CSS Essentials | Course Overview

Course Description

CSS is a visual formatting language that enables web designers to replicate many of the features that print designers take for granted, such as multi-column layouts, text styling, applying borders, margins and padding. The course also covers topics such as advanced form styling, designing printed output, creating site navigation bars and using background images.

This course will benefit anybody who needs to create professional, consistent looking web sites using CSS. There is a strong emphasis on creating standards compliant and accessible pages which render consistently within all popular browsers as well as tips on how to position your pages higher in the Search Engine Results pages.

Prerequisite

This web design course is aimed at people who have attended the HTML & Web Principles course or for people who have been using Dreamweaver but not using the code directly within the program.

What you will learn

The focus of the 2 day CSS Essentials course is on formatting and laying out your site using CSS instead of tables. It examines advanced design techniques such as positioning and floating structural elements, CSS based navigation and creating rounded corners and faux columns.

Other subjects include: Creating a favicon for your URL display, Creating print style sheets and designing for mobile devices, Using the coding interface, Creating and styling user accessible forms, Creating and styling interactive elements such as tabbed panels with Spry.