Over the summer season months we’ve been busy retaining the momentum up for the Tiny CSS Initiatives e book. We’ve been busy with enhancing, promotion and simply retaining up to the mark. Right here’s just a few highlights throughout June, July and August and what’s developing.
New chapters in Tiny CSS Initiatives
When the e book was first launched in Mannings Early Entry Program we went dwell with chapters 1, 3 and 4. The primary chapter lined the fundamentals of CSS, what’s it and the way we will begin styling net pages. Chapter 3 is all about animations and the way we will animate SVG’s with CSS which was a enjoyable chapter to jot down. Chapter 4 lined one thing not typically recognized about in CSS that we will use the multi-column CSS module to create a newspaper kind structure.
Now in September we’ve 8 out of the 12 chapters revealed. It’s been actually fascinating as a primary time writer seeing the method unfold and getting that notification to say one other chapter has been revealed.
Going ahead we’re hoping extra chapters can be out quickly and we’re continually going again to the revealed chapters making edits and adjustments based mostly on suggestions.
Podcast
We just lately met with Chris to talk in regards to the e book on the Chinchilla Squeaks podcast. Admittedly for me this didn’t go to plan, I had large tech points with my microphone and an overheating laptop computer. Fortunately Chris accomplished an incredible job and saved all of it on monitor.
You can even hearken to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the ordinary channels. Subsequent we’ve obtained one other podcast lined up in October which can be enjoyable and hopefully no tech points!
Full color print and anticipated publication date
We additionally had affirmation that the Tiny CSS Initiatives e book can be revealed in Spring 2023 and in addition that it will likely be in full color. CSS is a extremely visible given it’s for styling net pages so it’s nice to see Manning supporting us and committing to printing the e book in color subsequent yr.
The e book can also be accessible to pre-order on third-party web sites now like Amazon alongside my new Amazon writer web page which hopefully will maintain extra books sooner or later. It’s additionally on different web sites like Barnes & Noble in the USA.
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Michael Gearon is a Senior Interplay Designer at Authorities Digital Service (GDS) in Cardiff. Beforehand Mike was a product designer on the GoCo Group together with GoCompare, MyVoucherCodes and WeFlip. As properly working for manufacturers in South Wales like BrandContent and HEOR.
