CSS: Techniques, Tips and Tactics Create the site you really want, using techniques you really understand
The current generation of web browsers offer greater potential for delivering creative, engaging web content and CSS provides you with a huge range of techniques with which to exploit this. Yet learning how and when to use CSS creatively with your own content is often a challenging prospect.
How many times have you looked at a web page and thought, "How did they do that?" or perhaps, "I'm sure I could do that, but I don't know where to start"? Have you ploughed through a multitude of online examples and still struggled to see how they apply to your design?
This new workshop will consider a range of common CSS-based web site design ideas and the concepts that underpin them. You will explore several practical, CSS techniques that can be easily employed on your site and also consider a simple planning process to help you work creatively and stay organised.
Topics:
- An exploration of common CSS designs and the techniques used to create them
- Assessing online resources - the good, the bad and the proof of concept
- Dynamic navigation and menu techniques
- Exploiting the box-model for layout - columns, curves, images and backgrounds
- Advanced selectors and pseudo-selectors - more than just :hover
- Media-specific styles
- Planning for effective design
Who is it for?
This workshop is ideal for anyone with CSS experience who is looking to improve their skills and learn to be less reliant on someone else's code!
You must have had hands-on experience with XHTML and CSS code and be comfortable with use of the CSS box model and core positioning methods. These are covered on the Netskills workshop CSS: A Complete Web Style Toolkit, (which would make an ideal primer for this event).
By the end of the workshop participants will have:
- Considered how plan design work more effectively
- Explored the implementation of a range of CSS techniques
- Assessed and used external resources
- Hopefully been inspired to make more creative websites!
Scheduled workshops
No workshops scheduled at this time.
