Read and review CSS Mastery, Chapter 2.
Take careful note of the sections Common Selectors, Pseudo-classes, The Cascade and Specificity.
About
Interactive 1 is a class offered at UC Denver.
Your teacher is Gordon Brander a professional front-end developer and UI designer at Crowd Favorite.
Tools
- Firebug Website inspection and debugging plugin for Firefox
- Firefox Browser for Mac and Windows.
- MAMP Apache Web Server bundled up into a Mac App (free)
- Notepad++ Free coding text editor for Windows
- Site Stub (.zip) A very simple HTML file with a stylesheet attached.
- TextWrangler Free coding text editor for Mac
- XAMPP Windows-compatible alternative to MAMP
Reference
- Class Wiki More resources.
- CSS Mastery: Code Examples Get your money’s worth and download ‘em.
- HTML Cheatsheet A list of the most commonly useful HTML elements and their meanings.
- HTML5: The Markup Language The markup portion of the HTML5 spec.
- Syllabus Class description, additional resources, etc.
- Web Standards Solutions Code Examples Download all the code examples from the book.