CSS Essentials Training

cascading style sheets

Advanced CSS Layouts CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) -based layouts are essential to the modern Web designer's toolkit, enabling complex symmetric, asymmetric, and column-based designs with great flexibility for the designer and the user. Advanced knowledge of floats, positioning, source ordering, and frameworks can set you apart as a professional designer and bring greater sophistication to your client projects.

In this course, you'll extending your basic CSS knowledge with float-based layouts, exploring multi-column fixed and fluid designs, grid-based designs, and sophisticated navigation techniques. You'll then learn about types of precision positioning and how to incorporate them in layouts with headers and footers. The course also explores important strategies for working with CSS, from tips on writing and formatting your code to creating print styles and working with frameworks.

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Class Title: Advanced CSS Layouts Start Date: Classes start daily. Enroll today and gain immediate access. Class Length: Six months of access to class materials and instructor feedback. Instructor: Christopher Schmitt Other details: Self-paced, online, 24 access to online learning environment

THIS CLASS IS OFFERED AT SESSIONS COLLEGE: get the details (Check the syllabus at Sessions College for updated class information.)

Class Instructor Bio: Christopher Schmitt is the founder of Heatvision, a small new media publishing and design firm. Christopher is an award-winning Web designer who has been working with the Web since 1993. Christopher earned a Masters in Communication for Interactive and New Communication Technologies while obtaining a graduate certificate in Project Management from FSU's College of Communication. As a sought-after speaker and trainer, Christopher regularly demonstrates the use and benefits of practical standards-based designs. Christopher is the Co-Lead of the Adobe Task Force for the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and author of numerous Web design and digital imaging books, including Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites, and CSS Cookbook. Christopher has also written for New Architect Magazine, A List Apart, Digital Web, and Web Reference LEFT: Get sitewide control over layouts in CSS.

Class Projects and Objectives:

This online training class is packed with CSS techniques and concepts. Students will meet the following objectives:

• Learn how float behavior works in Web browsers using CSS.
• Create fixed and fluid column-based layouts using floats.
• Create horizontal, vertical, and sprite-based navigation using float
• Create an image gallery using a float-based grid.
• Construct absolute, relative, and fixed positioned layouts.
• Apply headers and footers to multi-column positioned layouts.
• Use source ordering in positioned and float-based layouts.
• Write well-structured CSS code.
• Install, customize, and work with a CSS framework.
• Develop a print style for effective translation of a Web page to print.