Russ Weakley is a world-renowned author, speaker and CSS expert, with a detailed knowledge of web design and development. Russ chairs the Web Standards Group (WSG) and produced a series of widely acclaimed Learnable tutorials on CSS. He is currently touring a series of Responsive Web Design workshops around Australia.
Russ's articles
Watch: Create Elegant and Responsive Bootstrap Buttons
By Russ Weakley,
I will show you how to create elegant responsive Bootstrap buttons including overcoming white-space issues and hiding content at various screen sizes.
Watch: Creating High Resolution Background Images with CSS
By Russ Weakley,
In this screencast, Russ Weakley shows you how to create hi-res background images at a 2x and 3x resolution for narrow and wide screens with media queries.
Video: CSS Backgrounds
By Russ Weakley,
CSS background-image properties allows us to apply one or more background image to any HTML element. In this videos I will explain how to use the property.
Video: Borders on Bootstrap Columns
By Russ Weakley,
In this video I'll show you how to add an equal height border to columns using Bootstrap.
Video: Scalable Backgrounds in CSS
By Russ Weakley,
In this short video, I'll show you how to create a background container that scales seamlessly to fit any browser size.
Video: Quantity Queries In Action
By Russ Weakley,
In this short video, I show you how to use quantity queries with a real-world example.
Understanding the :empty Pseudo-Class (Screencast)
By Russ Weakley,
You can learn to overcome your fears and thoroughly understand CSS selectors and their uses. Learnable tutor Russ Weakley demonstrates the :empty pseudo class.
Screencast: Origin and Importance in the CSS Cascade
By Russ Weakley,
A screencast by Russ Weakley, discussing origin and importance in the CSS cascade, part of his larger Learnable course on the CSS cascade.
Screencast: CSS’s Adjacent Sibling Selector
By Russ Weakley,
A screencast by Russ Weakley, from his Learnable course, covering CSS's useful but often forgotten adjacent sibling selector.
Inspect Element: Troubleshooting CSS in the Browser
By Russ Weakley,
Russ Weakly shows an easy way for beginners to debug their CSS in the browser.
CSS3 rem units
By Russ Weakley,
Read CSS3 rem units and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
CSS3 Video Tutorial: not Selector
By Russ Weakley,
CSS3 Video Tutorial: not Selector video tutorial with Russ Weakley
CSS3 Video Tutorial: nth-of-type Selector
By Russ Weakley,
Russ Weakley hosts a five minute video tutorial guide to the new CSS3 structural pseudo class nth-of-type
Responsive Web Design: Real User Testing
By Russ Weakley,
Russ Weakley provides some valuable insights into the potentially tricky area of testing responsive web design with real users.
New Properties and Values in Backgrounds with CSS3
By Russ Weakley,
Read New Properties and Values in Backgrounds with CSS3 and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.