How to Set the Color of the Background
Daniel Walter Scott
Lessons
How This Class is Structured
01:41 2What to Download
02:57 3Creating Our First Webpage
05:55 4What is HTML5 & CSS3
08:24 5Head vs. Body vs. Html Tag
09:01 6Title & Description
05:54What Code Editor Should I Use
02:42 8Using Diy Tags
06:26 9What is a CSS Class
09:05 10How to Create Nested Divs
05:03 11Class Project
05:24 12External CSS
09:07 13Creating Our Index Style Pages
12:16 14Testing Your Website
08:47 15Check Your Code For Errors
11:01 16What are HTML5 Structure Tags
05:47 17Add HTML5 structure elements
16:02 18How to Set the Color of the Background
05:10 19Adding Images to a Website
04:38 20How to Center an Image
01:14 21Change the Font Size & Color
14:11 22Make a Clickable Link
08:45 23Stretching Background Image
05:38 24Making a Div Tag Transparent
02:36 25Simple Website Text Navigation
06:43 26CSS Compound Classes
07:02 27Class Project 02
02:05 28Class Project 02 - COMPLETE
04:48 29Add an Email Button to a Website
03:49 30Add Google Maps to Your Website
11:25 31Making a Website Live
16:50 32Uploading via SFTP
11:50 33Setting Up Our New Project
03:46 34CSS Reset
15:22 35Min-height vs. Height
07:01 36Div Tags Onto One Line
05:23 37Getting div tags onto one line using Flexbox in HTML & CSS
05:23 38Evenly Spaced Div Tags
04:42 39Two Div Tags of Different Sizes
07:13 40Vertically Center Content
07:20 41Class Project 3
02:51 42Class Project 3 - COMPLETE
05:39 43Change Default Fonts
04:19 44Installing Google Fonts
12:44 45What are PX & EM & REM
14:56 46Change Line Height
04:33 47SVG vs. JPG vs. PNG
07:04 48How to Create a SVG, JPG, or PNG
11:00 49Block Images vs. Background Images
08:32 50Finishing Up Our Cards
09:10 51Icons via Font Awesome
16:31 52Making a Div Container Clickable
09:55 53Box-sizing & Border-box
06:19 54How to Make A Colored Button
07:46 55Why Can't I Add Margin or Paddding
11:08 56Rounded Corners
04:17 57Drop Shadows
06:24 58Backup Your Website
05:00 59Reusing a Button Class
03:10 60Class Project 04
02:58 61Class Project 04 -COMPLETE
05:45 62Adding a Horizontal Rule
03:51 63Make Divs Wrap Onto Separate Lines
12:14 64Hover Color & Animating a Button
03:33 65Pseudo Classes
09:31 66Simple Dropdown Navigation
20:04 67Adding Our Dropdown to the Website
14:50 68Useful Shortcuts and Tips in VS Code
13:28 69Large Background Image
09:24 70How to Connect 2 Pages
10:42 71Simple PHP Form Work
17:49 72Placeholder Form Text
05:46 73Multi Line Form Text Box
02:18 74Form Check Marks
03:04 75Form Radio Button
06:07 76Form Drop Down Menu
05:48 77How to Style Your Form
12:55 78What does responsive website design mean
04:17 79How to change a website layout size color when at different sizes using media queries
11:28 80How to test your website on a tablet or mobile phone from Visual Studio Code
06:00 81How to change the layout of a responsive website for mobile vs desktop
16:02 82How to turn things on and off for mobile tablet & desktop responsive websites
06:03 83What is pixel density responsive images pixel ratio dp px in webdesign
14:47 84How to export responsive images for website from XD Photoshop Illustrator
05:11 85How to add responsive images to website using 100% width in HTML & CSS
06:08 86How to use srcset to change images in HTML for responsive website
10:15 87How to add a css style to the first line of a p tag on a website (
11:18 88How to make the header footer full width but the inside centered
05:36 89Class Project 05 – Header design
03:12 90Class Project 05 – Header design COMPLETE
06:25 91How to use a span tag or span class in HTML to change text
10:32 92How to pin the navigation to the top of a website fixed nav
03:17 93How to make a simple responsive mobile menu using CSS only
08:21 94What is Javascript vs Jquery in website web design
06:35 95How to make a burger menu 3 line mobile navigation for a website
15:11 96How to switch a menu nav from desktop to mobile phone
21:45 97Overview of what Bootstrap 4 is in website design
07:57 98How to install Bootstrap 4 on a website using Visual Studio Code
06:27 99Quick overview of how the Bootstrap Grid Layout works in VS Code
10:49 100Quick overview of how Bootstrap Components works in VS Code
09:23 101Quick overview of how Bootstrap CSS Styles works in VS Code
08:20 102How to customize the default Bootstrap 4 css styles
13:51 103How to use Bootstrap Layout Grid Experiment 1
10:20 104How to make 100% header & uneven widths in Bootstrap 4
07:16 105How to create uneven col widths in Bootstrap 4
07:27 106How to add padding & margins using Bootstrap 4 in VS Code
12:03 107How to change layout of Bootstrap depending on mobile or desktop
15:46 108How to turn things on & off on your website using Bootstrap 4
05:30 109Google Chrome Inspect
12:40 110Add Shadows to Text & Boxes
07:06 111Change the Default Buttons
06:16 112Responsive Images in Bootstrap 4
09:34 113How to Center Text & Div Tags
04:16 114Customize the Bootstrap Navbar
07:29 115Add Your Own Logo
03:58 116Change the Default Nav Styles
12:12 117Fix the Navigation to the Top
04:41 118Col Images & Col Background
07:56 119Bootstrap Border & Rounded Corners
04:20 120Bootstrap 4 Carousels
05:13 121Card Groups
03:29 122Drop Shadows On Bootstrap Cards
02:25 123Clickable Boxes in Bootstrap 4
04:02 124Final Quiz
Lesson Info
How to Set the Color of the Background
Hi there in this video, we're going to go from this plane, a white background to, to this toxic green color. Basically. I'm going to show you how to color the background using your html body tag. And then I go off on a bit of a tangent to discuss rgb colors and hex decimal colors. And how to use this little color slider, pick a thing. It's all ahead of you in this next class. All right. So now we need to color this background part here. So there's white. Okay. We can't can color just the container because the containers just sitting here in the middle. Okay. So we need another way. Imagine if there was a tag that wraps around right around everything on our page. Look at that body tag. It's already there. Okay. And this is the tag that you style. Okay. To change the complete background color. Now we could put the body down the end here, but it's really common to have it at the top. Okay. So buddy, remember it doesn't need a period or a full stop in front of it. Okay, just type buddy and...
we're gonna add our background. Use this loads of times Now background color. There he is. We're going to pick one of these random colors for the moment. Really. Let's check out what coral is and and it's yeah, kind of like it kind of do. It's not working with these colors, but that is how to change the background color. We'll do background images later on in the course. But for the moment I want to focus a little bit on color because using coral and red and indian red and ruby red, there's lots of different kind of naming, I don't know who's in charge of naming those colors, but hey, that's what they are. Often what we want to do is just hover above it with your mouse. I'm not doing anything, I'm not clicking on it, I'm just hovering above it. It's kind of weird and obvious code. Sometimes it turns on, you're like, sometimes you just can't make it turn on even though you really want to, so just hover above it won't turn on now. It will. Okay, and then down here we can do a couple of things. This kind of far right slider is the hue. Okay, so drag it to get it roughly in the zone to say we want to change this to ah let's say bright green, just because we get in the bright green range and we go, do we want a bit more yellow, yellowy green or you know, a bit more of a bluey green? Let's go the bluey green. Okay then over here is the capacity. Okay, so how see through it is for a background color? You can't really have see through this. Okay, or opacity because there's nothing to see through to. Okay, but later on that'll be useful and in here it's where this dot ends up. So you click hold and move it around. So if I go up here, it doesn't matter what the hue is. I'm going to have white which is RGB 255 across all of them. Cool. So what I want to do is get back into it by hovering above it. Okay and going back into here grabbing the green, getting the kind of bluey green and then clicking in here and just kind of getting it to where I feel it should look nice and that's what I want to do. I'm picking a random color for the moment now just click off in the background or move your mouse away. You notice the colors change from being RgB sorry, from a name to this red, green and blue mixture and those red mixed with green mixed with blue makes that kind of crazy green color. Let's save it and let's test it. And the brother, that's the wrong place there it is. This my green. Another way to do colors is to use hex to decimal colors. So I'm going to delete all of that now. This is for the people that know already. So let's say that you do know what a hex to decimal number is, starts with hash and often people will use three or six digit code. I'm just going to fake one. So it turns out if I hit those keys randomly on my keyboard, I get a green. Okay, so it's it's either three or six digits, mainly six digits. And where do we get these colors from there. They actually made up of red, green and blue. So the first two digits read second two digits are green. Last two digits blue. You don't need to know that but and let's say that you're working with brand guidelines so you're working for a corporate client. They might give you this exodus symbol number or the RGB number and you can type in whichever works for you for me I'm working from this mock up here in XD. We'll look at XD later on but this code this color in the background. I've clicked on my name up here. Don't worry if you've never used XD um we'll talk about it later on in the course I click on this and you can see that gives me my hex to decimal number or it could go RgB I could type those in. Okay. All the different kinds of web like creation like design products like you could use Photoshop or illustrator or XD or sketch to design your website but you build it in venus code and then just figure out what the codes are. Color codes you want to use. Okay that's the code I want I'm going to copy it. I'm gonna go into bs code and that my friend it's the kind of dark gray that I want to save it browser. That's the dark green. Okay the first bit was easy. We talked about adding the body tag and then I went on a little bit too long about colors felt like it was the time to do it, but maybe it was, maybe it's for later. We'll cover it again as we go through. If that felt a bit fast, I'm back for lunch. I've had a coffee racing through stuff. Slow down and take breaths and I will see you in the next video. We have taken a breath.
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