Knowledge Network

 

The Knowledge Network
1510 Central Avenue
Albany, NY 12205
Phone (518)452-2675
Fax: (518)452-2872
Office Hours:
Mon-Fri 9:00am-6:00pm
learn@knowledgenetwork.org

 

CSS - Level 2

Location: Latham

Explore positioning and layout techniques, create navigation and web forms, test for cross-browser compatibility and fix challenges.

Recommended Preparation: CSS - Level 1 or equivalent knowledge.

Lesson 1: Orientation

  • Meaningful markup
  • Getting your styles to hit the target
  • Planning, organizing and maintaining

Lesson 2: Positioning

  • Box model
  • Positioning
  • Relative positioning
  • Absolute positioning
  • Mixing relative and absolute positioning
  • Floating
  • Line boxes and clearing

Lesson 3: Layout

  • Centering a design using auto-margins
  • Centering a design using positioning and negative margins
  • Float-based layout
  • Liquid layout
  • Elastic layout
  • Elastic/liquid hybrid layout
  • Liquid and elastic images
  • Faux columns
     
  

Lesson 4: CSS for Navigation

  • Basic list styling
  • Creating a vertical navBar
  • Highlighting the current page in the navBar
  • Creating a horizontal navigation bar
  • Creating a CSS-based fly-out menu without JavaScript

Lesson 5: Web Forms

  • Simple form layout
  • Complicated form layout

Lesson 6: Cross-browser CSS

  • Hiding stylesheets from older browsers (filtering stylesheets)
  • Using CSS filters for individual rules and declarations
  • Validating code and fixing bugs
  • Common bugs
Course Fee: $199 Members: $189

Upcoming Class Schedules
# 3111 Mon Sept 20 8:30am-4:30pm