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Course Details

Course category: Web, IT & Graphics

Location: Online, self-paced, self-assessed

Duration: 12 months

Cost: £199.99

Qualification: Online Academy Certified Diploma

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About This Course
If you’re a web designer or developer, you will have likely come across Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). But do you really know what CSS is and how you can use it to your advantage? If the answer to that is ‘no’ then you need to brush up on this valuable website formatting and stylistic language. CSS is the perfect online course for you to do just that. It combines beginner and advanced study topics for the full scope on CSS so you’re able to up your website design game in a flash.

Who is this course for?

This online course is ideal for anyone who is familiar with HTML coding that wants to build beautiful websites with CSS. CSS is aimed at web designers that want to refresh, or develop, their CSS skills and people that want to have more confidence when using CSS.

What will you get from this course?

CSS guides you through everything you need to know about CSS, from formatting and layout to navigation, right from the beginning. Unlocking the secrets of CSS will allow you to extend the formatting and stylistic capabilities of your HTML documents, or your Dreamweaver software, which, will lead to perfectly presented websites as a result. You’ll become a pro at designing and building websites in no time.

When you have completed this course, you will be able to:
- Utilise Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to add style and flare to your web pages
- Add padding and borders to different cells
- Insert background images and set up ‘no-repeat’ backgrounds
- Redefine HTML tags and create classes
- Set up external style sheets and use inline style
- Add style to certain words with the ‘span’ tag
- Build DIV layouts, centre DIVs and create vertical expanding DIVs
- Align and design elements with CSS Float
- Create links with CSS, including bullet and compound links
Course features
- Easy-to-follow video tutorials which you can dip in and out of at your leisure
- Engaging audio-led content that allows you to easily get to grips with CSS
- Downloadable ‘homework’ and root folder
Course lessons
- CSS Beginner Part 1
- - How CSS Works
- - CSS Set Up
- - Redefine body
- - Redefine h1 and h2
- - Redefine td and img
- - Creating Classes
- - Setting Padding
- - Background Images
- - No-Repeat Background
- - External Styles
- - Inline Style
- - Using Span
- CSS Beginner Part 2
- - Design with CSS Float
- - Introduction to DIV
- - Border and Padding
- - DIV Trick
- - Overflow Scroll
- - Centring DIVs
- - Floating DIVs
- - DIV Layout Method
- - Creating a DIV Layout
- - IDs
- - Vertical Expanding DIVs
- CSS Advanced
- - Compound Styles
- - CSS Links
- - Links with Bullets
- - Compound Links

Accreditation

This course has been accredited by Online Academies. On successful completion of this course you will be able to download or print off a PDF of your Online Academies Certificate (please note: you will also be given the opportunity to have a hard copy of the certificate printed off and posted out to you for a small additional charge). If you would like to view a sample of the certificate, please click here.

Online Academy work with Quality Licence Scheme (Quality Licence Scheme). The Quality Licence Scheme is part of the Skills and Education Group, a charitable organisation that unites education and skills-orientated organisations that share similar values and objectives. With more than 100 years of collective experience, the Skills and Education Group’s strategic partnerships create opportunities to inform, influence and represent the wider education and skills sector.

Assessment

At the conclusion of each module there is a multiple choice question assessment. This will help you remember the main points of the lesson and act as a check that you have retained the essential knowledge and understanding of that particular section. The results can be seen instantaneously and you can correct wrong answers. When the result is satisfactory you can progress to the next module.

Course Outcomes

Once you have successfully completed all the modules for your course you will be awarded:

A Diploma issued by Online Academies

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