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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Essentials Introduction 1 Day - London

This scheduled Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) introduction course provides web professionals with the ability to control the rendering, e.g. fonts, colours, leading, margins, typefaces, and other aspects of style, of a Web document without compromising its structure using Cascading Style Sheets. Using common desktop publishing terminology, Cascading Style Sheets makes it easy for professional as well as untrained designers to make use of its features.

The introductory CSS training course is designed to help delegates move to the next level of web design by understanding and applying CSS confidently and professionally. At the end of this course attendees will feel more confident about taking on more complex and challenging projects.

During this one-day hands-on introduction CSS training course delegates will:

-Say goodbye to the <font> tag
-Learn how to use relative and absolute sizing and why it matters
-Find out what a <div> is and how and why to use it
-Learn how to lay out your page without tables – create 2 & 3 column layouts
-Understand the box model – how to work with padding, margins, borders and backgrounds
-How to create image bullets again, without tables
-Produce rollover-effect horizontal and vertical list-based navigation
-Imaginative use of background images
-Quickly grasp the concepts of Embedded styles, External styles and InLine styles
-Bring a professional and imaginative approach to building a web site

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A bespoke version of this scheduled
course is also available to suit
your requirements & timeframe.

 
Cascading Style Sheets training at XChangeTraining
 

Price:

£295
 

Duration:

1 Day
 

Course Location:

Central London
 

Course Dates:

 
12 Jun    
 

 

  A copy of this quality manual is available to all attendees of this course:
 
 

HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide

  Price listed is per delegate and excludes VAT.
 

XChange Training limit class size (4-8 delegates max) to ensure an excellent quality of training is provided so courses can fill up quickly. Please book up early to guarantee your place.
 

View Current Offers and Promotions available in conjunction with this course including Half Price Training!

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Essentials Introduction 1 Day - London 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.

Introducing CSS
-A brief review of HTML
-Understanding the limitations of HTML
-The evolution and current status of CSS
-Where to keep up to date with CSS
-CSS and CSS2

CSS structure
-The importance of DTD (document type declaration) when using CSS
-The Style and Comment HTML tags
-claration block
-ID and class styles

Applying and modifying CSS
-Embedded styles
-InLine styles
-External Style Sheets
-Locating amending embedded styles
-Locating and amending inline styles
-Linking vs importing external style sheets
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CSS with HTML
-ID vs Class selectors
-Descendant selectors and grouping selectors
-The DIV and SPAN tags

Typography with CSS
-Fonts and font families
-Sizing text using different units of measure
-Line height
-Font weight
-Working with colour

Hyperlinks
-Link basics
-Styling hyperlinks
-Link text decoration
-Creating rollovers using hover

Improved layout
-Using the box model
-Padding and margins
-Element positioning

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Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites

This course is designed for web professionals who are seeking to provide a more accessible design structure using Cascading Style Sheets.

In order to get the best out of this course delegates should have a good working knowledge of HTML or have attended an introductory level HTML course.


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Location information for this scheduled course

This course will be offered at the main XChange Training London training centre at:

5 St John’s Lane
Clerkenwell
London
EC1M 4BH

St John’s Lane is located in the heart of Clerkenwell close to the junction of Farringdon and Clerkenwell Road. Farringdon tube & train station is a few minutes away and the office can also be accessed from Chancery Lane and Barbican tubes in about 10 minutes.

Courses are run between 10am and 5pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks.

 

Training Centre address
Central London

Tel: 0845 363 1130
Email: info@xchangetraining.co.uk

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Advantages of learning Cascading Style Sheets with XChange Training

-XChange Training is an specialist training centre for web design and web development
-Our Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) trainers are experienced web design professionals with excellent knowledge of all aspects of web development, effective page design and SEO planning.
-XChange training focuses on real tasks that reflect how the software is used in professional situations.
-Free Course manual provided for each trainee as excellent post-course reference material.
-Free email support service for 6 months after course included in the price.
-We get consistently good feedback from our clients.

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