CSS: The Basics and Beyond

Overview

Our next training webinar will be on developing and using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

The webinar will be run as two 1.5 hour sessions by Dave Gash from the US. Dave will run these sessions in early February next year.

• In the first session, Dave will start by introducing participants to the basics of developing cascading style sheets (CSS) to control the formatting and presentation of HTML documents, such as web pages and online help systems. Dave will give participants some practical exercises to complete before the second session.
• During the second session, Dave will review the exercises and continue with some more advanced features, leaving participants with a sound understanding of CSS and how to apply them to their work.

If you need to extend your knowledge of this important area of web development, please read on!

Webinar content

You probably have an idea of what a Cascading Style Sheet is, and perhaps what it does to an HTML page. But exactly how does CSS work, why is it important, and how can you use it effectively in your web pages and help systems?

Over the course of these two webinar sessions, we’ll first look at the basics of Cascading Style Sheets and introduce you to rules, selectors, declarations, properties, and values. Next we’ll see how to apply CSS rules from both inside and outside our pages, and then examine how a CSS feature called "classes" can simplify everything.

As we go beyond the fundamentals, we'll cover a clever little item called "contextual selectors", followed by multiple style sheets, style sheets for printing, take a look at some troubleshooting ideas, and find out where to learn more.

Audience

Anyone who needs to learn about using CSS to control the format of HTML documents, especially on websites or in web-based user assistance.

Prerequisites

Participants should already:

• Have a basic knowledge of HTML concepts
• Have some experience in coding HTML tags.

Topics

When

• Session 1: Wednesday 1 February 2012, 11:00am-12:30pm NZST.
• Session 2: Wednesday 8 February 2012, 11:00am-12:30pm NZST.

Cost

The registration fees shown below include both webinar sessions.

Earlybird registrations

• Members: $95 ($109.25 inc GST)
• Non-members: $200 ($230.00 inc GST)

Late registrations (one week or less before webinar)

• Members: $120 ($138 inc GST)
• Non-members: $225 ($258.75 inc GST)

Note: Members = members of TCANZ and affiliated organisations: NZATD, ASTC(NSW), ASTC(VIC), GOVIS

Please read our payment terms and conditions relating to cancellations and refunds. 

Registration

Be sure to look at the information for webinar attendees before you register for this webinar.

Places are limited, so please register now!

Important

• We will send you details of how to complete your registration for the webinar as soon as we receive your payment.
• Participants who are not based in New Zealand must pay the registration fee by credit card (Visa or Mastercard).

About the Presenter

About Dave Gash

Dave holds degrees in business and computer science, and is a W3C-certified Web developer. He is the rare technician who can communicate with people as well as with computers, and is well known in the tech pubs community as an interesting and animated technical instructor with a positive, energetic style that educates, motivates, and delivers results. His enthusiasm for his subject matter is evident, and his plain-English approach to complex issues makes technical material accessible to techno-philes and -phobes alike.

For over fifteen years, Dave has been a popular speaker and presenter at hypertext-related conferences and seminars in the US and around the world, most notably those hosted by WritersUA of Seattle, Washington and HyperWrite of Melbourne, Australia. His overseas conference travels have included England, Scotland, Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands, France, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.