Web Authoring: HTML - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for Beginners (Level 2)

Prerequisites

This is a practical-based course for anyone with a basic understanding of HTML. The course will introduce Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and show how they can (and should) be used effectively when creating web pages. The course teaches how to write CSS from scratch using a basic Text Editor. By the end of the course participants will have adapted a small website consisting of three pages so that it is styled using a single Cascading Style Sheet. Course participants will have the opportunity to publish these using DS-Web.

• All current University members (departments and colleges)
• Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available

Familiarity with writing basic HTML as covered in the following course:

• Web Authoring: HTML For Beginners (Level 1)

Number of sessions: 1

• How CSS works (inline, internal and externally linked)
• The structure of CSS (selectors, properties and values)
• Annotating CSS
• Text (size and font)
• Color (text and background color)
• Borders, margins and padding (thinking about HTML as “boxes”)
• Class and ID Selectors
• Background images and textures
• Nesting and grouping
• Page layout
• Uploading your personal web pages to DS-Web

Presentation followed by practical work

Notepad ++, Internet Explorer and Firefox on MCS Windows

• The practical work will be done on PCs unless otherwise specified, although the course is platform independent and therefore suitable also for Mac and Linux users.
• If you would like to take away a copy of the Web page you create, please bring a USB memory stick. If you can logon to your MCS account, you will have an opportunity to set up your Web pages using DS-Web on that account.

One half day session

• Web Authoring: HTML - For Beginners (Level 1)
• Web Authoring: HTML - Advanced Topics & Photo Optimisation (Level 3)
• Web Authoring: Java Script for Beginners (Level 3)
• Web Authoring: Dreamweaver CC Introduction