A Udemy course - "Advanced CSS and Sass" by Jonas Schmedtmann
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Modern CSS techniques to create stunning designs and effects: clip-path, background-clip, mask-image, background-blend-mode, shape-outside, filter, backdrop-filter, object-fit, transform, column-count, hyphens, perspective, calc() and custom CSS properties;
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Advanced CSS animations with @keyframes, animation and transition;
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Advanced CSS selectors, pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements required for modern CSS development;
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How CSS works behind the scenes: the cascade, specificity, inheritance, value processing, the visual formatting model, the box model, box types, positioning schemes and stacking contexts;
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CSS architecture: The 7-1 rule, component-based design, the BEM methodology, writing reusable, maintainable and scalable code;
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Introduction to Sass: variables, nesting, partials, imports, mixins, functions, extends, and more;
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Using Sass in real-world projects: setting global variables, building for reusability, architecting CSS and managing media queries;
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The NPM ecosystem: setting up a development process to compile Sass and automatic browser reload, and creating a build process to concatenate, prefix and compress CSS files;
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Modern responsive design: fluid grids, layout types, flexible images, using media queries to test for different screen widths, pixel densities and touch capabilities;
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Advanced responsive design workflows: mobile-first vs desktop-first strategies, selecting breakpoints, em vs rem units and feature queries to test for browser support;
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Responsive images in HTML and CSS for faster pageloads: resolution switching, density switching, art direction;
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SVG images in HTML and CSS: how and why to use SVG, generating SVG sprites, changing SVG colors in CSS and best practices;
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Videos in HTML and CSS: building a background video effect;
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Flexbox layouts: main concepts, introduction to both flex container and flex item specific properties, advanced positioning techniques applied to a huge real-world project;
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CSS Grid layouts: main concepts, CSS grid vs flexbox, and layout techniques applied to a real-world project. This part alone could be an entire course!