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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

The Fundamentals: HTML + CSS

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about the “fundamentals” of web development and what you need to know - HTML, CSS foundations and more! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at Freshbooks and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 1:54 - Learning fundamentals vs framework specialists Learning vs getting a job Abstractions work well until they don’t and you need to debug them HTML 7:58 - Semantic markup 9:15 - Accessibility basics 9:57 - Attributes CSS 16:13 - Specificity 22:42 - Selectors 24:52 - Layouts 27:53 - Box model 32:50 - Positioning 36:42 - Forms and inputs 40:45 - Block vs inline vs inline-block 43:09 - Sizing units 44:40 - Typography 47:53 - Media Queries Links Interviewing candidates with a lack of fundamentals - Tweet Jean-Philippe Sirois Tweet Syntax 72: Accessibility Syntax 107: Hasty Treat - CSS Units ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson Wes: Forearm Forklift Lifting and Moving Straps Shameless Plugs Scott’s new course - “Debugging and Dev Tools” Wes’ courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:06.0

Strap yourself in and get ready.

0:08.0

Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.

0:10.5

Welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest the yumiest

0:15.5

most scrumbly umpious treats on web development around.

0:20.8

Yeah, today we're going to be talking about the fundamentals.

0:24.9

We're sort of kicking off this new series of tasty treats that is talking about what are the

0:30.3

fundamentals like what do you need to know before or during getting into interviewing getting into

0:36.8

picking up frameworks like what is it worth knowing and at a bare minimum

0:41.9

before you dive into these things.

0:43.5

We'll talk about this in a second, but like people are always talking about like

0:46.8

the fundamentals are so important and it's kind of an interesting place.

0:51.5

So we're gonna try to distill what are the fundamentals today

0:54.5

of HTML and CSS.

0:55.8

And then we've got some other topics, obviously

0:57.3

JavaScript and maybe server side,

0:59.9

maybe some design stuff.

1:02.1

So we'll talk about that with me Mr. Tolinsky how you doing today?

1:06.3

I'm all over the place man we just recorded an episode a minute ago and it was like

1:11.4

double talking and yeah so I am still getting into my routine here

1:17.8

with her new baby and yeah I'm just I'm just I'm ready to go but I'm holding on for dear life right now.

1:24.7

So yeah, I'm enjoying our my good sleeps until ours comes which could happen any day now.

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