Modern CSS for Beginners web design getting started (Udemy.com)
CSS is a crucial part of the web development process Learn how to bring your HTML to life applying CSS to your web code
Created by: Laurence Svekis
Last updated November 2024
What you will learn
- Create amazing web designs
- Use CSS to apply effects to HTML code
- Understand CSS syntax
- Learn how to apply CSS
- Better design with CSS
- Know the best practices for Web design
How it compares
Against the other 110 rated Udemy courses in CSS on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 25% of them
- Reviews131#100 of 111 by number of reviews
- Length2 hoursshorter than 80% of them
- Last updatedNovember 2024more recently than 75% of them
Course Description
Quick Start Guide to CSS styling web pages for beginners
Includes 35+ page PDF downloadable Guide
Explore and learn how to design web pages with CSS styling. Apply CSS to bring your web pages to life. Modern CSS syntax and coding to create websites quickly and easily. Source code included so that you can try the code as you go through the lessons of the course.
Adding CSS to your HTML page from CSS file
How to select page elements CSS HTML Page Element Selection
Setting Colors for Text and Backgrounds with CSS adding Images to elements Color Value Units
What is the CSS Box Model and How to set Border Margin Padding for elements
How to apply CSS to text setting font styling,text decoration and transformations.
How to set the element display values and what display none does vs visibility property
CSS position method for HTML page Element Absolute Relative Fixed Static
How to use float to set images in line with text and position elements with CSS Element Float
CSS Pseudo-classes for hover effects and more create interactive content CSS
Pseudo-elements CSS adding content to page elements with CSS
How to create a simple template using CSS Float Layout with CSS
Create a 3 column Website layout with CSS flexbox Simple Layout Design
Modern Responsive 3 column website template with CSS Grid Quick Layout design
Adding CSS to your HTML page from CSS file :
How to add CSS to your web pages. Create a separate CSS file and link it to your HTML page. Select page elements apply styling values to the style properties. Inline line style attribute, style tag and style CSS file.
How to select page elements CSS HTML Page Element Selection
Page element selection can be done by selecting elements by tag, by class name, or by the element id attribute. All elements can be selected using a wildcard. Element selection can also be grouped by comma separation of the selectors. When planning and designing your HTML webpage elements, ensure to plan for element selection with CSS. Create elements that if needing a specific style applied, should be easy to select and unique enough that other elements won’t match the selection.
Setting Colors and Backgrounds with CSS
Colors of text and background colors can easily be applied. Different color values can be used, such as the HEX value of the color, the RGB color value, or the named color value. Background images can also be set to any page element. Using a background image, there are properties that can be set to apply images with more specific details. HEX values are in three parts, just like the RGB color values. HEX value for 0 is 00, and the highest value of 255 is FF. Using the hex value you can apply colors to the value. RGB is Red Green Blue colors, with a minimum value of 0 and a max value of 255. The highest value just like for the HEX values will apply the most of that particular color value.
What is the CSS Box Model and How to set Border Margin Padding for elements
HTML elements are in a rectangular shape, each can be thought of as a box. With the outer property of a margin, and inner with padding and content. The divider line is the border which can be set on any element. The box model wraps around the HTML element consisting of the margin, borders, padding, and content. Content dimensions of height and width can also set for the content to be contained within.
How to apply CSS to text setting font styling, text decoration and transformations.
Use CSS to update how the text looks and feels from your website. Set the text alignment within the parent element, with left right and center. How to transform text within an element to uppercase, lowercase and how to capitalize text with CSS. Font styling with italic and bold. How to add a new font family and set text font styling with CSS. Use of Google Fonts selecting a font to use from Google's web fonts.
How to set the element display values and what display none does vs visibility property
CSS element Display of block and inline and how they differ. How to use inline-block display value. What the difference is between display none and visibility hidden for HTML page elements when the CSS properties are applied.
CSS position method for HTML page Element
Setting a value for the position of a page element can be done with 5 different position values. Elements can be set in position once the property is added, setting where the element will be displayed from the bottom, top, right and left properties values. Not all the position values will work with all the properties for the positions.
How to use float to set images in line with text and position elements with CSS Element Float
Float property can be used to position elements within the container. Floating is commonly done with images so that they have the surrounding text to wrap around the image. Floats can also be used for layouts, to create columns with elements. Floats are useful properties for positioning elements within a parent element container.
CSS Pseudo-classes for hover effects and more create interactive content CSS
Pseudo classes used to define the state of an element. By default on anchor tags, these properties can set the look and feel on the various states. Pseudo classes can be applied to any element, making the element styling update on change of state.
Pseudo-elements CSS adding content to page elements with CSS
Pseudo elements can select part of an element and apply styling. They can also be used to add content before and after the content within the element selection.
How to create a simple template using CSS Float Layout with CSS
Create a simple layout that can be used as a starting template. Three column website created quickly and easily with CSS float. Explore how you can create a CSS template for your website using CSS float.
Create a 3 column Website layout with CSS flexbox Simple Layout Design
Explore how to create a 3 column website that is fully responsive and mobile ready. Create columns within the main content section, and set up the navigation bar that is responsive with CSS Flexbox. Modern web design and template with CSS Flexbox.
Modern Responsive 3 column website template with CSS Grid Quick Layout design
Use CSS grid for a modern fully responsive website that can be used as a template for more complex web design. Apply CSS Grid properties and values to create a 3 column website from scratch. Create a fully responsive navigation bar using CSS grid.
Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
131 Reviews
Laurence Svekis
Hi, I’m Laurence Svekis, and I’m here to help you learn smarter, build real skills, and confidently use AI and modern tools to create amazing things.
I’m a Google Developer Expert (GDE), international speaker, author, and educator specializing in AI-powered learning, Google Workspace automation, and practical development with Google Apps Script and JavaScript. I’ve been teaching online since 2002 and have helped over two million students worldwide develop real-world skills through hands-on courses, books, and workshops.
My passion is learning with AI—using AI not as a shortcut, but as a powerful learning partner. I focus on helping learners understand how things work, how to apply AI responsibly, and how to build tools that solve real problems. Many of my courses explore how AI can act as a tutor, assistant, or productivity booster inside everyday tools like Google Docs, Sheets, and Workspace.
I’m especially known for:
Google Apps Script & Google Workspace automation
Building AI-powered assistants and learning tools
JavaScript for real-world applications
Using AI to improve learning, productivity, and workflows
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Reviews
By Rocío Eraso on 12/13/2023
Thank you very much! You're very clear and complete. And thanks for the resourses. And sorry by my english
By Mostafa atef mohamed on 5/20/2020
Very poor material presentation and very little use of the power of CSS to show the beauty of a web page
By Pierre de Witt on 8/30/2018
This is a good course for beginners who want to learn something new about CSS after getting familiarised with HTML. It's not exactly a project-driven course but you do work with a very basic static webpage whose elements you style. I especially liked lessons about selectors and pseudo classes because it was a completely new territory for me. The instructor speaks very clearly and you can easily follow what he does. In this course, he uses Dreamweaver but with Brackets (text editor listed in the Resources PDF document) you can see the changes in real time and it's used in his newer courses. The exercises are extremely basic and I feel they are included just because it's a feature you can add. The first one even asks of you to do something you that is covered later in the course. Also, using borders and containers with different IDs to explain the box model may be confusing for some students. Use Chrome developer tools to get a better picture of what they do if you're still not sure.
By João Neves Filho on 10/29/2017
Esperava uma ponderação sobre em que casos usar margin e padding, principalmente quando trabalhar com áreas (usualmente divs) que conflitem entre si.
By Abdelrahman Mohamed Ali Mourad on 10/21/2017
I was get css before but i'm honored to take this course by this way with you doctor i'm get a new and more information which i didn't know it before . Thanks
By Dusan Milicevic on 8/4/2017
Very good course, a lot of useful and well described things. Lecture 18 is missing - it is the same as 17 - please fix this!
By Fametta McClain on 1/24/2017
Everything was well explained. He's definitely knowledgeable about the subject matter. There needs to be more coding exercises for practice; 3 is not enough.
By Faisal Q. on 1/22/2017
CSS is the beauty of the website, Mr Laurence has nicely covered the essential features of the CSS. you will feel confident in using the CSS for beautifying the website. Highly recommend this course.
By Miguel Ángel Soto Gutiérrez on 12/28/2016
A great course on CSS for beginners. The videos were clear and the instructor didn't rush too much on each topic. One thing I didn't like was that fact that the instructor had a lot of files opened so it looked confusing when coming and going from one file to the other. Apart from this, the course was excellent for someone who has no prior experience on CSS or who would like to refresh the basics.
By Andrew Norman on 9/4/2015
Great introduction to CSS and what it is. Syntax explanations are well done and clear. Thanks for the wonderful course. I can't wait to check out your other courses.
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