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Responsive Web Design with HTML 5 & CSS
Equipping you with the most up-to-date tools available, Minnick's RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN WITH HTML 5 & CSS, 9th edition, teaches you step by step how to design professional quality websites that attract and retain customers. Packed with best practices and tips from the pros, the text gives you a solid foundation in HTML, CSS and responsive web design. It shows you how to create one website that automatically adapts to mobile, tablet, laptop and desktop devices as well as large monitors. You will learn how to code a webpage to make a phone call from a mobile device, embed a map, use custom fonts, create shortcut navigation menus, integrate social media to promote a business and more. In addition, you will use popular web framework Bootstrap to create a webpage. Also MindTap digital learning solution.
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640 pages, Paperback
Published February 6, 2020
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December 20, 2023
Great primer, relevant material (even in 2023), immediately actionable for a newbie web developer.
A great starter book for learning HTML and CSS and a tiny bit of JavaScript at the end of the book. It's got projects you can do, but you can't get the files for those projects unless you're in a class, which I was (though you could probably do an approximation with creative commons images from Unsplash or the like). Each chapter teaches you concepts and then the chapter guides you in using those concepts to develop a progressively more complex website as the book goes along. In addition, there are assignments to complete at the end of each chapter that build on the knowledge you've learned using a text editor you get access to through Mindtap (provided you're in a class...I'm not sure if it's available outside of a class environment).
I found the book made the concepts fairly easy to learn and I enjoyed going through the projects each week. I can't however say how helpful the book would be if you didn't have access to the files for the projects. I think you could do the projects with creative commons images, but the examples in the book wouldn't translate directly and I think that would make it pretty hard to work through if you're totally new to programming. The information in the book is still relevant though and would be a decent primer even without working through the projects.
I will return to the book as a reference in the future since the material was really helpful and informative. There were only a couple instance where css class names were out of date (nothing a quick internet search couldn't solve), so even though the book was published quite a while ago, all the information is still relevant. I especially like that it teaches newer sematic elements like main, nav, footer, etc. as well as the box grid method of styling a page, and how to do media queries.
I learned a lot and I was able to immediately use what I learned not only in the example projects, but for a job developing a website with a team of other people. I was mostly doing grunt work like copying styles from Figma (a design editor used by the company I did work for) to the React, HTML, and CSS pages. But the work ended up being way too much to do and too little time to do it. The advantage for me was that thanks to this book, whenever I learned something new, I was able to take the initiative and either problem solve or go work on something that needed done (making tables, making a sticky nav, adding scrollbars, using the box grid to style pages, etc. etc.). All that to say the book is immediately useful for anyone working on web development if you have a project where you can get in and get your hands dirty.
A great starter book for learning HTML and CSS and a tiny bit of JavaScript at the end of the book. It's got projects you can do, but you can't get the files for those projects unless you're in a class, which I was (though you could probably do an approximation with creative commons images from Unsplash or the like). Each chapter teaches you concepts and then the chapter guides you in using those concepts to develop a progressively more complex website as the book goes along. In addition, there are assignments to complete at the end of each chapter that build on the knowledge you've learned using a text editor you get access to through Mindtap (provided you're in a class...I'm not sure if it's available outside of a class environment).
I found the book made the concepts fairly easy to learn and I enjoyed going through the projects each week. I can't however say how helpful the book would be if you didn't have access to the files for the projects. I think you could do the projects with creative commons images, but the examples in the book wouldn't translate directly and I think that would make it pretty hard to work through if you're totally new to programming. The information in the book is still relevant though and would be a decent primer even without working through the projects.
I will return to the book as a reference in the future since the material was really helpful and informative. There were only a couple instance where css class names were out of date (nothing a quick internet search couldn't solve), so even though the book was published quite a while ago, all the information is still relevant. I especially like that it teaches newer sematic elements like main, nav, footer, etc. as well as the box grid method of styling a page, and how to do media queries.
I learned a lot and I was able to immediately use what I learned not only in the example projects, but for a job developing a website with a team of other people. I was mostly doing grunt work like copying styles from Figma (a design editor used by the company I did work for) to the React, HTML, and CSS pages. But the work ended up being way too much to do and too little time to do it. The advantage for me was that thanks to this book, whenever I learned something new, I was able to take the initiative and either problem solve or go work on something that needed done (making tables, making a sticky nav, adding scrollbars, using the box grid to style pages, etc. etc.). All that to say the book is immediately useful for anyone working on web development if you have a project where you can get in and get your hands dirty.
October 12, 2020
This was a very good step by step guide. I felt confident in what I had learned by the end of my class. However, it was a newly released edition and had a number of errors in the text. I made sure to bring the errors to my professor.
April 20, 2022
A good dive into HTML 5 & CSS. The only note I have is that if you are doing the Mindtap Cengage course through school, the labs do not always contain the same full information online that they have in the textbook.
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