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CSS Online Course from Gatlin International
Take your knowledge to the next level with the CSS online course from Gatlin International.
In our Advanced CSS Layout class, you'll learn how to control float-based layouts, multi-column fixed and fluid designs, grid-based designs, and sophisticated navigation techniques.
Our CSS online course will also expand your knowledge of floats, positioning, source ordering, and frameworks can set you apart as a professional designer and bring greater sophistication to your client projects. The course also explores different strategies for working with Cascading Style Sheets, from tips on writing and formatting your code to creating print styles and working with frameworks.
Gatlin International makes learning easier and more affordable with our anytime, anywhere, online approach to education.
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Outline
LESSON 1 Designing with Floats
Benin your CSS training by exploring the CSS "float" property takes a page element out of normal flow so other content can wrap around it. Sounds simple, but many complex layouts can be created with this technique. Multi-column fixed and fluid layouts are explored in-depth and hands-on, as well as refined navigation techniques, image grids, and techniques for breaking out of the boxy routine. You'll create flowing float layouts in this lesson's exercise, a design for a scuba resort client
LESSON 2 Positioning Elements
The Web Standards movement is beginning to give Web designers what they've always wanted: total control in their CSS layouts. This lesson in your CSS traning explores techniques for getting exactly the look you want on your pages using absolute, fixed, and relative positioning. You'll learn ways to add headers and footers to your layouts, overlap content, and create asymmetric designs. In the exercise, you'll choose a favorite artist and design positioning-based layouts inspired by his or her unique style
LESSON 3 Extending Multi-Column Layouts
The techniques you've learned so far depend heavily on normal flow and the ordering of source code. To extend this, Lesson Three explores source-ordered float layouts that give you better control over your content and future page changes. In addition, you'll learn important methods for writing and structuring CSS code, working with print styles, and implementing time-saving frameworks the professionals use. The final exercise is a mini site that challenges your CSS coding skill and your Web design creativity you'll develop advanced CSS layouts, a print style, and even a framework you can use on your future Web design creations.
Additional Info
- Languages
- English
- Course Length
- 30.00 hours
- Duration of Access
Students enrolled in our CSS training class have access to the class for six months. During this period, questions or assignments may be submitted at any time to the instructor. Each course lesson requires an average of 10 hours of study time.
- Instructor
Our advanced CSS online course is taught by Christopher Schmitt - founder of Heatvision, a small new media publishing and design firm. Christopher is an award-winning Web designer who has been working with the Web since 1993. Christopher earned a Masters in Communication for Interactive and New Communication Technologies while obtaining a graduate certificate in Project Management from FSU's College of Communication. As a sought-after speaker and trainer, Christopher regularly demonstrates the use and benefits of practical standards-based designs. Christopher is the Co-Lead of the Adobe Task Force for the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and author of numerous Web design and digital imaging books, including Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites, and CSS Cookbook. Christopher has also written for New Architect Magazine, A List Apart, Digital Web, and Web Reference.
- Prerequisites/Audience
To take the CSS training course you'll need XHTML and CSS hand coding experience, experience with Web page design and development, and Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks, or equivalent digital imaging program.
- Requirements/Materials Included
Our CSS traning course is designed for adult learners interested in building skills and portfolio for a design career. To take the course, students simply require a computer (PC or Mac), an Internet connection (56 Kbps modem or faster), and any required software. For courses with software requirements, computers must meet software manufacturers' system requirements.
- Certification
1.5 CEU
Sessions College is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Certificate programs are accredited by the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools.
