Web Development with Cascading Style Sheets
2 Days: $750.00
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is one of the essential technologies for creating any web site.
This course is designed for students who want to learn how to use Cascading Style Sheets to develop and design Web sites.
Note that CSS is used in two fundamental ways when creating web sites:
formating text and creating styles for text site wide.
working with html (div tags) in creating layouts for web pages.
Students will learn how to use all the features of the CSS-1 specification, and a few features of CSS-2. Students will explore browser workarounds and sound development principles along the way. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify style sheets of various types, customize styles, apply positioning properties to layouts, control background appearance, style text and work with CSS typographics features, manage the CSS atributes site-wide.
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People who need to learn CSS to create or manage a web-wite, or anyone who needs to work with CSS.
Identify style sheets of various types, understand the advantages and risks of designing with style sheets, and apply correct style sheet syntax.
Apply CLASS, TAG and ID selectors to customize styles, use the DIV and SPAN elements to construct styles, and create an external style sheet and linking documents to it.
Understand the rules of the cascade, and create cascading styles.
Style text with typographical properties, including aligning and indenting text, controlling the spacing of lines and characters modifying other text characteristics; declare specific and generic fonts size fonts with various methods; and create variations of font styles.
Apply text and background colors with a variety of methods and other background techniques, like controlling background tiling and position.
Control the margins, borders, and padding of page elements, and create floating elements and list styles.
Apply position properties to control page layout by absolute and relative coordinates, and control the width, overflow, and layering of page elements.
Create styles that break down gracefully, such as dynamic hyperlinks and cursor styles, and apply filters and contextual styles.
Anyone who needs to learn the use of Cascading Style Sheets. Some familiarity with html or xhtml is recommended.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Designing with Style Sheets
Style Sheet Syntax
Creating Simple Rules
Lesson 2: Creating Rules
Applying Class, Tag and ID Selectors
The DIV and SPAN Elements
Linked (External) Style Sheets
Lesson 3: Conflicting Rules: The Cascade
Rules in Conflict; Cascading Order
Lesson 4: Text and Font Properties
Typographical Properties
Font Properties
Lesson 5: Applying Colors and Backgrounds
Applying Colors
Background Techniques
Lesson 6: Box Properties
Formatting with the Box Model
Borders
Floating Elements
Styling Lists
Lesson 7: CSS Positioning
Positioning Elements Absolutely and Relatively
Layering Elements with the z-index Property
Lesson 8: Design and Usage Techniques
Dynamic Link Colors
Cursor Styles
Styling Form Elements
Dynamically Linked Style Sheets
Contextual Selectors