edX: Try It: CSS Fundamentals

This Try It: CSS Fundamentals course will show you how to achieve beautiful web design and teach you to combine HTML and CSS to create something gorgeous via lines of code. Now, CSS on its own doesn’t do anything — when you add a CSS page to HTML coding and other technologies, however, that’s when the CSS styling comes into play. Through combining CSS and HTML, suddenly a web page becomes visually interesting, interactive, and engaging. For example, the navigation on a website is now made up of buttons that are different colors, navigation can be sticky, words appear in different sizes and colors, content has spacing, animations can be added, decorative features appear, and so much more. In this course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of CSS, and:

• How to style basic HTML elements
• How to style existing web pages

You’ll also learn some of the terms that every developer needs to know. By the end of the course, you’ll understand what every line of CSS code is trying to accomplish. After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Style HTML elements using CSS selectors
• Link CSS stylesheets to HTML files