CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Training - 2 Days
Platform: Windows PC and Apple Mac
Courseware: Comprehensive training manual provided per person
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of web design and HTML
Course Overview:
This course is designed for those with some experience of HTML or Dreamweaver who need to gain
an understanding of current web design techniques, such as separating presentation from mark-up
through Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
This two day course will give you the necessary skills to split mark up from presentation, you will gain
a thorough grasp of standards compliant design and have the knowledge to style web page elements
with CSS.
CSS Training Outline
Standards Compliant Mark Up
- HTML and XHTML
- Converting and moving to XHTML
- Browser issues and standards compliance
Clean and Structured Pages
- CSS terminology and syntax
- XHTML syntax, options and versions
- Structuring XHTML pages
- Removing presentational elements
- Working with the DOCTYPE
- Understanding natural language declarations
Structuring Content
- Headings and sub headings
- Creating paragraphs
- Working with special characters
- Creating line breaks
- Creating horizontal rules
- Numbered (ordered) lists
- Unnumbered (unordered) lists
- Creating a basic input form
Introduction to CSS
- Separating content from presentation
- The difference between CSS and Mark up
- What can CSS do?
- CSS structure (syntax)
- Inserting styles (inline, embedded or external)
- The cascade order
- Using Class, Span and ID
Styling Text
- Specifying font size and colour
- Specifying font alignment
- Creating hover effects
- Keeping track of links
Controlling Colour and Typography
- Creating an embedded Style Sheet
- Applying colour
- Commenting your code
- Modifying text styles
- Modifying font styles
- Creating a linked Style Sheet
Controlling Layout with Positioning
- Control Layout with absolute positioning
- Create a fixed multi-column layout
- Control layout with relative positioning
- Control the display of layered elements
- Apply fixed positioning
Styling Forms
- Properties of input elements
- Grouping form elements together
- Formatting text in forms
- Changing the appearance of buttons
Creating a Print Page
- Showing and hiding elements
- Altering layout
- Changing font and font size
- Showing or hiding a link
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