing experience for each scenario. In this course, author James Williamson introduces responsive ...

SEO: Link Building in Depth

12 years ago
2h 27m – Intermediate There are two sides to search engine optimization (SEO): on-page and off-page optimization. Off-page means getting links from other websites to point back to your site, which strengthens your site’s position in search engine results. In this course, author ...

EaselJS First Look

12 years ago
1h 28m – Beginner EaselJS is a free JavaScript library that makes creating interactive web content for HTML5 more straightforward and intuitive. This course transitions web designers, animators, and content creators who may be used to working with Adobe Flash and ActionScript to this ...

SEO Fundamentals

12 years ago
3h 29m – Beginner In this course, author David Booth explains what search engine optimization (SEO) is and how you can start using it to increase your website’s visibility to search engines and attract the right kind of traffic to the right kinds of pages on your site. Discover ...

Git Essential Training

12 years ago
6h 26m – Beginner The course shows how to use Git, the popular open-source version control software, to manage changes to source code and text files. Using a step-by-step approach, author Kevin Skoglund presents the commands that enable efficient code management and reveals the ...

WordPress: Building Responsive Themes

12 years ago
2h 55m – Intermediate The many ways visitors access web sites, via mobile devices, tablets, and desktops, now requires sites to incorporate responsive design elements that adapt to different screen sizes and browsers. In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen demonstrates design ...

Start with a Theme: Creative Portfolios in WordPress

12 years ago
1h 3m – Beginner Discover how to set up a portfolio of your work using WordPress and three free themes that result in three unique looks. This Start with a Theme installment focuses on how to get a portfolio site up and running and how to configure the theme options to best suit your ...

CSS: Transitions and Transforms

12 years ago
2h 25m – Intermediate With robust and ever-increasing browser support, it is now possible to take advantage of expressive CSS3 capabilities across modern browsers. In this course, Joseph Lowery explores the possibilities of the new coding options, which animate well over 50 different ...

PHP 5.4 New Features

12 years ago
1h 1m – Intermediate In this course, author Drew Falkman shows how to install the latest version of PHP, the popular web application server, and reviews the performance enhancements and language improvements in the 5.4 release, including short array syntax, function arrays, and ...

Dreamweaver with PHP and MySQL

12 years ago
4h 55m – Intermediate Join author David Gassner as he describes how to add dynamic data to a PHP-enabled web site in Adobe Dreamweaver. This intermediate course shows how to plan and create a MySQL database, define a PHP-enabled site in Dreamweaver, connect the site to the database, ...