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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Essentials Introduction 1 Day - London
Key Course Details:
Level:
Introduction
Duration:
1
Day - 10am to 5pm
Price:
£295 + vat
Learn the basics of styling web pages as we show you how to get started with the power of CSS. Join us to see how applying simple CSS 'rules' can have dramatic effects on the look and feel of your website. Pick up the tips you need to add some polish to your web content.
After we guide you on what CSS is and how it is written, we will show you how to harness the power of the simple rules that define the appearance of every element that appears on a web page. You will learn how to control fonts, colours, widths, and much more in this fascinating insight into the control offered by CSS.
Learn the basics of styling web pages as we show you how to get started with the power of CSS. Join us to see how applying simple CSS 'rules' can have dramatic effects on the look and feel of your website. Pick up the tips you need to add some polish to your web content.
After we guide you on what CSS is and how it is written, we will show you how to harness the power of the simple rules that define the appearance of every element that appears on a web page. You will learn how to control fonts, colours, widths, and much more in this fascinating insight into the control offered by CSS.
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Cascading Style Sheets Introduction 1 Day
Course Details
This 1-day Essentials course will show you how Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used to control the appearance of web pages without interfering with the HTML of the pages. This separation of structure and style helps to give CSS such an important role in web design. Anyone with an interest in creating or managing web pages will find that being able to work with CSS is an essential skill for all web professionals.
With our help, you will learn how to use CSS to control every aspect of a site's visuals: its fonts, colours, leading, margins, and more.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Use correct styles instead of deprecated HTML tags
- Design without relying on tables
- Include padding, margins, borders, and backgrounds
- Write selectors to target only specific parts of a page
- Produce horizontal and vertical navigation bars
- Position page elements
- Style hyperlinks
- Add background images
- Differentiate between external, embedded, and inline styles
Our goal is for you to understand how to enhance the visual appearance of your web pages.
Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites:
This course is intended for web professionals interested in learning about the visual improvements that can be made through the effective use of CSS.
You will need basic PC or Mac skills, including a solid understanding of a computer's operating system (Windows or Mac OS). You will also need to know how to launch a program, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media. Ideally, you will have taken our HTML Essentials Introduction 1 Day course.
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Full Course Outline
The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.
Introducing CSS- A brief review of HTML
- Understanding the limitations of HTML
- The evolution and current status of CSS
- Where to keep up to date with CSS
- CSS and CSS3
- The importance of DTD (document type declaration) when using CSS
- The Style and Comment HTML tags
- Declaration block
- ID and class styles
- Embedded styles
- InLine styles
- External Style Sheets
- Locating amending embedded styles
- Locating and amending inline styles
- Linking vs importing external style sheet
- ID vs Class selectors
- Descendant selectors and grouping selectors
- The DIV and SPAN tags
Typography with CSS- Fonts and font families
- Sizing text using different units of measure
- Line height
- Font weight
- Working with colour
- Link basics
- Styling hyperlinks
- Link text decoration
- Creating rollovers using hover
- Using the box model
- Padding and margins
- Element positioning
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Location Details
This course is provided at the XChange Training London training centre based at:
5 St John’s Lane
Clerkenwell
London
EC1M 4BHSt John’s Lane is located in the heart of Clerkenwell close to the junction of Farringdon and Clerkenwell Road. Farringdon tube & train station is just a few minutes away and the training centre can also be accessed from Chancery Lane and Barbican tubes in about 10 minutes. There is also easy direct access by bus from Waterloo (243) and West End (55) with nearby stops.
Daily course times run between 10am and 4:30pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.
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Whats Included:
Your choice of Windows or Mac 
Certified hands-on training 
Small class size (max 4-8) 
6 months post course support 
Quality reference manual 
Authorised Course Certificate 
Lunch and refreshments
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the course times?
For all courses in the London Centre the normal session timings are 10am to 5pm with an hour break for lunch. In addition to the hour lunch break there are also two fifteen minute coffee breaks mid morning and mid afternoon.
Daily times are:
09.45 - Registration
10.00 - Course start
13.00 - Lunch
14.00 - Afternoon starts
17.00 - Course ends
Do you offer discounts
or promotions?
We offer a range of regular discounts available for self funding individuals, charities and education along with period special offers. See our promotions page for full details.
What is provided with this course?
During the course we provide all computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac, lunch and refreshments along with pads & pens. After the course you will receive the authorised Certificate, quality reference manual and 6 months direct post course support.
Does this course give
a qualification?
Although this course does not provide an actual qualification each delegate is provided with an official Certificate for completion of the course level.
Can you invoice my company?
In short yes we can provide 30 day invoice terms to any UK Limited company with the provision of your official purchase order and/or completing the invoice request for your booking online.
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