CSS Tutorial For Beginners: Style Your Wordpress Templates

CSS Tutorial For Beginners: Style Your Wordpress Templates
 
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Description

Are you someone who has been working with Wordpress and want to take your sites to the next level by changing their look and their style?

Or maybe you’re frustrated because you want to make changes but you can’t figure out how to do it.

Maybe you’ve tried to make your website look better, and you’ve done the best you can but you keep getting stuck.

If you don’t learn this, I’m sorry to say that that frustration doesn’t go away! And as frustrating as it is now, imagine what you’ll feel like a month or a year from now when you STILL DON’T KNOW how to make your website look better quickly and easily.

I KNOW how that frustration feels, I’ve been there, and I know how annoying it can be to know what kind of changes you want to make, but then not know HOW to make them. But I’ve learned the RIGHT way to style websites, and it’s called CSS, and that’s what I want to teach you today.

Take a look at this example of how a simple boring form can be easily and quickly transformed into something mobile friendly and responsive! I’ll walk you through exactly how to do this and other things like it in this course.

Also, imagine what it will feel like to be able to look behind the scenes of any Wordpress website you visit and see how THEY styled it, and then be able to model that styling for your own website!

Imagine using code that makes your website look so much better the INSTANT you add it.

And what will you feel like when you can take a boring theme and injecting it with life and your own personality, quickly and easily using CSS.

This course is the complete guide to beginner css and it is the exact tool you NEED in order to style your Wordpress website.

WHEN YOU join this course TODAY, you get lifetime access. Not only that: this course will be super helpful to you now AND in the future whenever you have a question about CSS. It’s easy to ask any questions at any time and I’ll be right there with you, answering them.

Take this course NOW and I’ll see YOU on the other side!

Basic knowledge

• You should be familiar with Wordpress
• You should have very basic knowledge of HTML
• All required software is free (and download links are included)
• You should make sure you like my teaching style (please preview a video)!

What will you learn

• Take your websites to the next level by changing their look and their style
• Have CONFIDENCE to know you can make any website look better quickly
• GET RID of your frustration making changes to your website by truly understanding what's going on
• Get UNSTUCK and feel free to make new changes without being worried it will take you hours to fix

Course Curriculum

Quick Course Overview

• Intro To This Course

Welcome! Overview Of CSS Selectors And Setup

• What Are CSS Selectors + Why Do We Care?
• What You Need To Be Set Up For This Course
• What's The Point Of Using CSS?
• How Does The Code Work To Let Us Use CSS?
• Behind The Scenes Of A Form!
• More About CSS Selectors: Be Broad Or Be Specific

Saving Changes + Child Themes

• How Do We Save Our Changes?
• Why Use A Child Theme?
• How To Set Up A Child Theme In Wordpress
• Quick Overview On Chrome DevTools: Our New Best Friend

Let's Dive In To CSS: Specific Changes

• Selecting Our Code In Different Ways: There Isn't Just ONE Answer!
• Divs: Let's Play With Margin + Padding
• Divs: Floats, Backgrounds + Widths
• Using Multiple Selectors For The Same Div SAVES US TIME!
• Making Elements DISAPPEAR: Use The Display Property
• Divs: It's Time To FLOAT
• Using Placeholder Text In Your Form
• Watch Your Code: Placeholder MISTAKE!
• Using Borders: Do This To FIX Your Code
• What Does Text-Transform Do?
• Pay Attention To Small Details: Line-Height Is Important
• Styling Your Placeholder Text

Common HTML & CSS You'll See Over And Over Again

• Quick Run-through: HTML Elements You Use Every Day.
• Working With Images: Width, Height + Retina-Friendly
• Working With Links: Padding, Margin + Fixing A Common Issue
• Styling Links To Change When You HOVER Over Them
• Make A Link "Pop" When You Click It
• Quick Overview: Responsive Design

Let's Go Deeper: More Common Issues + Quick Fixes

• Percentages, Pixels + The Border-Box "Hack"
• Force An Element To STAY PUT
• Centering: Text-Align VS. Margin
• Should We Write Styling Into The HTML Or CSS File?
• CSS Specificity: Which Code Wins?
• How To Fix Collapsed Divs
• Clear Your Floating Divs!

Create Your Own Form From SCRATCH!

• Form Setup: What You Need To Do For This Section
• Next Step: Give The Inputs Some Room
• Width + Border-Box Saves Us Time And Having To Do Math!
• Form Input Backgrounds
• Form Borders
• Next Step: Text-Transform + Text-Align
• Make Your Fonts Match (And Use Google Fonts!)
• The Perfect Submit Button
• Make The Submit Button Change On Click!
• Get Inspiration From Other Websites: Model Their Code

The END!

• Learn One Thing At A Time + Ask Me Anything!