CSS Training Course for Web Design - Advanced

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.