CSS & XHTML for Web Development

CSS & XHTML for Web Development

Overview

With Total Training for CSS & XHTML Web Development you’ll learn the process of building a structure for your web pages and then styling those web pages so that they look polished and professional, in the style and design you format.

Learning with Study 365 has many advantages. The course material is delivered straight to you and can be adapted to fit in with your lifestyle. It is created by experts within the industry, meaning you are receiving accurate information, which is up-to-date and easy to understand.

This course is comprised of professional learning material, all delivered through a system that you will have access to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 365 days (12 months).

COURSE CURRICULUM
Free Introduction
1: INTRODUCTION TO BUILDING A WEB PAGE
1. What is HTML?
2. Setting Up the Text Editor to Create XHTML
3. Creating Your First HTML File
4. Adding Formatting Tags & Previewing in a Browser
5. Getting Started with Cascading Style Sheets
6. How Pages are Served Up
7. Choosing an Editor
8. Project Management
2: CREATING HTML DOCUMENTS
1. Understanding Tags, Elements & Attributes
2. Defining the Basic Structure with HTML, HEAD & BODY
3. Assigning a Title & Using Paragraphs
4. Using Heading Tags & Whitespace
5. Creating Unordered & Ordered Lists
6. Fine-tuning Tags with Attributes
7. Adding Bold & Italics
8. Understanding How a Browser Reads HTML
9. Doc Types & Browsers
3: INTRODUCTION TO CSS
1. What is CSS?
2. Internal Style Sheets, Selectors, Properties & Values
3. Building & Applying Class Selectors
4. Grouping Selectors
5. Creating Comments in Your Code
6. Using Div Tags & IDs to Format Layout
7. Understanding the Cascade & Avoiding Conflicts
4: ADDING IMAGES
1. Image Formats & Production Considerations
2. Optimizing Images for the Web
3. Introducing the IMG Tag
4. Relative vs. Absolute URLs
5. Fine-Tuning with Alt, Width & Height Attributes
5: ANCHORS & HYPERLINKS
1. Creating Hyperlinks to Outside Websites
2. Creating Hyperlinks Between Documents
3. Linking to Email Addresses
4. Linking to a Specific Part of a Webpage
5. Linking Images
6: MORE CSS TECHNIQUES
1. Managing CSS with External Style Sheets
2. Setting Hyperlinks with Pseudo-Classes
3. The CSS Box Model: Padding, Borders & Margins
4. Styling Unordered & Ordered Lists with CSS
5. Overriding the Inheritance of Attributes
7: ORGANIZING INFORMATION WITH TABLES & DEFINITION LISTS
1. Creating Tables & Table Attributes
2. Adding & Formatting Rows & Columns
3. Spanning Rows & Columns
4. Increasing Table Accessibility
5. Using Definition Lists to Organize Definition-Based Data
6. Using HTML Comments
8: CREATING LAYOUTS
1. Adding a Side Content Div to Your Layout
2. Applying Absolute Positioning
3. Applying Relative Positioning
4. Using the Float & Clear Properties
5. Understanding Overflow
6. Creating Auto-Centering Content
7. Using Fixed Positioning
9: INTRODUCTION TO ADOBE� DREAMWEAVER�
1. Getting Started with Dreamweaver & Setting Preferences
2. Creating a Local Site & Importing Files
3. Working in the Code, Design, & Split Views
4. Configuring FTP Options & Publishing Through Synchronization
5. Validating Your Code
10: WORKING WITH DREAMWEAVER
1. Editing Style Sheets in the CSS Panel
2. Creating Description & Keyword Meta Tags
3. Using Dreamweaver to Preview in a Web Browser
4. Credits

Who is it for?

• Job seekers
• Graduates
• Students
• Aspiring web developers
• Aspiring web designers
• App developers

Course Duration:

From the day you purchase the course, you will have 12 months access to the online study platform. As the course is self-paced you can decide how fast or slow the training goes, and are able to complete the course in stages, revisiting the training at any time. revisiting the training at any time.

Method of Assessment:

At the end of the course, you will have one assignment to be submitted (you need a mark of 65% to pass) and you can submit the assignment at any time. You will only need to pay £19 for assessment and certification when you submit the assignment. You will receive the results within 72 hours of submittal, and will be sent a certificate in 7-14 days if you have successfully passed.

Certification:

Successful candidates will be awarded a certificate for CSS & XHTML for Web Development.

Presenter Information:

Ed Burke is a Boston-based designer and an Adobe Certified Expert. Ed has been designing and developing websites and print collateral for 14 years and has a BA in Information Systems and an Advanced Certificate in Human Computer Interaction; combined with his graphic design skills and foundation in painting, Ed bridges the gap between design and technology. Ed’s skills include Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, BBEdit, HTML/XHTML, CSS, Flash and InDesign. Ed has a background in graphic design, website design and development, direct marketing, software instruction, and runs his own design business, Very Groovy, Inc.