#30DaysofHTML becomes #15DaysofCSS

And other exciting updates!

Hello, #30DaysofHTML fans and friends! It’s been a while since you’ve heard from us, so time for a few updates.

📚🎉 #30DaysofHTML E-book 📚🎉

The #30DaysofHTML E-book was released on June 30 as promised.

If you ordered one but did not receive it, we had a few reports of stripped attachments and emails marked as spam.

Drop me an email at jen@jenkramer.org if you did not receive yours, and I’ll respond with a download link.

🆓 Missed some of the #30DaysofHTML emails? Want to go through it again? They are still available as a series emailed one a day for 30 days.

💰 Or buy the book - it’s still available for $6 with an immediate download.

📽 LinkedIn Learning & LinkedIn Live: HTML & CSS Coding Challenges

Looking for some practice with Flexbox, Grid, and all of those awesome HTML elements you just learned? Jen’s LinkedIn Learning course Semantic HTML and CSS Coding Challenges was released on June 22.

💰If you want to watch the videos at LinkedIn Learning, you’ll need a subscription. You may get free access through work, your local public library, or the free trial. However, you don’t need to watch these videos to follow along.

🆓 CodePens for all challenges are freely accessible, even if you can’t access the videos: https://codepen.io/collection/XqrZBZ

🆓 JOIN ME LIVE on the following dates at 12 PM Eastern US time:

• July 22:  Challenges 1-4 on Flexbox

• July 29: Challenges 5-8 on navbars and hamburger buttons with CSS

• August 5: Challenges 9-12 on Grid layouts

In each session, we’ll go through the various challenges and look at how to approach them in depth, talk through coding choices made, and I’ll take your questions about each set of challenges.

This is FREE to attend – hope to see you there!

🆓 📚👩🏽‍💻 #15DaysofCSS starts September 13!

Overwhelmingly, you’ve asked for another free email course on CSS. After tossing around a few ideas, Erika and I settled on #15DaysofCSS. And we’re going to focus on… navbars!

🤯 What? Are you not TOTALLY PSYCHED??? 🤯

Navbars are some of the best ways to teach lots of CSS concepts in a very compact way.

• The HTML is pretty simple. Also, there’s one correct way to write it. 😉

• It’s a great model for learning the box model — there’s more to it than padding/margin/border.

• It’s a great structure for discussing relationships in between elements, inheritance, the cascade, and specificity.

• It offers opportunities to think about absolute, relative, fixed, and sticky positioning.

• Responsive design plays a role – and with a CSS-based hamburger button, it can get quite hairy to make it work well!

• Most people suck at making good navbars.

Take a chance on me – it’s free, it’s only 15 days (Sept 13-Oct 1), and it runs only during the week (not the weekends). And of course, by the end, there will be another e-book with all of the posts compiled into a single reference!

🤷🏿‍♂️ OK, I’ll give #15DaysofCSS a chance… how do I enroll?

Stay subscribed to this mailing list, and you’ll get #15DaysofCSS starting September 13. In the interim, you’ll get a few other updates from Jen, with newsy bits about HTML and CSS training you might want to participate in. Now that Jen’s doing freelance training full-time, there’s lots of training coming your way soon!

Thanks so much for reading, and we’ll update you again in two weeks.

Jen and Erika