Styling Web Pages with Cascading Style Sheets
| Duration: | 1 day |
| Prerequisite: | Students should have a solid understanding of (X)HTML. A basic understanding of Cascading Style Sheets would be helpful. |
| Course Materials: | Course book containing exercises, 456 pages |
| Prices: | $260 each for 1 student (one-on-one training) $230 each for 2 to 3 students $200 each for 4 to 6 students $200 for the first 6 students, $125 for each additional student |
| Description: | CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is used by professional web designers to define the presentation and visually layout of web pages. This class is part one of a 2-day Cascading Style Sheets class divided into 2 parts: Styling Web Pages with Cascading Style Sheets and Logical Layouts Using Cascading Style Sheets. Students have the option of taking the class 2 consecutive days, one at a time, or just one class day.
Styling Web Pages with Cascading Style Sheets starts with a detailed analysis of CSS basics. Students then learn how to style all the different parts of a web page. The topics we cover include styling text, backgrounds, colors, images, lists, links, and tabular data. This class is loaded with great information, so get a good night's rest and be ready to learn CSS the right way! |
Getting Started
Applying CSS to (X)HTML
Importing and Combining Styles
Maintaining and Organizing Style Sheets
Effective CSS Syntax
Core Concepts
ID vs. Class
Using the Cascade
Grouping
Inheritance
Contextual Selectors
CSS Measurements
CSS Building Blocks
Divisions
Dimensions: Width and Height
Margin
Padding
Margin, Padding, and the Body
Border
Text
Why text is so important
Font Properties
Available Fonts
Default Browser Display
Apply Some Style
Line Height
Letter Spacing
Color, Backgrounds and Images
Color for Text
Background Color
Image Formats for Backgrounds
Background Image
Lists
Why Use Lists
The Unordered List
Lists for Navigation
The Order List
Links
Link Markup
Default Link Styling
Simply CSS Rules
Other Useful Link Properties
Targeting Links with Descendent Selectors
Transforming a Navigational Bar with Links
Tables and Definition Lists
Tables
Definition Lists