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To create web designs that delight, entertain, and impress your users, you need to know CSS in depth! Getting good—really good—at CSS means learning everything that CSS is capable of. This totally revised new edition of  CSS in Depth expands your CSS skills with the patterns, layouts, and methods you need to deliver truly beautiful front ends. In  CSS in Depth, Second Edition you will learn how to: Create a web page with layout methods Develop essential website components, like dropdown menus and dialog boxes Make your website fully responsive across devices Organize your CSS for easy future maintenance Implement designer mockups with attention to detail Use animations to guide user focus Avoid common CSS pitfalls The more you know about CSS, the more confident you'll be at tackling any tricky website design!  CSS in Depth has given thousands of web developers the tools and the inspiration to make sites that really pop. This second edition is packed with the latest best practices, new CSS language features, and essential advice on how to organize and maintain your CSS codebase.   About the technology To deliver truly beautiful frontends, you need to know CSS inside and out. And as CSS grows and matures, even experienced CSS developers will find a whole new set of skills to catch up on! This guide will help you discover everything that CSS is capable of—from the must-knows and brand-new features to the hidden insights you won't find anywhere else!

Keith Grant and Valerie Maryman know that a meaningful life rests largely upon ones capacity for hope. Our fears and lack of trust in ourselves and others can keep us from leading a purposeful life. Find hope in the commentary of eleven interviewees who share their insights regarding difficult situations and how these situations helped them persevere and lead them to greater meaning in their lives. Embrace compelling interviews ofHenry McClendon, Director of New Detroit Rev. Dr. Shelia BrownBurrell, Life Challenge Erminina Ramirez, Chief Executive Officer of CHASS Janis McFaul, PhD, General Motors Heaster Wheeler, Executive Director of NAACP (Detroit Branch) Adolphus Cast, Bishop of Life Applications Church, Warren, Michigan Edward Wingard, PhD, Retired Vice President of Academic Affairs Union Institute and University Damon Keith, Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Rosalind Andrews Worthy, Founder of Gospel Against AIDS Jamie Kjos, Pastor of Brightmoor Christian Church, Novi, Michigan Marjorie Harris, PhD, Retired President of Lewis College of BusinessLet Fruit of the Spirit provide you with inspiration to help you persevere and develop more hope, resilience, and faith to live a more meaningful life.

SummaryCSS in Depth exposes you to a world of CSS techniques that range from clever to mind-blowing. This instantly useful book is packed with creative examples and powerful best practices that will sharpen your technical skills and inspire your sense of design.Foreword by Chris Coyier, Cofounder of CodePen.Dig even deeper into the secrets of CSS with our video course CSS in Depth in Motion, available exclusively at Manning.com (www.manning.com/livevideo/css-in-depth-​in-motion)!Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.About the TechnologySome websites really pop. They look great, they''re visually consistent, and they feel interactive and responsive. You can bet their developers knew CSS in depth. CSS specifies everything from the structural layout of page elements to their individual look and feel. True masters know the patterns of CSS development, the techniques to implement them, and the subtle touches that result in beautiful typography, fluid transitions, and balanced graphics. Join them!About the BookCSS in Depth exposes you to a world of CSS techniques that range from clever to mind-blowing. This instantly useful book is packed with creative examples and powerful best practices that will sharpen your technical skills and inspire your sense of design. You''ll gain new insights into familiar features like floats and units, and experiment with emerging ideas like responsive design and pattern libraries. Bottom line: this book will make you a better web designer and your apps will look fantastic!What''s InsideAvoid common CSS pitfallsMaster misunderstood conceptsUse flexbox and grid layoutResponsive designs for any deviceCode for reuse and maintainabilityAbout the ReaderWritten for web developers who know the basics of CSS and HTML.About the AuthorKeith J. Grant is a senior web developer who builds and maintains web applications and websites, including The New York Stock Exchange site.Table of Contents

PART 1 - REVIEWING THE FUNDAMENTALS

Cascade, specificity, and inheritance Working with relative units Mastering the box model

PART 2 - MASTERING LAYOUT

Making sense of floats Flexbox Grid layout Positioning and stacking contexts Responsive design

PART 3 - CSS AT SCALE

Modular CSS Pattern libraries

PART 4 - ADVANCED TOPICS

Backgrounds, shadows, and blend modes Contrast, color, and spacing Typography Transitions Transforms Animations

An exploration of the pastoral theology of Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) suggests that evangelical renewal did not only take place alongside the local church - missions, itinerancy, voluntary societies - but also within the congregation as the central tasks of dissenting pastoral ministry became, in the words of one diarist, 'very affecting and evangelical'. How did evangelicalism transform dissenting and Baptist churches in the eighteenth century? Is there a distinctively congregational expression of evangelicalism? And what contribution has evangelicalism made to pastoral theology? renewal did not only take place alongside the local church - missions, itinerancy, voluntary societies - but also within the congregation as dissenting pastoral ministry became, in the words of one diarist, 'very affecting and evangelical'.