CSS Essentials Training

cascading style sheets

CSS Essentials CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) gives designers precise control over every aspect of Web page design and layout. With CSS, important Web page elements such as fonts, lists, color, backgrounds, borders, relative positioning, and visibility, can be styled and re-styled, allowing flexibility and precision.

In this hands-on 3-lesson course, you'll develop a thorough knowledge of both the technical and design parameters of CSS. Class projects involve hand-coding sites in CSS, working with your instructor Ian Kelleigh to get it right. Basic experience in HTML is a requirement for this class.

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Class Title: CSS Essentials Start Date: Classes start daily. Enroll today and gain immediate access. Class Length: Three months of access to class materials and instructor feedback. Instructor: Ian Kelleigh Other details: Self-paced, online, 24 access to online learning environment
	Tuition: $408

Class Instructor Bio: Ian Kelleigh has over 10 years of experience in both print and web design and development, with a specific expertise in Macromedia's FreeHand and Flash. Ian is a member of Macromedia's selective test panel for Freehand, and runs the award-winning tutorial Web site www.freehandsource.com dedicated to the software. Ian freelances in Seattle , and his clients include Microsoft, Group Health Cooperative, and Virtuoso. LEFT: Get sitewide tag control over your HTML.

Class Projects and Objectives:

This online class is packed with projects and tips. Students can expect to:

• Learn why one should use CSS instead of HTML to style text.
• Learn what CSS is capable of doing and several basic CSS styles.
• Learn how to add styles to an element, a Web page, or an entire Web site.
• Get an overview of how the cascade order works.
• Develop an understanding and appreciation for the simplicity of CSS over HTML styles.
• Learn to look closely at styles to consider how to add emphasis to certain elements without creating distractions.
• Use CSS to tweak the design of a page without having to substantially alter the code.
• Learn to use a single external CSS file to add styles to multiple Web pages.
• Learn the benefits of CSS typography over HTML text and type as graphics.
• Learn how to use CSS to control font face, size, style, weight, variant, and decoration.
• Learn how to use CSS to control text kerning, spacing, leading, case, and alignment.
• Learn how to use CSS to set lists, colors and background images, and hyperlink styles.
• Learn how to use CSS to set dimensions, borders, margins, and padding.
• Learn the advantages and disadvantages of using CSS for layout.
• Learn how to position any element exactly where you want it on the screen.
• Learn how to show, hide, and clip elements to just show the parts you want.
• Learn how to wrap elements around each other.
• Learn how to apply positioning controls to create a column based layout.
• Learn through a project the advantages and disadvantages of layout with CSS.
• Create a new design for an online magazine site.
• Create a design that integrates specified logo and logo color scheme.
• Use positioning not HTML tables for layout.