Adobe Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Adobe Cascading Style Sheets: Design, develop, and maintain standards-based websites and applications

Design, develop, and maintain websites and web applications—from start to finish—with Adobe¨ Dreamweaver¨ CS3 software. Built for designers and developers, Dreamweaver CS3 offers both a visual layout interface and a streamlined coding environment. Intelligent integration with related Adobe software ensures an efficient workflow across your favorite tools.

This 2-day training course is designed to introduce web developers to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) training course which is not only the smarter more powerful way of controlling the appearance of web pages but it is also a key technology in ensuring web sites remain accessible whilst implementing particular designs. CSS also helps to make web sites quicker to browse, easier to maintain and more open to new devices such as mobile phones and PDAs. 
 
The course will teach you how to put a website together implementing the design through CSS styling and layout techniques and is very much ‘hands-on’ and whilst it does cover basic CSS theory, delegates will spend a lot of time learing by doing - applying CSS to create fundamental and advanced designs and layouts with discussions throughout on various technical issues such as ‘doctype’, validation and specificity. Throughout, delegates will be using Dreamweaver as the HTML and CSS editor and the course also aims to teach the delegates how to make best use of Dreamweaver’s powerful CSS features.

Day 1 focuses on CSS theory and fundamentals by applying CSS to a simple web page so the causes and effects are easier to see and understand. Day 2 focuses on applying CSS to more ‘real world’, complex pages to learn the real power of CSS. By the end of the course, delegates will be hand-coding CSS! Eric Meyer’s excellent book ‘More Eric Meyer on CSS’ is used as a workbook on the course. Each delegate will receive a copy of this book which they can refer back to and also use to further expand their understanding through tackling other design problems.

This CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) training course is an absolute must for any web developer.

The course is designed for practicing web designers with limited or no knowledge of CSS. Delegates will use Dreamweaver CS3 throughout the course as the HTML and CSS editor. As such, delegates should be competent with using Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver CS3 will be used on the course but experience with Dreamweaver 8 or Dreamweaver MX 2004 will be sufficient. Those who have completed the normal Dreamweaver course are ideally suited. A very basic understanding of HTML will be helpful but is not essential.

This 2-day Adobe CSS training course covers the following areas:

Unit 1: Overview of CSS
- Content vs presentation.
- Implementing CSS - inline, internal and external styling.
- The benefits of using CSS - file size, features, maintainability, accessibility, devices.
- Standards – XHTML vs HTML, Doctypes.

Unit 2: CSS Theory through Fundamental Application
- Content and the document tree
- CSS rules - selectors and declarations, properties and values
- Selectors – tag, class, id, group, pseudo-class, pseudo-elements and advanced
- CSS features - typography, layout, etc
- Attaching CSS style sheets - link, @import
- Shorthand notation – font, background, margin, padding, border, TRBL
- Cascading, inheritance and specificity
- The CSS box model
- Inline and block elements
- CSS layout – relative and absolute positioning, floating and clearing floats
- Browsers and CSS

Unit 3: Applying CSS to create Advanced Designs and Layouts
- Most of day 2 is spent practicing using CSS in more typical situations using projects from Eric Meyer’s book. We aim to cover some particular projects but other projects can be explored if the class is in mutual agreement.

Complex Design and Layout
- Taking plain HTML content and imposing an impressive design and layout from scratch by hand-coding the CSS. En route, we resolve various ‘problems’ that arise through some of the subtleties of CSS and learn several layout techniques.

Menu Systems
- Creating list-based menus with CSS – no tables!
- Crafting attractive tab-based menus

Styling for Screen & Print
- Creating style sheets that affect screen and print differently.

Other Projects for Consideration
- Creating CSS driven drop-down menus, intricate background image work and styling photo galleries.

Two Training options are available:

1. Open Courses - where you come to us: Our authorised Adobe CSS courses are run from our training centres in Leamington Spa, Leeds and London.

2. On-site Training - where we come to you: A Symbiosis trainer will deliver our Adobe CSS course at a venue of your choice using either your computers or our own.

The cost for this 2-day Adobe CSS training course is: £495 + VAT per delegate and includes lunch and refreshments.

Symbiosis: authorised Adobe and Apple training courses

Since 1996 Symbiosis have been delivering authorised Adobe and Apple training courses  in the Midlands, Leeds and London areas.  

At Symbiosis the training is based on a wealth of ‘real-world’ experience and our aim is to provide appropriate, professional training in the use of the leading creative software packages - whether for print, interactive media, the web, video or mobile applications. Whether you are an individual or a company, Symbiosis's authorised status guarantees the quality of their training facilities and ensures you have access to qualified trainers, new computers, legal software, approved training materials and the provision of snacks and drinks.

Our aim - to provide great training at a competitive price from central locations, in the following areas:

            • Adobe Authorised Training Centre
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            • Quark Alliance Partner
            • Skillset Approved

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Whatever kind of training you are looking to achieve we can help you find your way, our accredited status can provide in-house team training to help you improve your working practice. We take pride in our authorised status and prior to accepting a booking, we take the time to check that a course is appropriate to your skill level and requirements.

Our commitment to quality means that we guarantee the following:

• Authorised Courses are limited to a maximum of 8 delegates
• All training is delivered by authorised instructors 
• All training is delivered using the most recent version of the software available (unless stated)
• Training is available on the Mac or PC platform
• Prices include a copy of the authorised training manual (and supporting CD/DVD if included)

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