One of the answers I’ve submitted on CodeWars that gets a lot of comments is in response to this prompt: When provided with a number between 0-9, return it in words. Input :: 1 Output :: “One”. If your language supports it, try using a switch statement. The solution I’ve posted (which is very similar … Read more
Ever wondered how to add color to some HTML text? Or maybe set a nice background color? Or even add a background color with different opacities? This video has you covered. In it, I cover the three main ways of using color with CSS — named values, hex codes and rgb().
If you’re new to CSS, you might not know how to reference elements in order to apply styles to them. Well, in this video, we cover just how to do that. In basic CSS, there are three ways to select elements for styling: By Element By ID By Class When we want to apply style … Read more
What are inline style sheets? Well, it’s pretty much like it sounds, but in this video, I cover when to use them, how they’re different from “internal” and “external” style sheets, and how internal and external stylesheets differ and when to use those as well. This is the baseline before we start diving into other … Read more
As we dive into the absolute beginners crash course on CSS, it’s important to answer the question: what is CSS, anyway? I’ve heard it cascades, but how can a sheet cascade? Well, in the video I explain how style rules from multiple style sheets are resolved to result not only in inherited styles but also … Read more
Learn CSS in 15 minutes (even though the video is 17 minutes long). In this video, I go over wire-framing, prototyping and then styling a super basic HTML web page. If you’re completely new to CSS, this video is for you.
Have you ever wanted to embed another web page INSIDE your web page? Well, Iframes are exactly what you’re looking for (if the web page supports it, that is). In this video, I cover how to create an Iframes, how to size it and how YouTube uses Iframes to embed videos in pages … just … Read more
Forms let us gather data from a user and process it in a variety of ways, including storing registrations in a database, emails in a mailing list, sending a contact form email, and the list goes on. In this video, I cover how to create forms inside a table and all the tags that make … Read more
Tables let us format data into rows and columns — just like an Excel/Google Spreadsheet, or they let us create a layout grid (not to be confused with CSS Grids!). In this video, I explain how table rows, columns and cells work, and nested tables.
In this video, we pick up where we left off last time with learning about HTML Links and we dive into HTML Anchor Tags in combination with HTML Link tags. Now you don’t have to hunt and search for a particular place on a page — you can just link to it and jump right … Read more