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intermediate CSS
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Using :where() to apply a rule to multiple selectors • Using adjacent sibling combinators to select elements that are immediately after another element • Using :user-invalid to conditionally style elements based on a field’s validity • Using @supports to write fallbacks for properties that are not widely supported across browsers • Using accent-color to change the color of a checkbox
Martine Dowden
1 week · 2-4 hours per week · INTERMEDIATE
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Contact forms are one of the most important parts of almost any site—especially your web design portfolio. If your potential clients aren’t impressed with a contact form, why would they ever use it to get in touch with you? In this liveProject, you’ll use CSS to create a stunning contact form. You’ll put your own spin on text, error messages, radio buttons, button styles, and more.

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Martine Dowden

An award-winning CTO, UX/UI designer and developer, international speaker, and author, Martine focuses on web interfaces that are beautiful, functional, and accessible. She approaches user experience from both art and science perspectives, drawing from her degrees in psychology and visual communications. She has worked as a developer, artist, educator, and consultant since 2005. To stay active in the industry she writes articles, leads workshops, and speaks at conferences and meetups worldwide. Her favorite topics to present are frontend web development, CSS, user experience, interaction design, accessibility, and Firebase. In recognition of her work in the community, she was awarded and still maintains the Google Developer Expert (GDE) status and the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP).


In 2015, she published a children’s book, Programming Languages ABC++, of which the workbook edition sold over 20,000 copies in 2016. She then went on to write Approachable Accessibility: Planning for Success, which was released in June 2019, and Architecting CSS: The Programmer’s Guide to Effective Stylesheets in 2020.


Currently, she is the CTO at Andromeda Galactic Solutions where she continues to learn, work on, and share her passion for frontend development.

prerequisites

This liveProject is for frontend developers looking to learn the new features of CSS. To begin this liveProject, you will need to know the following:


TOOLS
  • Intermediate CSS
  • Intermediate HTML
  • Beginner npm
TECHNIQUES
  • HTML elements
  • CSS box model
  • CSS cascading

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