Web designers and coders will be introduced to techniques to improve their results in CSS Positioning Best Practices. Beginning with a brief review of CSS, instructor Bill Weinman demonstrates how to position elements on a page using CSS instead of tables. He then goes step by step through the process of using CSS positioning to lay out pages that have traditionally been laid out using HTML tables. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

• Understanding style sheets and levels of inheritance
• Learning how to use CSS units of measure in page layout
• Laying out content on a page using absolute, relative, float, and fixed positioning
• Using CSS positioning to place menus, buttons, graphics, and columns precisely on a page
• Using templates to improve workflow
• Creating a full working web site, step by step

About the Author

Bill Weinman is a tech advocate, entrepreneur, and expert in a programming languages such as C++ and Python.

Bill Weinman is the author of several books and online courses on the technical aspects of the World Wide Web. He has earned a reputation for his ability to explain complex topics in clear, concise terms. Mr. Weinman built his first computer in 1973, and has been involved with technology ever since. He has run a successful consulting practice, been a computer manufacturer, and most recently headed a hosting company. An accomplished guitarist, Bill performs and records music when he's not writing about computers.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Intermediate
• Video Duration: 2h 32m
• Instructor: Bill Weinman

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CSS for Developers is designed to give a working knowledge of CSS to web developers and coders who already have a firm grasp of XHTML/HTML and want to harness the power of style sheets to take their web sites to the next level. Instructor Bill Weinman reviews CSS fundamentals, including the benefits and limitations of the language, and then dives straight into creating styles. This course covers how to format text, images, and backgrounds; how to position elements on the page; and how to apply styles, both inline and via an external style sheet. CSS best practices and browser support issues are also addressed. Exercise files accompany the course.

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Prevent page refreshes when updating parts of a page, and make navigation more efficient using the enhancements to the Session History API provided with HTML5.This course describes how to use the HTML5 Session History application programming interface to present bookmark-friendly URLs while updating parts of a page and preventing unnecessary network activity. Author Bill Weinman shows how to manipulate history by adding entries to the stack, visibly changing the URL in the address bar, and removing entries when the user presses the back or forward buttons, all without reloading the web page. The course uses practical examples that can be applied to most web sites, and also shows how to detect support for the History API in browsers and how to handle exceptions. Topics include: Manipulating browser history: an overview Detecting History API support Pushing a new URL onto the stack Handling back and forward buttons with the popstate event Updating the stack with replaceState()

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Intermediate
• Video Duration: 35m 33s
• Instructor: Bill Weinman

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Save application data such as preferences or form data in the client's browser and use it in applications, including those running offline.This course describes how to save application data such as preferences or form data in the client's browser and use it in applications, including those run offline. Author and programmer Bill Weinman covers the various local storage options provided in HTML5, including local storage, session storage, and the Web SQL and Indexed Database APIs, with practical examples that show how to create and maintain a database in each scenario. The course also covers the use of storage events for change tracking and the cache manifest for using web applications offline. Topics include: Understanding storage components of the HTML5 architecture Providing client-side storage Understanding the Storage() interface Keeping context with sessionStorage Understanding the Web SQL and Indexed Database APIs Creating a local storage database Reading, writing, editing, and deleting storage data Handling storage events with local storage Running applications offline

Video Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Intermediate
• Video Duration: 2h 23m
• Instructor: Bill Weinman

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This course shows how to add location tracking to a web application with a combination of JavaScript, CSS and HTML5. First, author and HTML5 expert Bill Weinman provides a thorough explanation of the geolocation API, including considerations every developer should take into account, such as data dependability, power usage, and privacy concerns. The course then covers how to detect support for geolocation, retrieve coordinates from a device (whether once or continuously), handle errors, and integrate the results with Google Maps to create a location-aware web application that will run on many mobile browsers.

Topics include:

• Understanding how geolocation works
• Detecting geolocation support
• Getting coordinates
• Continuous tracking with watchPosition()
• Integrating geolocation with Google Maps

About the Author

Bill Weinman is a tech advocate, entrepreneur, and expert in a programming languages such as C++ and Python. Bill Weinman is the author of several books and online courses on the technical aspects of the World Wide Web. He has earned a reputation for his ability to explain complex topics in clear, concise terms. Mr. Weinman built his first computer in 1973, and has been involved with technology ever since. He has run a successful consulting practice, been a computer manufacturer, and most recently headed a hosting company. An accomplished guitarist, Bill performs and records music when he's not writing about computers. You can learn more about Bill, his projects and his music at http://bw.org/.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Intermediate
• Video Duration: 34m 15s
• Instructor: Bill Weinman

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Due to its power and simplicity, Python has become the scripting language of choice for many large organizations, including Google, Yahoo, and IBM. A thorough understanding of Python 3, the latest version, will help you write more efficient and effective scripts. In this course, Bill Weinman demonstrates how to use Python 3 to create well-designed scripts and maintain existing projects. This course covers the basics of the language syntax and usage, as well as advanced features such as objects, generators, and exceptions. Learn how types and values are related to objects; how to use control statements, loops, and functions; and how to work with generators and decorators. Bill also introduces the Python module system and shows examples of Python scripting at work in a real-world application.

Topics include:

• Python anatomy
• Types and values
• Conditionals and operators
• Building loops
• Defining functions
• Python data structures: lists, tuples, sets, and more
• Creating classes
• Handling exceptions
• Working with strings
• File input/output (I/O)
• Creating modules
• Integrating a database with Python db-api

About the Author

Bill Weinman is a tech advocate, entrepreneur, and expert in a programming languages such as C++ and Python. Bill Weinman is the author of several books and online courses on the technical aspects of the World Wide Web. He has earned a reputation for his ability to explain complex topics in clear, concise terms. Mr. Weinman built his first computer in 1973, and has been involved with technology ever since. He has run a successful consulting practice, been a computer manufacturer, and most recently headed a hosting company. An accomplished guitarist, Bill performs and records music when he's not writing about computers.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Intermediate
• Video Duration: 4h 45m
• Instructor: Bill Weinman

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