Create eye-catching page layouts using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and layer tags. Create stylish layouts by combining text, graphics and object positioning.
Set up a professional looking page structure using HTML and CSS.
Create web pages that are more productive when used by search engines. Write a separate CSS file for handheld devices to called up instead of your normal file. Avoid having to create a printer friendly version of your pages using separate CSS file when user chooses to print the web page.
Learn to control font size, font color, link color and many other attributes on your web pages using CSS.
Using CSS will allow you to change the look of your site within minutes, regardless of the number of pages. This is possible because your formatting attributes are in an external file that you can edit and changes all pages at once.
This course will teach you how to:
- Identify resources for information about CSS formatting and examples of web sites that use CSS for layout
- Apply a style class
- Apply an ID style
- Create an external style files that links to your web pages
Make your HTML code much more readable and the page sizes smaller using CSS. This will make your pages load much faster for your viewers.
Format text and font to create appealing web pages by:
- Using color property to define the color of text
- Applying display formatting to text.
- Using font attributes to format text.
- Applying formatting to list-items with the list-style property
- Using text properties to format their text
Apply backgrounds, boxes and borders to pages using:
Position objects on web pages using CSS:
- Float and Clear properties to control how text flows on a page
- Position, top and left properties to position objects on a page
Create your own custom web page in this class.
Prerequisites
A basic understanding of HTML is needed.
Requirements
Students will need a text editor or other tool for creating web pages and a browser.