Web Authoring: Cascading Style Sheets and Tables (Level 3)

Prerequisites

This hands-on course will introduce cascading style sheets (CSS) and tables and show how they can (and should) be used effectively when creating web pages.

Knowledge of HTML/XHTML (as covered on Levels 1 and 2 and practised by writing web pages) will be assumed.

Number of sessions: 1

• Separation of content from rendering information
• Syntax of CSS - selectors, properties and values
• Inline use
• Use in the head section
• Classes and ids
• External stylesheets
• Prefomatted information
• The <table> tag
• Table structure
• Nested tables
• Tables for navigation
• Tables and css

Presentations, demonstrations and practicals

Internet Explorer and Firefox on PWF Windows

If you would like to take away a copy of the Web page you work on, please bring a floppy disk or a USB memory stick (if you can logon to your PWF account, you will have an opportunity to set up your Web pages on that account).

One half day session

• JISC Digital Proficiency
• Web Publishing & Management