Lynda.com - CSS Positioning Best Practices
Date: 24 August 2011 | Posted by: pool
Author: Bill Weinman | Released: 8/7/2009 | Duration: 02h 32m | Level: Intermediate
Web designers and coders will be introduced to techniques to improve their results in CSS Positioning Best Practices. Beginning with a brief review of CSS, instructor Bill Weinman demonstrates how to position elements on a page using CSS instead of tables. He then goes step by step through the process of using CSS positioning to lay out pages that have traditionally been laid out using HTML tables. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:
Understanding style sheets and levels of inheritance
Learning how to use CSS units of measure in page layout
Laying out content on a page using absolute, relative, float, and fixed positioning
Using CSS positioning to place menus, buttons, graphics, and columns precisely on a page
Using templates to improve workflow
Creating a full working web site, step by step
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