About this course
Master the fine art of Cascading Style Sheet coding to both enhance and empower your web applications. This one-day course will build on previous Dreamweaver and HTML experience, and cover a wide range of CSS techniques.
CSS can be used not only to style particular elements of a webpage such as text or background colours but is now being used extensively in the creation of layouts and for positioning of page elements. The nature of CSS allows for flexible manipulation of styles, so that fast and complex changes can be made to webpages with relative ease.
This website is an example of how CSS can be used exclusively to control the layout and presentation. So if you are looking to create a highly flexible website and master the black art of CSS positioning and special effects, then this course is for you.
What you will learn
In this course we explore how Dreamweaver can be used as a CSS editor to create simple or sophisticated CSS, in both page-based styles or external style sheets. We then go on to illustrate advanced CSS techniques that allow you to build a complete website, with features such as dynamic navigation and rollover effects in CSS.
The importance of accessibility and how CSS can be used effectively to implement it is then addressed, as well as illustrating practical information on how to manage complex CSS files, prepare better CSS code and how to deal with the constraints that CSS has.
Care has been taken to offer advice towards testing for browser inconsistencies and offering practical advice to work round these issues. Future trends are then briefly touched on if time allows.
Assumed knowledge

This course will assume a reasonable knowledge of Dreamweaver or the prior attendance of our regular two-day Dreamweaver Essentials course. You need not be an expert but you should be relatively proficient in the creation of HTML.
If in doubt,
contact our office to discuss your requirements.
Please note: If you are new to web design and development then we strongly encourage you to consider enrolling in our Dreamweaver Essentials course, which may be attended as a companion to this one with associated discounts applicable.