Name: Introduction to CSS3
Brand: University of Michigan
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 4.8 (1986 reviews)

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About the Course

The web today is almost unrecognizable from the early days of white pages with lists of blue links. Now, sites are designed with complex layouts, unique fonts, and customized color schemes. This course will show you the basics of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS3). The emphasis will be on learning how to write CSS rules, how to test code, and how to establish good programming habits. When done correctly, the styling of a webpage can enhance your page. When done incorrectly the result can be worse than no styling at all. To ensure that your sites do not put up barriers for people with cognitive and/or physical disabilities, you will learn how to evaluate pages using the standardized POUR accessibility guidelines. Upon completion of the course, learners will be able to sketch a design for a given HTML page. Using that design they will use CSS to implement the design by adding fonts, colors, and layouts. This is the second course in the Web Design For Everybody specialization. Subsequent courses focus on adding interaction with JavaScript and enhancing the styling with Responsive Design. It will be difficult to complete this course if you do not have access to a laptop or desktop computer for the homework....

Top reviews

May 2, 2020

Great course. It puts you on track for the styling part of a site and helps you understand what you are actually doing. The professor give a lot of additional resources for further development.

Oct 15, 2016

If you are new to HTML and CSS3, this is a great course. You are not given everything and you have to do work outside of what is given in the class, but I was able to learn a lot in this course!

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By Max

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Jun 23, 2016

Poor.

Course crammed with unnecessary details (loads of CSS "decoration" properties that one may test on it's own), without focusing on CSS fundamentals, such as page layout strategies, float-based layouts, element positioning which, in my view, are discussed only very superficially.

I'll forget 90% of discussed "decoration" properties in a few days but when I think of CSS paradigms - a structure that can be later filled with easily forgotten/easily retrieved "decoration" properties - that I'll take with me "for ever" out from this course.... sounds empty. The extra star goes for stressing the importance of accessibility.

To sum up: decoration largely outweighs structure.

By Lelania C G

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Mar 19, 2019

This is not a self paced course. The material is presented in a confusing way, some of it's outdated as far back as 2013, there are many typos, some of the questions on the quizzes are hard to decipher and in at least one instance, the answer page didn't even match the question (week 2, #6). I posted a question on the forum, no one answered and there's no way to contact the instructor directly. This has been the most frustrating learning experience I've ever had.

By Michael S

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Feb 28, 2017

The final assignment is peer graded, which means you'll have to deal with idiots grading your final assignment.

By Madhu R

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Sep 23, 2017

The peer graded assignments didn't prove to be quite productive.

By AKSHIT K

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Jul 6, 2020

The course videos didnt help much. The book was more helpful

By Shivansh G

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May 24, 2020

lenghty

By Francisco M B

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Apr 21, 2024

I think the grading should be more serious. I was quiet sure, to be honest, that my first homework wasn't correct and complete. And it's also too easy to copy work from another person. I graded a lot of work, many of them empy links, people asking for help, this course should be more serious. To me u$s 8 is a lot of money.