With Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, web designers have more control over how their pages appear. They can define the typography, color, and layout of web pages more efficiently and with greater creative options than classic HTML.

This intensive two-day course will provide you with the knowledge and hands-on practice to create web pages laid out and styled with CSS.

What will be covered

• Designing with Web standards in mind
• What is CSS?
• Applying CSS
• Modular CSS
• CSS syntax
• Commenting
• Flagging
• Selectors
• Grouping selectors
• Contextual selectors
• element.class
• element#ID
• The cascade
• Cascading order
• Inheritance
• Multiple style sheets
• Measurements
• HTML review: Block vs inline elements
• CSS classification properties
• The box model
• Divisions (divs) and spans
• Text and font
• Links
• Colors, backgrounds, images
• Lists
• Tables
• Tableless web design
• Types of layouts
• Positioning
• Four main types of positioning

Who should attend

This course is for web designers and developers who want to:

• Format text in ways that can't be done using HTML
• Keep the look of pages consistent throughout the site
• Keeps content separate from presentation
• Create web pages that load faster
• Build sites with web standards

Prerequisites

To gain the most from the class, you should already have:

• Familiarity with web terminology, (such as those covered in PCCI's Web Design Fundamentals seminar).
• Working knowledge of HTML.