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Cascading Style Sheets - Two Day Introduction Training Course— Bespoke

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) arrived in 1996. CSS is a significant breakthrough in web design allowing designers more control over the style and layout of their web pages than can be achieved using basic HTML. You can define a style for each HTML tag and apply it to individual web pages (embedded styles), localised parts of your page (inline style) or for the entire site itself (external style sheets). With the latter, simple modifications to your style result in those changes globally updating all pages linked to your style sheet. CSS was updated in 1998 and continues to be ‘a work in progress’.

Who is this course for?

This hands-on course is designed for users who currently use HTML or have attended an HTML introduction course. The course will take users to the next level of web design allowing them to create professional looking web sites for their corporate intranet or Internet site. New users should be familiar HTML, the operating system they use and have good solid understanding of the world wide web.

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Cascading Style Sheets - Two Day Introduction Training Course Outline

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

CSS Introduction

-HTML Structure and Content, CSS Presentation
-Advantages of CSS
-Creating and Using Style-Sheets
-CSS Rules: The Basic Syntax
-Case, Whitespace and Comments in CSS
-The CSS Standards
-The Scope Of CSS
-Browser Support for CSS
-Hands-on Exercises

CSS Boxes and CSS Selectors

-The CSS Box Model
-CSS and Logical HTML Structure
-Styling Boxes: Borders, Margins and Padding
-The IE Box Model and Quirks Mode
-IE Box Model Workarounds
-Using IE6 Standards Mode
-Specifying CSS Distances
-Problems with Absolute Units: pixels and point sizes
-Using Proportional Units: em, ex and percentages
-Formatting Box Edges Differently
-Shorthand Syntax for Sets of Edges
-Using Margins and Padding Effectively
-Collapsing Vertical Margins on Paragraphs
-Using Negative Margins on Boxes
-Background Images on CSS Boxes
-Grouping Elements with HTML Classes
-Styling Multiple Elements Similarly (Selector Grouping)
-Block Boxes and Inline Boxes
-Block Box Behaviour
-nline Box Behaviour
-Hands-on Exercises

Text Formatting in CSS

-Text Formatting
-Typefaces, Alternatives and Defaults
-Text Size — a Serious Usability Issue
-Font Characteristics
-Setting and Using Space Within Text
-Formatting Blocks of Text
-Using Arbitrary Inline Tags: <span>
-Hands-on Exercises

More CSS Selectors and Selection

-Using HTML Element IDs in CSS
-Using CSS Descendant Selectors
-Descendant Selector Examples
-Child, Sibling and Pseudo-Class Selectors
-Why You Need To Know Them
-Browser Support and CSS Hacks
-Distinguishing and Setting Link States
-Link, Visited, Hover, Active, Focus
-Modularising CSS Style-Sheets
-Simpler Management, Less Effort, More Control
-Embedded CSS Styles in HTML Documents
-How and When to Use Them (Rarely).
-Distinguishing Print, Screen and other Output Formats
-Special Issues in CSS for Print
-Hands-on Exercises

CSS Positioning

-Choosing the Right CSS
-Technique for Positioning Blocks
-The Position Property, Floats, Margins (inc. Negative and Auto), etc
-Static Positioning and Normal Flow
-Absolute Positioning Outside Normal Flow
-Relative Positioning
-Fixed Positioning Outside Normal Flow
-Relative Absolute Positioning
-Absolutely Positioned Blocks in Relatively Positioned Containers
-Floating Boxes with the CSS float property
-Page Layout Using Absolutely Positioned Blocks
-Hands-on Exercises

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More on CSS Page Layout

-Alternative Methods of CSS Positioning
-Centring Blocks
-Styling Lists
-Redefining the Behaviour of Inline and Block Elements
-Hiding and Revealing Blocks
-Table Formatting in CSS
-Styling Table Cell Borders
-Page Layout with Table Display Properties
-Hands-on Exercises

Cascade, Precedence, Specificity and Inheritance in CSS

-Taking Control: Ensuring that CSS Rules Interact in the Way You Want
-Combining Styles: Different Types, Origins, Importance, Specificity and Order
-Examples: Combining Rules
-Cascading and Cascade Order
-Resolving Style Conflicts By Origin
-Resolving Style Conflicts By Importance
-Resolving Conflict By Selector Specificity
-Resolving Conflict By Order
-Non-CSS Presentational Hints
-Property Inheritance
-Hands-on Exercises

CSS Layers and Translucency

-Different Forms of Layered Presentation in CSS
-Layering with the z-index Property
-Different Methods for Creating Translucency Effects
-The CSS3 opacity Property
-opacity Example
-Fixed Attachment Backgrounds in Layers
-background-attachment Example
-Transparency and Semi-transpaency with Alpha-Blended PNG
-PNG Translucency Example and Sample Code
-Pseudo-Transparency with JPG Positioned Backgrounds
-JPG Pseudo Transparency Example
-Hands-on Exercises

Using CSS in the Real World

-Deploying CSS
-CSS Formatting Versus HTML Formatting
-Achieving a Balance
-Standard Tags and Semantic Markup
-Usability
-Readable Pages
-Screen Size and Fluid Design
-Text Size, Including Internet Explorer Quirks
-Table Layout and CSS Positioning
-Table Layout and CSS Positioning as Alternatives
-Combining Table Layout with CSS Positioning
-CSS Browser Support
-Testing Websites
-Using Test Suites and Multiple Browsers
-Cross-platform Testing in Single-platform Environments
-CSS Help and Advice
-Authorative Sources versus Web Myths and Gossip
-Free Lifetime Support

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Advantages of learning Cascading Style Sheets with XChangeTraining

-Our CSS trainers are experienced web design professionals with excellent knowledge off all aspects of internet technology and graphic design.
-It's bespoke and solutions based: before you come to XChange Training we agree the course content with you based on your needs.
-We take the time to work specifically on any files you bring along to the course, ensuring that you see benefits to your workflow immediately.
-XChange training focuses on real tasks that reflect how the software is used in professional situations.
-On-site and off-site training is available for the whole UK.
-Free email support service for 6 months after course.
-We get consistently good feedback from our clients.
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Training Pricing

On-site course pricing
Prices include a set of course notes per trainee, 6 months telephone and/or e-mail support service after the course, all refreshments and lunch if held at the training centre.

For training onsite courses outside of London a standard return train fare and/or taxi fare may be applicable.

Training centre pricing
Pricing for training at the Clerkenwell facility:
1 person £849 for a 2 day course
2 people £949 for a 2 day course
3 people £1049 for a 2 day course
4 people £1149 for a 2 day course
5 people £1199 for a 2 day course
6 people £1249 for a 2 day course
7 people £1299 for a 2 day course
8 people £1349 for a 2 day course
All prices subject to VAT

 

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