Elstree Film Studios - Training Courses - CSS Layout
This course has now been updated into our CSS Training Course.
Location: 21st Century New Media Ltd, Elstree Film Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1JG. [
Click here for a map]
Times: 10.00am to 4.30pm. For security reasons, further details are only provided upon booking.
Software Versions: All of our Adobe courses include lessons generic to CS3, CS4 and CS5 versions of the Adobe suite: whichever version you use is covered in detail. Our Apple training courses utilise Final Cut Studio HD (also known of as version 3 or FCS 2009).
Equipment: Our fully featured training room includes six top-of-the-range iMac computers configured to work in both Macintosh (OSX) and PC (Windows) modes, ensuring you the maximum familiarity with your chosen operating system.
Accommodation: Details of local accomodation can be found
here.
Further assistance: Our
FAQ help page contains the answers to many popular questions. Alternatively please call
0844 844 2428 to arrange to speak to our training manager.
COURSE CONTENT
CSS Introduction
- What are style sheets?
- What is CSS?
- Where does CSS come from?
- What does CSS do?
- The legacy of HTML
- CSS Productivity advantages
- CSS Site management advantages
- CSS Accessibility advantages
- CSS problems and shortcomings
Syntax Basics
- How style sheets work
- Anatomy of style sheets - statements, selectors, properties and values
Basic Selectors and Properties
- XHTML / HTML element selectors
- Basic text properties
- Inheritance
- Whitespace in CSS code
Linking and Embedding
- Linking documents to style sheets
- Embedding documents in style sheets
- Which is better, linking or embedding?
More Text Properties
- More CSS text and font properties - text-decoration, font-style, font-weight
- Background properties
- Colour values in CSS
- Group selectors
- Case sensitivity in CSS
Background Properties
- Background properties
- Colour in CSS
- The colour property
- Group selectors
Class & Pseudo Class Selectors
- Background properties
- Colour in CSS
- The colour property
- Group selectors
Page Layout
- The use of whitespace
- Margins
- Padding
- Text alignment and centring objects
- Borders
- Text indentation
Links with Class
- Combining link and class selectors
A Navigation Bar
- Cascading
- Descendant selectors
Importing Style Sheets
- importing style sheets
- using importing to manage large web sites
Real World CSS
- Validating HTML and CSS
- Design for adaptability and accessibility
- Real world issues for commonly used properties
- Browser compatibility. Making style sheets work today
