Web Design Playground

Web Design Playground, Second Edition is a hands-on introduction to building web pages, covering design, development and publishing. It comes with a free online workspace, the "playground," where readers can experiment without setting up their own servers or domain names.

Through playful projects, the book teaches modern HTML, CSS and web design standards. Readers build a landing page, a photo gallery, a portfolio site and more, and four of these larger projects produce real pages suitable for a portfolio. The second edition has been updated for current technologies and approaches, including the newer features of Flexbox and CSS Grid alongside long-standing HTML and CSS techniques.

Along the way, readers practise core skills such as page layout, adding images and video, typography and responsive design. The only requirement is the ability to use a web browser.

Author Paul McFedries is a web designer and teacher who has written more than 100 books, which have sold over four million copies worldwide.