Cascading Style Sheets Intro

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Cascading Style Sheets Introduction

This online course covers the basics of working with CSS, how to write it, where to write it, and how to apply it to your web pages.

Throughout this course you will go through various practical examples that show you how to make pure CSS buttons, format images, add animations, style your links, and so forth. By the end of this course you will have gained a good basic understanding of CSS and you will be able to see how powerful it can be. You will be able to apply these techniques to your own pages and you will be able to build upon these techniques to create your own styles.

The course is run through our learning management system and contains over 4 hours of video tutorials produced by our instructors, as well as extensive tutorials, sample files and instructor support. The course is designed for those who are completely new to CSS.

Experienced Instructors

Over 20 years experience

Post Course Support

Hours of videos & more

Closed Courses

Online, Classroom or Tailored

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£60.00

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General Introduction

Overview of the course
What applications you can use
Setting up your test server

Basic CSS

Loading order
Background colour
Formatting text
Margins and padding
CSS resets
Borders
Width and height
Lists

Using CSS

How to format a web page
How are conflicts resolved
How cascading works
Looking at Dreamweaver

Where to put your CSS

Inline CSS
Document CSS
CSS files

Styling Links

Setting up your links
Formatting your tags
Block display
Link pseudo-classes (hover, active, visited, link)

Laying out your page with CSS

Creating boxes
Positioning boxes
The position attribute
Laying out a simple page

Media types and media queries

What are Media types
What are Media queries
How to use media types and queries

Wireframing - converting your ideas to practical web pages

What is wireframing
How to wireframe
Converting your wireframes to web pages
Polishing the result

Practical examples

Formatting a poem
Effects
Creating a pure CSS button
Rotating
Fonts and masks
Transitions

What you will learn

The CSS Introduction course will get you up and running in no time at all. During the course you will learn:

What CSS is
When and where to use it
How the cascade works
What Media queries are
How to format content with CSS
How conflicts work in CSS
Examples of CSS at work

Who should attend this course

If you want to learn to use CSS content but have no past experience, then this course is for you. If you are taking this course you should have a basic understanding of HTML, and be already computer literate.