CSS Training Course for Web Design - Introduction - Course Dates
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CSS Training Course for Web Design - Introduction
Weekdays
Mon, Aug 04 2025 to Tue, Aug 05 2025
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
CSS Training Course for Web Design - Introduction
Weekdays
Mon, Nov 03 2025 to Tue, Nov 04 2025
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
CSS training course - Introduction topics covered
The topics covered in this introductory CSS training course are separated into eight modules. These provide course participants with the foundational skills needed to create and format webpages using CSS and HTML. The topics covered include:
CSS Training Course: Overview of course topics
- Fundamentals of CSS
- Advantages of using CSS
- How to write CSS
- Your first CSS-enabled document
Understanding CSS anatomy
- Rules
- Selectors
- Declarations
- Values
- Keywords
- Strings
- Length and measurement
- Number
- Colors
- Including CSS in a document
- Including an embedded style sheet
- Linking to external style sheets
- Doctypes and quirks mode
Understanding CSS Selectors
- Class and ID selectors
- The universal selector
- Descendant selectors
- Pseudo-classes 5
- Dynamic pseudo-classes
Working with CSS: Cascading and inheritance
- The cascade in cascading style sheets (CSS)
- The specificity of a selector
- !important rules
- Inheritance
Styling Text with CSS
- Setting font faces
- Font families
- The font-size property
- Absolute and relative font Sizes
- Length and percentage font sizes
- The font shorthand property
- The font properties
- Line height
- Controlling spacing between letters and words
- Indenting text
- Horizontally aligning text
- Decorating text
- Transforming CASE
- Controlling white space
Styling backgrounds using CSS
- Background colors
- Background images
- Controlling position
- Using the center keyword
- Fixing a background image in place
- Background shorthand
Using CSS to position content
- Margins
- Margins with multiple values
- Margin collapsing
- Horizontally aligning elements
- Border styles
- Border shorthand properties
- Padding
- Setting dimensions
- Percentage measurements
- Minimum and maximum dimensions
- Overflowing content
- Floating content
- Floating box model
- Canceling floated content
- Vertically aligning content
- Subscript and superscript text
- The top, middle, and bottom keywords
- Percentage and length value
- Vertically aligning table content
- Absolute, relative, and fixed positioning
- The z-axis and the z-index Property
Creating complete layouts with CSS and HTML
- Creating the page with HTML
- Styling text and custom fonts
- Building the layout
- Gradient backgrounds
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.
Web design course instructors
AGI instructors are Web design professionals and skilled teachers. You'll learn from a live Web design professional that brings years of experience that will help you learn Web design quickly and easily.

Jennifer
MS, Human Factors Information Design
BA, Commercial Art
UXQB Certfied
Adjunct Professor, Boston University

Grace
MS, Information Design
BA, Digital Communications
Adjunct Professor, St. Olaf

Greg
BA, Advertising Design
Adobe Certified Instructor
Author, multiple Adobe Creative Cloud books
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.
No previous experience with CSS or HTML is required. This is an introductory CSS course.
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.