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CSS training course for web design - Advanced
CSS Advanced
In this advanced CSS training course, you learn sophisticated techniques for using Cascading Style Sheets to apply visual formatting to your HTML web pages and designs. This course provides skills to add style to links, lists, and nav bars and apply advanced formatting. Learn to apply styles to forms and tables and to manage CSS for use in multiple pages. This course is for users with previous CSS and knowledge of all the introductory CSS course topics.
What you learn in this advanced live CSS course
- Structure and manage CSS successfully
- Apply visual formatting to pages
- Change background color and image properties
- Style links, lists and tables effectively
- Format forms and tables for data display
- Control page layout with advanced CSS
Why learn Web design at AGI
- Hands-on learning: Learn Web design by doing, using our proven method to gain skills quickly.
- Proven curriculum: We have delivered Web design training to thousands.
- Our expert instructors are skilled educators and the best in class with Web design.
- Small class sizes: receive personalized attention with ten or fewer participants per class.
- Repeat for free: If you need a refresher or miss a class day, retake the class at no cost.
- Learn using proven methods: We have been teaching Web design courses for 20 years
Options for attending this Web design Course
- Live Online classes from your office or home as a regularly scheduled small group class.
- Live, in-person regularly scheduled Web design classes in Boston or Philadelphia with a live instructor in the same classroom.
- Private training customized to your specific needs delivered in-person or online. Call 781-376-6044 or complete the Private Web Design Training form for more information.
- Corporate Web design Training for your group or team.
CSS training course for web design - Advanced - Course Dates
All classes are led by a live instructor. Class times listed are Eastern time.
CSS training course for web design - Advanced
Weekdays
Wed, Oct 23 2024 to Thu, Oct 24 2024
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
CSS training course for web design - Advanced
Weekdays
Wed, Dec 18 2024 to Thu, Dec 19 2024
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
CSS course - Advanced topics covered
The topics covered in this advanced CSS training course are separated into eight modules. These provide course participants with advanced CSS training, providing skills needed to apply advanced formats with CSS and CSS3. The topics covered include:
Lesson 1: Structuring CSS code
- IDs and class names
- Naming your elements
- IDs or classes?
- Divs and spans
- Microformats
- Different versions of HTML and CSS
- Document types and browser modes
- Validation
Lesson 2: Managing CSS styles
- Common selectors
- Pseudo-classes
- The universal selector
- Advanced selectors
- Child and adjacent sibling selectors
- Attribute selectors
- The cascade and specificity
- Specificity
- Using specificity in your style sheets
- Adding a class or an ID to the body tag
- Inheritance
- Planning and maintaining your styles
- Applying styles to your document
- Removing comments and optimizing
- Style guides
Lesson 3: Visual formatting using CSS
- Box model review
- IE and the box model
- Margin collapsing
- Positioning review
- The visual formatting model
- Relative positioning
- Absolute positioning
- Fixed positioning
- Floating
- Line boxes and clearing
Lesson 4: Using CSS backgrounds
- Background image basics
- Rounded-corner boxes
- Fixed-width rounded-corner boxes
- Flexible rounded-corner box
- Multiple background images
- border-radius
- border-image
- Easy CSS drop shadows
- Box-shadow
- Opacity
- CSS opacity
- RGBa
- PNG transparency
Lesson 5: Adding style to links
- Simple link styling
- Fun with underlines
- Simple link embellishments
- Fancy link underlines
- Visited-link styles
- Styling link targets
- Highlighting different types of links
- Highlighting downloadable documents
- Creating links that look like buttons
- Simple rollovers
- Rollovers with images
- Pixy-style rollovers
- CSS sprites
- Rollovers with CSS 3
- Pure CSS tooltips
Lesson 6: Using CSS to style lists and nav bars
- Basic list styling
- Creating a basic vertical nav bar
- Highlighting the current page in a nav
- Creating a simple horizontal nav bar
- Creating a graphical nav bar
- Sliding door tabbed navigation
- CSS image maps
- Flickr-style image maps
- Remote rollovers
- Definition lists
Lesson 7: Styling forms and tables with CSS
- Styling data tables
- Table-specific elements
- Summary and caption
- Data table markup
- Styling the table
- Adding the visual style
- Simple form layout
- Useful form elements
- Form labels
- Embellishments
- Required fields
- Accessible date input
- Multicolumn checkboxes
- Submit buttons
- Form feedback
Lesson 8: Using CSS to create a page layout
- Planning your layout
- Setting the foundations
- Centering a design using margins
- Float-based layouts
- Two-column floated layout
- Three-column floated layout
- Fixed-width, liquid, and elastic layout
- Liquid layouts
- Elastic layouts
- Liquid and elastic images
- Faux columns
- Equal-height columns
- CSS frameworks vs. CSS Systems
The course topics serve as an outline for the course. Instructors may adjust content based on the specific needs of each class, such as to answer your Web design questions.
Custom and private Web design classes
This Web design course is available as a private class. Curriculum can be customized for your specific needs. Web design classes can be delivered at your location, online, or in our classrooms. For more information, call 781-376-6044 to speak with a training consultant or contact us.
Previous experience writing CSS and HTML is required along with an understanding of all topics covered in the introductory CSS course before enrolling in this advanced CSS training.
Exceptional Web design course materials
Our proprietary curriculum has been proven effective in teaching [category short name] to thousands. You’ll receive our extensive written reference along with lesson files for you to continue your practice following the class. This Web design course includes a copy of our Digital Classroom book with many projects and exercises.
Repeat for free
If you need a refresher or miss a day of class, you can repeat the Web design class at no additional cost for one year.
Web design FAQ
Do I receive a Web design certificate?
AGI provides a certificate upon course completion, which can be shared on LinkedIn and verified digitally on the AGI website.
How many students are in a Web design class?
AGI limits its class sizes so that you receive personalized attention. Classes are limited to no more than 10 participants.
Can I get specific Web design questions answered in the class?
Yes, as a live class, you can ask the instructor questions about how you will be using Web design.
Does this Web design class include job placement support?
AGI provides job support only when Web design classes are taken as part of a longer-term certificate program, where AGI has a dedicated career counselor assigned to each certificate student.
Is this Web design class for Mac or Windows?
You can attend this Web design class using a Mac or Windows computer. The application itself has identical functionality for both. If attending in our classrooms, a computer will be provided using the operating system of your choice.