Website Design Using Cascading Stylesheet Standards CSS

GBdirect Ltd
London,Leeds,Birmingham,Coventry,Edinburgh,Glasgow, United Kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' This introductory CSS training course covers the fundamentals of CSS web design through a combination of expert instruction and hands-on exercises. The course teaches delegates to deliver identical and visually appealing web content to users of different browsers, applications, platforms, and devices, using Cascading Stylesheets (CSS).

On completion of this basic CSS training course delegates should fully understand and be able to apply the core CSS (CSS1, CSS2 and CSS2.1) which is implemented in all modern web browsers. That understanding and the CSS best practice encouraged throughout the course, should enable delegates to go on to become accomplished CSS users through self-directed study and practice.

Background to CSS Training
In the beginning web users were roughly equal. Users could access all sorts of embedded data (texts, sounds, images, etc) simply by requesting files written in a standard format (HTML ¨C the Hypertext Mark-up Language). How users viewed or processed those files was entirely up to them.

Unfortunately, a combination of design flaws in HTML itself (no clear separation between the content, structure and presentation of data) and the Netcape/Microsoft strategy of ¡®extending¡¯ HTML to include features which only worked with their web browser soon created a Babel-like mess in which neither web designers nor web users could guarantee a common web experience, or even interoperability.

Microsoft’s monopoly has barely simplified matters. Users still find that sites don’t work with their particular version of a browser, with their particular JavaScript interpreter, Java virtual machine (JVM), streaming media player, or other plugin. Even when a site basically ¡®works¡¯, users often experience only part of what the designers intended, or a distorted version of it.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) developed Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) as a pragmatic way of addressing the most obvious incompatibility problem: the inability of web designers to create attractive, visual and multimedia effects without using proprietary techniques which locked them and their users into one company¡¯s products.

With Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) it is possible to design web pages in which structured data is almost entirely separated from instructions about how to present it in a browser, on a speaker, on a PDA, etc. By putting the presentational instructions in a separate Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), web designers can ensure that no user loses an important part of the data on a web page, merely because they are using a different kind of software or device.

Although Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) are conceptually simple, browser vendors have made them more difficult to implement than they ought to be; by failing to support significant parts of the standards (CSS1, CSS2 and CSS2.1) or by implementing them wrongly. Despite such obstacles, judiciously applied style sheets can ensure portable cross-platform web site design.

This introductory CSS course is written and delivered by experienced e-commerce web developers whose commitment to web standards has required them to find practical and affordable ways around these obstacles.

Intended Audience For This CSS Course
Web site designers and web site developers with a good basic knowledge of HTML.
Communications, marketing and design professionals who have learnt some basic HTML, but want to produce more accessible web site design using Cascading Stylesheets.
CSS Course Prerequisites
A good basic understanding of HTML and/or XHTML
A minimum of creative/aesthetic ambition ¨C actual talent is not obligatory
Willingness to unlearn the conventional bad practice of HTML-formatting
No fear of hand coding ¨C or at least a willingness to try it
CSS Course Delivery
To an even greater extent than normal, this Cascading Stylesheet training course is delivered through hands-on exercises, backed up by expert tuition in fundamental principles and best coding practice.

Whenever possible, students use hand coding HTML and CSS to learn the fundamentals which underpin the style sheet editors in products like Dreamweaver, GoLive and FrontPage.

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Phone:0800 651 0338, +44 (0)870 200 7273

School Address:

GBdirect Ltd
Training Division
Leeds Innovation Centre
103 Clarendon Road
LEEDS
LS2 9DF
West Yorkshire
United Kingdom


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