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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Training Course

Cascading Style Sheets Training Schedule

Training Course Synopsis

This two day course teaches the web designer how to control the appearance of their web design by separating the visual presentation from the content. This class covers basic to advanced design topics including selectors, the cascade, and inheritance. The training also covers how to build effective navigation, how to lay out pages, and how to work with typography, colors, backgrounds, and white space. Using a project-based approach, the students will through the process of creating a Web page, while learning the essentials of CSS along the way.

Training Course Length and Time

This class is 2 days long. Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled 12-1. Students provide their own lunch.

What You Will Learn in This Training Course

  • Understanding CSS Terminology
  • Using Class Selectors
  • Using floats for Page Layout
  • Setting Foreground and Background Properties
  • Using External Style Sheets
  • Changing Font Styles and Weights
  • Understanding Margins and Adding Borders
  • Styling Tables and Captions
  • Styling for Specific Mediums
  • Styling for Print
  • Setting Global Styles
  • Laying out a Navbar

Who Should Attend this Training Course

Web professionals who are seeking to create a more accessible and flexible page design structure using Cascading Style Sheets. This class covers CSS for type, page layout, and styling for specific mediums.

Enrollment

Please fill out our registration form and fax it to us at (312) 896-9094.

Locations for this Training Course

We have company-operated facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Diego and Washington DC. We also work with a network of rental facilities and do private onsite training offering our classes regularly across the United States and in Canada. Please double-check the location of your class with our office to make sure you get to the right location.

Goals for this Training Course

Sterling Ledet and Associates realizes the importance of education and we take pride in being able to offer you classes that are more custom fit to your needs. Call us at (770) 414-5007 if you have any special questions or e-mail us at sales@ledet.com.

Prerequisites for this Training Course

Knowledge of your operating system and basic computer navigation is required for all classes. In addition, students are required to be relatively well-versed in the basics of HTML and web coding as well as familiarity with web terminology.

Lesson 1

  • Introduction to CSS
  • Understanding CSS
  • What is CSS?
  • Why use CSS for web design?
  • Authoring CSS

Lesson 2

  • Understanding CSS
  • Reviewing XHTML basics
  • Understanding CSS Terminology
  • Adding rules to a stylesheet
  • Adding Selectors
  • Working with multiple selectors
  • Embedding a stylesheet
  • Importing an external style sheet
  • Importing multiple style sheets
  • Linking to an external style sheet
  • Managing style sheets

Lesson 3

  • Understanding Selectors
  • Using ID Selectors
  • Using Class Selectors
  • Using Grouped Selectors
  • Using Descendant Selectors
  • Looking for the sources of styles
  • Resolving style conflict
  • Using the !Important declaration
  • Understanding inheritance
  • Revealing unstyled documents
  • Applying user styles sheets

Lesson 4

  • Using CSS to Affect Page Layout
  • Introducing the CSS box model
  • Creating simple floats
  • Using floats for page layout
  • Fixing column drop
  • Clearing essentials
  • Containing floats
  • Displaying elements

Lesson 5

  • Setting Foreground and Background Properties
  • Adding foreground colors
  • Adding color background elements
  • Adding background images
  • Repeating background images
  • Positioning background images
  • Using background shorthand declaration

Lesson 6

  • Setting Typography
  • Altering line height
  • Using font families
  • Changing font styles and weights
  • Sizing fonts
  • Writing font shorthand declarations
  • Aligning text horizontally
  • Aligning text vertically
  • Transforming text
  • Decorating text

Lesson 7

  • Using Margins and Borders to Create Whitespace and Separation
  • Understanding margins
  • Adding borders
  • Implementing padding
  • Using negative margins
  • Collapsing margins

Lesson 8

  • Styling Tables
  • Styling tables and captions
  • Styling table cells
  • Styling column classes
  • Styling links in table cells

Lesson 9

  • Styling for Print
  • Styling for specific mediums
  • Creating a print style sheet
  • Hiding elements for print
  • Styling for print
  • Applying complex styling for print
  • Creating a footer

Lesson 10

  • Bringing it All Together
  • Working with text fragments
  • Setting Global Styles
  • Defining Masthead and Navbar colors
  • Laying out the Navbar
  • Using columns
  • Setting content styles
  • Starting the sidebar
  • Creating the sidebar boxes
  • Completing the sidebar
  • Styling the table
  • Creating the footer

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Thu. Oct 07, 2010

Tue. Nov 09, 2010