[olug] Steve Litt presents "HTML and CSS: What you need to know"

[Rob Townley]

Steve, are GoLUG presentations  recorded?

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 5:42 PM Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Wednesday Evening, June 1, 2022, at 7pm Eastern Daylight time Steve Litt
> gives his "HTML and CSS: What you need to know" presentation at the
> monthly GoLUG online meeting.
>
> When: 7pm Eastern Daylight time on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. Starts right
> at 7pm Eastern Daylight Time.
>
> Where: https://meet.jit.si/golug
>
> Subject: HTML and CSS: What you need to know.
>
> HTML is the foundation of web page construction. No matter what tools
> you use, they eventually boil down to HTML. CSS (Cascading Style
> Sheets) is the modern foundation of web page appearance, decoration,
> and to some extent behavior. All quality tools eventually apply
> appearances via CSS. Consider the following:
>
> * A deep understanding of HTML and CSS improves understanding of higher
>   level web construction tools.
>
> * A deep understanding of HTML and CSS gives the term "full stack
>   developer" a whole new meaning.
>
> * Making your HTML5 also well-formed XML yields huge benefits in
>   debugging, portability, and getting the output you envisioned. Doing
>   this is trivially easy.
>
> * HTML and CSS are all that's necessary to make a responsive,
>   mobile-friendly web page.
>
> * A deep understanding of HTML and CSS plus a zen-coding editor often
>   make direct HTML/CSS authoring easier and quicker than some of the
>   higher level tools.
>
> * A deep understanding of CSS makes a world of difference in the
>   appearance of quick-author methods such as Markdown, Asciidoc, and
>   reStructuredText. Get the best of both worlds.
>
> * Markdown (or other "wiki" languages) plus tokens plus simple Python
>   programming plus a deep knowledge of HTML and CSS produces amazing
>   results from the fastest authoring environments.
>
> * Each HTML element has a peer in the Document Object Model (DOM),
>   making it easy to implement Javascript solutions or modify with an
>   XML parser (assuming the HTML5 is also XML).
>
>
> Topics discussed include the following:
>
> * Container type HTML elements
> * Non-container type HTML elements
> * Making your HTML5 also be well-formed XML
>         - Debugging your XMLized HTML5
>                 . Much easier than debugging non-XML HTML5
> * The extreme benefits of styles-based authoring
> * Structure of a CSS Style
> * HTML5 validation
> * Making your page responsive
>         - Mobile-first authoring
> * Mobile-friendly testing
>
> If you have anything to do with web authoring or would like to in the
> future, this presentation is for you.
>
>
> What is GoLUG? Greater Orlando Linux User Group, Orlando Florida.
>
> Who will be there? Folks from Orlando Florida, all over the United
>   States, and likely internationally.
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> GoLUG Publicity Coordinator
> Greater Orlando Linux User Group
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