·2-hour demonstration only
·Limited to 16
·Registration required

Description

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the technology used to separate web page content from page style. Increased ease of site maintenance is the big benefit of CSS. Imagine being able to redesign your text and heading styles on an entire web site without having to edit a single HTML file -- it's possible with CSS. A web site using extensive CSS is not only easier to maintain, but pages are lean, resulting in faster page loads. Clean structural code styled with CSS is also more accessible, both now and into the future. In this class, you will learn how to style and enliven your content using CSS. You will learn extended basics (styling lists, styling table elements, transforming text, etc.) as well as some advanced CSS techniques like using pull quotes, adding inline photos with captions, highlighting features in a sidebar, and identifying and styling unique page components.

Benefits

After completing this class, you will be able to:

1. Create a central stylesheet file to store your style definitions for use on all pages on your site.
2. Style text, style headings, and transform text.
3. Say goodbye to spacer graphics by using CSS for margins and padding.
4. Style tables and data with CSS.
5. Identify specific page elements for unique styles.
6. Use CSS to insert inline photos with captions.
7. Use CSS to insert pullquotes and feature sidebars.
8. Hide content that is important to the structural markup of the page but is not needed/used in the page design.

Prerequisites

HTML: Intermediate (or equivalent knowledge). An account on people.bu.edu, or access to a site on www.bu.edu, is recommended.

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