CSS Training For a Beautiful Web
We're delighted to announce the launch of a series of exciting new CSS courses to be presented by leading CSS and design expert Andy Clarke, author of 'Transcending CSS, The Fine Art of Web Design'
Andy Clarke (Malarkey) is a designer, writer and creative director who is obsessive about design and works with clients to help develop strong brands.
Andy Clarke has been called a lot of things since he started working on the web ten years ago. His ego likes words like ambassador for CSS, industry prophet and inspiring, but actually he is most proud that Jeffrey Zeldman once called him a bastard.
Andy took ten months out of his life to write the best-selling book Transcending CSS: The Fine Art Of Web Design (www.transcendingcss.com), but Andy's passion is amazing web design. He loves making designs for the web, writing about design, and teaching it at workshops and conferences all of the world.
The courses are part of a series that will be developed over the next few months. The first courses are listed below
- Building CSS design on Microformats£494.00
- Advanced styling with CSS£494.00
All prices are exclusive of VAT
Building CSS design on Microformats : book now
Learn how Microformats can help you to quickly and easily integrate your web site content into web-based and desktop applications with little more than finely tuned, meaningful, HTML or XHTML mark-up.
Microformats use today's technologies such HTML or XHTML and they are easy to integrate into your content. Perhaps most importantly of all, they work in all popular web browsers and you need no special software to author them.
In this course you will learn about Microformats in a visual, rather than a technical way through a series of practical examples and exercises. You will learn about their background, how to author them and integrate them into you content. You will learn about the benefits that your visitors will gain from you using Microformats, plus how large organizations such as Yahoo! are already publishing their content using Microformats. Of course, no For A Beautiful Web master-class would be complete without design, so you will also learn how to implement original designs from your Microformat content using CSS.
The course price includes a full set of project XHTML templates and related CSS and graphic files plus
Audience:
This course is aimed at web developers and editors who are publishing content to web sites. You are writing press releases, news items, articles or blog posts and in all of this content there are elements of rich meaning, meaning in contacts, events, reviews and relationships with other people, that you cannot properly describe using XHTML alone. Microformats help you to describe this deeper level of meaning within your mark-up. When you publish your content using these more structured ways, the pay-offs are far more than simply enhancing your geek credentials.
Covers topics such as:
- How Microformats solve common problems
- Origins, definitions and principles of Microformats
- Creative, technical and business benfits
- Modern approach to mark-up from content out
- Elements and attributes in relation to Microformats
- Microformats design patterns
- Link-based Microformats:
- Reviving the rel and rev attributes
- Working with rel-license
- Tagging with rel-tag
- VoteLinks
- Creating relationships with XFN
- Styling of link-based Microformats using CSS
- Contact Information Microformat: hCard:
- Introducing hCard
- Publishing hCard contact information
- Working with tools for creating hCards
- Simple styling of hCards using CSS
- Tools that enable use of hCard information
- Publishers and services using hCard today
- Event Microformat: hCalender:
- Introducing hCalendar
- Publishing simple event information
- Adding contact information
- Working with dates and locations
- Working with tools for creating hCalendar
- Simple styling of hCalendar using CSS
- Tools that enable use of hCalendar information
- Publishers and services using hCalendar today
- Review Microformat: hReview (draft):
- Introducing hReview
- Publishing reviews using hReview
- Adding contact information
- Integrating event information
- Working with tools for creating hReview
- Simple styling of hReview using CSS
- Tools that enable use of hReview information
- Publishers and services using hReview today
- Syndicated Content Microformat: hAtom (draft):
- Introducing hAtom
- Publishing content using hAtom
- Styling of hCalendar using CSS
Price: $895 / £494 UK (exclusive of VAT)
Difficulty: Intermediate
Prerequisites: Basic HTML & XHTML, some CSS experience
Length: 15 hours (5 x 3-hour sessions)
Starts: September 2008 | view schedule
Questions? email us
Advanced styling with CSS : book now
As a web designer or developer professional, do you feel that you have reached your full potential for what is possible using CSS? Do you wish that there were more ways to achieve the striking, the radical and the beautiful?This course, presented by Andy Clarke, one of the most well-known designers working with CSS, will challenge you to think differently about how you create inspired design for the web using meaningful mark-up and CSS.
The course is packed full of visual inspiration, backed up by practical techniques for creating amazing work for the web.
Audience:
If you are a visual designer looking to advance your CSS skills with new techniques and technologies, or a technically minded developer who wants to understand more about working visually, this master-class will take your knowledge of CSS to the limits of what is currently possible and beyond.
This course is not designed for beginners or newcomers to CSS. To get the most of this workshop you will be an intermediate to advanced user of CSS and be familiar with meaningful, accessible mark-up.
Covers topics such as:
- A look at sites that have helped develop CSS
- Explaining progressive enhancement
- What is transcendent CSS?
- Explaining the five principles of transcendent CSS
- What makes transcendent CSS possible now
- Explaining Yahoo's Graded Browser Support
- Content-out mark-up:
- Learning why content-out mark-up is important
- Break with old-fashioned ways of thinking
- Content-out mark-up in practical examples
- Adding precise meaning to using Microformat
- Modern CSS selectors:
- Introducing CSS2.1 and CSS3 selectors
- Uilizing modern selectors in your everyday work
- Attribute selectors
- Attribute sub-string selectors
- Adjacent selectors
- Child selectors
- Pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements
- Creating inspired design with CSS:
- Column layouts and interfaces using floats
- Using relative positioning
- Working with absolute positioning
- Layering with z-index for depth and dimension
- Combining floats and positioning
- Simple steps to better web typography:
- Describing how typefaces tell stories and set tone
- Composing to a vertical typographic rhythm
- Introducing the concept of incremental leading
- Combining serif and sans serif fonts
- Introducing CSS3:
- Introducing CSS3 modules
- Reminding us of the CSS3 selectors module
- Backgrounds and borders module
- Multi-column layout module
- Grid positioning module
- Media Queries module
Price: $895 / £494 UK (exclusive of VAT)
Difficulty: Intermediate to Advanced
Prerequisites: Basic HTML & XHTML, some CSS experience
Length: 15 hours (5 x 3-hour sessions)
Starts: October 2008 | view schedule
Questions? email us