CSS Training {Advanced Styling}
Advanced styling with CSS : reserve a place 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.
Price: $895 / £494 UK (exclusive of VAT)
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: November 2008 | view schedule
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