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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for Web Page Development: Hands-On

 
Course: 522   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Develop fast, efficient, accessible and attractive Web pages using CSS and HTML
  • Generate tableless page layouts with pure CSS
  • Build pages that are optimized for search engines
  • Apply best practices to develop cross-browser compatible Web pages and avoid pitfalls
  • Implement menu designs for effective site navigation
  • Create Web sites that meet Section 508 and W3C accessibility standards

Course Benefits

Organizations are under increasing pressure to produce sophisticated, attractive and contemporary Web sites that work on a variety of browsers and are optimized for search engines. In this course, you design and rapidly develop cross-platform Web pages using CSS and HTML. You also learn how to create effective site navigation, optimize pages for layout and printing, and design pages that meet the most stringent compliance regulations.

Who Should Attend

Those involved in establishing, designing, developing and maintaining Web sites. Experience with HTML at the level of Course 470, "Developing a Web Site," is required.

Hands-On Training

This course provides you with the skills to design and develop effective, accessible and exciting Web pages. Exercises include:
  • Constructing vertical & horizontal menus using lists
  • Creating non-JavaScript rollover effects
  • Developing CSS that work with different browsers
  • Building site navigation with different menu designs
  • Incorporating background images in page designs
  • Optimizing document layout for usability & accessibility
  • Positioning and floating page content
  • Designing absolute positioning of page elements

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Upcoming Dates

Oct 15 - 17, 2008
 Ottawa
Nov 5 - 7, 2008
 Toronto
Nov 12 - 14, 2008
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Dec 10 - 12, 2008
 Los Angeles
Jan 7 - 9, 2009
 New York
Feb 4 - 6, 2009
 Ottawa
Feb 4 - 6, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Mar 4 - 6, 2009
 N. New Jersey
Mar 4 - 6, 2009
 Toronto
Apr 22 - 24, 2009
 Los Angeles
Apr 29 - May 1, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
May 6 - 8, 2009
 New York
Jun 17 - 19, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Jul 15 - 17, 2009
 Toronto
Aug 5 - 7, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for Web Page Development: Hands-On

 
Course: 522   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course 522 Content
 

Employing CSS

  • Development cycle
  • Benefits of CSS
  • CSS vs. HTML styling
  • Enhancing the visitor experience
  • CSS standards
  • Accessibility guidelines

Applying CSS Fundamentals

CSS formatting conventions

  • Defining CSS structure
  • Units of measure
  • Fixed vs. relative sizing
  • Employing font and color properties
  • Abbreviating and simplifying style sheets with shorthand styles

Choosing and applying styles

  • Class vs. ID attributes
  • Incorporating DIV and SPAN tags
  • Comparing inline and block styling

Integrating style sheets

  • External and embedded style sheets
  • Importing vs. linking to external style sheets
  • Working with the CSS cascade

The CSS box model

  • Grouping and styling content
  • Implementing margins, borders and padding
  • Enriching site design with backgrounds and images
  • Managing collapsed margins

Manipulating the Style Sheet

Directing browser behavior

  • The importance of the !DOCTYPE directive
  • Choosing document standards
  • Switching between quirks and standards compliant modes

Deriving and overriding styles

  • Inheritance and style behavior
  • Assigning styles and applying rules
  • Working with specificity

Structuring Page Layout

Managing page elements with CSS

  • Building layout pages using pure CSS tableless techniques
  • Floating
  • Absolute vs. relative positioning

Effectively organizing content

  • Optimizing page layout for accessibility, search engines and portable devices
  • Producing rollover effects
  • Implementing linear layout

Implementing Cross-Browser Techniques

Incorporating best practices

  • Building pages to display a variety of platforms
  • Designing for PDAs and mobile phone browsers
  • Producing printable content without creating additional printer-friendly pages
  • Styling for optimal print formatting

Cross-browser workarounds

  • Targeting specific browsers
  • Developing pages that work with quirky browsers and broken boxes

Employing Effective Navigation

Organizing Web site information

  • Comparing menu techniques for optimal site usability
  • Pinpointing visitor location in site structure with crumbtrails
  • Creating search-friendly menus using lists

Constructing menus

  • Implementing easily maintained tableless menus using HTML lists
  • Designing accessible and attractive horizontal, vertical and tabbed menus
  • Applying rollover techniques to menus

Styling Forms and Tables for Accessibility

Formatting tabular data

  • Effective table design techniques
  • Employing CSS to attractively style tables
  • Applying accessibility techniques to table design

Form aesthetics to meet standards

  • Creating effective and accessible forms that work with diverse browsers
  • Applying style sheet properties to forms
 
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for Web Page Development: Hands-On Tuition

 
Course: 522   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,390 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,350 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,700 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,155 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,124 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

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