Style Sheets, better known as CSS, is a way take your plain HTML page to the next level and do things you cannot do with straight HTML. Utilizing CSS to style your site opens a new world of creativity for you and a more pleasant experience for your visitor.

This class is designed for someone with no CSS experience or knowledge and will take you through the basics and into some of the fun things that you can do when you use it. You will learn how to add color, round corners of objects like boxes, position elements just about anywhere on a page and a lot more.

You will leave the course with a good understanding and foundation in CSS allowing you to move into the more complex CSS3.

Applicable Job Roles: web designers, webmasters, web programmers, and web developers and mobile application developers.

• Understand the basics of CSS
  • syntax
  • selectors
  • precedence
• Acquire the free tools to make your life with CSS easier and how to use them
• Understand the difference between external, embedded, and inline styles
• Learn how to attach a stylesheet

• Know how to create a CSS box model
• Set properties
  • Width, height, overflow, padding, margin
• Set and work with borders and their properties
• Use descendant selectors effectively

• Understand the differences between static, relative and fixed positions
• Float elements
• Z-index layering

• Understand how to set visibility
• Understand 'overflow', what it is and how to handle it
• Set background attributes such as color, image, position
• Set font and text properties
• Adjust line height

• Use CSS to style a list
• Use CSS to style hyperlinks
• Use CSS to style navigation bars

• Know how to setting table attributes
• Add color to form fields
• Use the nth-child selector
• Align text within a table