Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Course: CSS
Duration: 2 Days
Level: II
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http://www.verhoef-training.com/courses/CSS.html
Course Summary
You are familiar with using HTML to design web pages. You
have used HTML style-oriented tags and attributes to stylize
and design your pages. Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS,
is integrated into HTML 4.01 and forms an important component
of successful web design. CSS offers great flexibility
and ease in designing web pages without code heavy HTML
documents. In this course, you will work with properties
and styles related to colors, typography, page layouts,
customized cursors, links, and forms available in CSS
to build an effective web page.
Topics Covered In This Course
Controlling Color and Typography
- Create an Embedded Style Sheet
- Apply Color
- Comment Your Code
- Modify Text Styles
- Modify Font Styles
- Create a Linked Style Sheet
Designing with the Cascade
- Create Class Styles
- Create ID Styles
- Create Contextual Styles
- Target Styles to Elements with Specific Attributes
- Create Style Sheets that Cascade
- Import Style Sheets
- Create Inline Styles
Designing Content Sections
- Control Margins and Padding
- Create Borders
- Control Element Dimensions
- Create Floating Elements
- Control Content Overflow
Controlling Layout with Positioning
- Control Layout with Absolute Positioning
- Create a Fixed Multi-Column Layout
- Create a Fluid Multi-Column Layout
- Control Layout with Relative Positioning
- Control the Display of Layered Elements
- Apply Fixed Positioning
Enhancing an Existing Design
- Customize Cursors
- Customize Link Styles
- Customize Forms
- Work with Background Images
- Customize Lists
- Create Generated Content
Creating Alternate Style Sheets
- Create Accessible Style Sheets
- Apply User-Defined System Fonts and Colors
- Create a Print Style Sheet
- Appendix A: The :first-line and :first-letter Pseudo-Classes
- Appendix B: The DOCTYPE Switch
- Appendix C: Scroll Bar Colors
- Appendix D: Proprietary Cursor Styles
What You Can Expect
Upon successful completion of this course, students will
be able to:
- Control color and typography.
- Create style sheets that cascade according to established
guidelines.
- Design content sections using box properties.
- Control your page layouts with CSS positioning.
- Enhance an existing design.
- Create alternate style sheets and link your pages to them
to enhance the accessibility and functionality of your
websites.
Who Should Take This Course
Intended for the student who is an experienced developer
of web pages and has some experience with HTML. Students
should be comfortable creating web pages, writing HTML
code, and in using Internet Explorer or other browsers.
Recommended Prerequisites
To ensure your success, we recommend you understand how
to create web pages in HTML.
Training Style
Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning
model with structured hands-on activities.
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