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In this course you will learn the basics of Cascading Style Sheets - how to save time and effort by separating the design of your pages from their content. CSS gives you control and enables you to edit or altar one page or your entire site in moments instead of hours. You will learn how to convert HTML tags to CSS elements and to control the properties of those elements using style sheets. We will also explore the Document Object Model (DOM), and the use of Java Script and Dynamic HTML to quickly create and maintain professional looking pages and Web sites Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions. This class has been officially reviewed by our Course Review Committee that scrutinizes course content and instructor participation. This course has received our Committee's highest rating: 4 stars.

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Continuing Education Units (CEU)
1.0 CEUs

Course Description

In this course you will learn the basics of Cascading Style Sheets - how to save time and effort by separating content from design. CSS gives you control, and enables you to edit or altar one page or your entire Web site in moments instead of hours. You will learn how to convert HTML tags to CSS elements, and to control those elements in the DOM (document object model) with Java Script and DHTML to quickly create and maintain professional looking, dynamic pages and Web sites.
InCascading Style Sheets you will learn the basics of Cascading Style Sheets - how to save time and effort by separating the design of your pages from their content. This course is for students who are at least somewhat familiar with HTML, and can find their way around an HTML editor. In this course you will: 1. Learn to separate content from design. 2. Learn to use inline, embedded, and external style sheets in HTML documents. 3. Learn to use the CSS Class and ID attributes to define and control elements in your Web pages. 4. Create dynamic, professional looking Web sites.

The eight lessons include: Introduction, Inheritance and Conflicting Styles, Formatting Text and Fonts, Formatting Colors and Backgrounds, Exploring CSS Class and ID Attributes, Create Your Own HTML Tags, Positioning Block-Level Elements, The Document Object Model.

Instructor Kenneth Bennet's qualifications include: New Hampshire College: Human Services (Two-Year Certificate Program). Irvine Valley College: Dynamic HTML, Java Script, XML, A+ Computer Technician Certification Program. Coastline Regional Occupational Program: Desktop Publishing, A+ Micro-Computer Service Technician Course, MS Front Page 2000, Computer Networking, Managing Computer Technology. Digital University: Beginning DHTML.


This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.

Course Lessons

  1. Introduction - This lesson clarifies the need for style sheets. It defines how application of the different types of style sheets minimizes the time and effort required to design professional looking Web sites. The lesson also introduces the W3C Web site for CSS.
  2. Inheritance and Conflicting Styles - This lesson provides a clear explanation of the cascading order of style sheets. It explains the potential for conflicting styles, and how to avoid or resolve style conflicts in your Web designs.
  3. Formatting Text and Fonts - In this lesson you will learn ways to present text using CSS that really opens up the screen, makes your content more legible, and attracts greater interest in your pages
  4. Formatting Colors and Backgrounds - Now CSS will teach you to control, not only the page colors, backgrounds, and images, but the color, background, and image properties of every element on the page.
  5. Exploring CSS Class and ID Attributes - With CSS "Classes", you will learn to alter the inherent characteristics of any HTML tag for your design purposes. ID's, enable you to give unique identities to elements to control them with Java Script functions.
  6. Create Your Own HTML Tags - In this lesson you will learn how to create your own block-level and inline HTML tags or elements and programmable objects using DIV and SPAN tags in conjunction with the CSS Class and ID properties.
  7. Positioning Block-Level Elements - This lesson covers absolute and relative positioning of block-level elements, formatting the block-level box model, and CSS element's visibility controls.
  8. The Document Object Model - This lesson introduces the "Document Object Model" (DOM), defines the various versions operating at this time, and illustrates how the DOM interacts with Java Script to create dynamic content in your Web pages.
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Course Title : Cascading Style Sheets
CEU Value : (Continuing Education Units)
Course Number : 4926
Course Type : Computer Skill
Course URL : http://class.universalclass.com/css01
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Instructor : Kenneth Bennet
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Duration : Continuous: Enroll anytime!
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Basic Course: $20.00
with CEUs & Certificate: $45.00
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This is a non-credit course. This course may not fulfill any local, state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.
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