Computer WorkGroup Training

Casc. Style Sheets

Duration : ½ Day

Pricing : Basic - 1 person $450, 2 people $500 for both (see pricing page for full details)

Pre-requisites : Introduction to GoLive or equivalent experience.

For Whom: The course is intended for people who wish to format web pages through the use of cascading styles, and create consistent appearence of pages, that are easily maintainable.

Course Objectives: At the conclusion of the training participants will be able to -

• Format a site with CSS
• Create Cascading style sheets
• Create Class, Tag, and ID styles
• Link external style sheets to pages
• Create internal style sheets
• Format text and links with styles
• Format pages with styles

COURSE OUTLINE

Cascading Style Sheets - ½ Day Workshop

Overview

• What is a style sheet
• Why use them
• External vs embedded
• Previewing the results in current browsers

Creating a style sheet

• Saving and linking a style sheet
• Linking and unlinking a style sheet to multiple pages

Basic selectors and properties

• Selectors
• Class Selectors
• ID Selectors

Basic text properties

• font-family property
• Inheritance
• font-size property
• Other basic properties
• text-decoration
• font-style
• font-weight
• Case sensitivity

Background properties

• Introduction to the background properties
• colour
• Colour keywords
• Hexadecimal values
• The color property

Advanced CSS backgrounds

• background-image
• URL values
• background-repeat
• background-position
• background-attachment

Page layout

• Whitespace
• Margin

Navigation bars

• Building a navigation bar