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 both CS3 and CS4 versions of the Adobe suite: whichever version you use is covered in detail. In addition, we also now preview the functionality of the new Adobe CS5 suite. Our Apple training courses utilise the latest versions of 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.
Courseware: The book which accompanies this course is posted to you upon payment confirmation.
Accommodation & Transport: Details of local accomodation and transport 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
