training:Courses:CSS
Private HTML / CSS Training Courses in London, UK
Provide yourself or your team with the best training with a bespoke, private HTML / CSS course, focused on your exact requirements
UNIQUE BENEFITS OF PRIVATE TRAINING
- Customise the course to cover the right topics to suit your needs
- Individual attention allowing you to learn at your own pace
- Work exclusively on your own Website
- Freedom to stop and ask as many questions as necessary
- No-one is held back or overshadowed by a larger group
- No external participants mean 100% focus on your business requirements
- Focus and relevance means cost-efficient training time
- Flexibility on timing, group size and location gives added convenience
INTRODUCTION TO HTML / CSS - COURSE SUMMARY
A one-day, private course designed to equip you with the knowledge and confidence needed to build your own HTML / CSS Template successfully
- CSS Introduction
- Syntax Basics
- Basic Selectors and Properties
- Linking and Embedding
- More Text Properties
- Background Properties
- Class & Pseudo Class Selectors
- Page Layout
- Links with Class
- A Navigation Bar
- Importing Style Sheets
- Real World CSS
Plus fantastic, exclusive FREE offers for every participant:
- FREE HTML CSS book
- FREE unlimited telephone and e-mail support
ABOUT ME
I have over 17 years of web design and coding experience. My clients range from large blue chip companies to start-ups and individuals. Past clients include the BBC, Lloyds of London and the Ministry of Defence. You can see more here. I have experience in search engine optimisation, internet marketing and landing page optimisation to improve conversions and sales. All the new sites I build are HTML5, CSS3 and are back compatible, you can see them here.CONVENIENT LOCATION
My flexible approach means your private training can be held at the most convenient location for you. I will be happy to come to your offices or home or if you want to get away from any distractions, We can meet in central london. If the location is a problem or if you are outside of the uk then we can do training over the internet with screen sharing and the session can be recoreded.Duration: 1 day.
Prerequisites: To take this course you should have either taken the
Intro to the internet HTML training course' or have the equivalent experience
CSS layout (Cascading Style Sheets) is a means of separating the content of a document from the style and layout of that document, making the HTML far cleaner. This is useful for a number of reasons: firstly, you can change the layout of the whole CSS website by altering only one file (the .css document) and you have a much greater control over the design. Secondly, CSS websites are also far more search engine friendly and thirdly, you can make different CSS versions of the same page for different HTML readers. i.e. PDA's, Mobile phones, tablets, Web TV, Braille readers. The course explores all of these advantages.
CSS will enable you to separate style from content in order to make life very easy for visitors who prefer to only view content on a page. Such versatility means that blind or partially sighted people, who use a screen reader to interpret a page, could be able to use your CSS sites with ease.
Layout and positioning of navigation elements can also be completely consistent across a site - something that was previously possible only using frames.
In addition to this course, we also offer two other training courses utilizing Dreamweaver: Our HTML Training Course makes for a great starter in the art of understanding and coding clean HTML. Our Complete Dreamweaver Training Course neatly combines the HTML and CSS courses together.
COURSE CONTENT
CSS Introduction
- What are style sheets?
- What is CSS?
- Where does CSS come from?
- What does CSS do?
- The legacy of HTML
- CSS Productivity advantages
- CSS Site management advantages
- CSS Accessibility advantages
- CSS problems and shortcomings
Syntax Basics
- How style sheets work
- Anatomy of style sheets - statements, selectors, properties and values
- Working with diffrent browser sizes, desktop, tablet and mobile
Basic Selectors and Properties
- XHTML / HTML element selectors
- Basic text properties
- Inheritance
- Whitespace in CSS code
Linking and Embedding
- Linking documents to style sheets
- Embedding documents in style sheets
- Which is better, linking or embedding?
More Text Properties
- More CSS text and font properties - text-decoration, font-style, font-weight
- Background properties
- Colour values in CSS
- Group selectors
- Case sensitivity in CSS
Background Properties
- Background properties
- Colour in CSS
- The colour property
- Group selectors
Class & Pseudo Class Selectors
- Background properties
- Colour in CSS
- The colour property
- Group selectors
Page Layout
- The use of whitespace
- Margins
- Padding
- Text alignment and centring objects
- Borders
- Text indentation
Links with Class
- Combining link and class selectors
A Navigation Bar
- Cascading
- Descendant selectors
Importing Style Sheets
- importing style sheets
- using importing to manage large web sites
Real World CSS
- Validating HTML and CSS
- Design for adaptability and accessibility
- Real world issues for commonly used properties
- Browser compatibility. Making style sheets work today
Just what I needed - to build on self-taught css. Will be able to re-visit my work sites and apply much of the proper techniques.
Active Solutions Europe Ltd
Made me aware of how powerful CSS is & start thinking about how school websites can be set up entirely using CSS.
Hertfordshire County Council