CSS: Introduction

Delivery method
Classroom based, maximum 5 delegates

Course description
[/b][b]DAY ONE
Standards compliant mark up[/b]
• HTML, XHTML and XML
• Converting and moving to XHTML
• Browser issues and standards compliance

[b]Clean, structured pages[/b]
• CSS terminology and syntax
• XHTML syntax, options and versions
• Structuring XHTML pages
• Removing presentational elements
• Working with the DOCTYPE
• Understanding natural language declarations

[b]Structuring content[/b]
• Headings and sub headings
• Creating paragraphs
• Working with special characters
• Creating line breaks
• Creating horizontal rules
• Numbered (ordered) lists
• Unnumbered (unordered) lists
• Creating a basic input form

[b]Introduction to CSS[/b]
• Separating content from presentation
• The difference between CSS and Mark up
• What can CSS do?
• CSS structure (syntax)
• Inserting styles (inline, embedded or external)
• The cascade order
• Using Class, Span and ID
• Understanding selectors, properties, values and declarations
• Selector types

Suitable for
A course for those who need to gain an understanding of current web design techniques separating presentation from mark-up through cascading style sheets (CSS).

Requirements
You should have attended the Introduction to HTML course at Media Training or have an equivalent working knowledge.