Russ Weakley

Russ Weakley is a world-renowned author, speaker and CSS expert, with a detailed knowledge of web design and development. Russ produced a series of widely acclaimed Sitepoint tutorials on CSS. He is currently touring a series of Responsive Web Design workshops around Australia.

Russ's articles

Video: Scalable Backgrounds in CSS

HTML & CSS

By Russ Weakley, May 21, 2015

In this short video, I'll show you how to create a background container that scales seamlessly to fit any browser size.

Screencast: Origin and Importance in the CSS Cascade

Blogs

By Russ Weakley, July 18, 2014

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

Web

By Russ Weakley, July 01, 2014

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

Blogs

By Russ Weakley, May 23, 2014

Russ Weakly shows an easy way for beginners to debug their CSS in the browser.

Responsive Web Design: Real User Testing

Blogs

By Russ Weakley, February 05, 2013

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

Microsoft Tech

By Russ Weakley, May 17, 2011

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.