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CSS2 (Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2) is a language that allows you to separate content and style within a document. It makes developing and maintaining a web site a much easier task. In Virtual Training Company's tutorial, author Anthony Knox introduces you to CSS2, the structure of CSS, and how to create a basic style sheet. He guides you through visual formatting, such as positioning, and into advanced visual formatting, such as height and width properties. He will show you how to work with font, text, tables, and aural style sheets, as well. To get started now, simply click one of the topics below.
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Introduction
 Tools (03:39)
 What is CSS? (04:06)
 Where Can CSS be Used? (02:23)
 The Two Specifications (00:52)
 Simple/Advanced/XML Style Sheets (01:30)
 CSS Terminology (00:36)
 Using the Resource Library (03:34)
Beginning CSS
 Including CSS in a Document (07:44)
 Basic CSS Structure (03:17)
 CSS Comments (01:32)
 CSS Length Values (11:28)
 CSS URL Values (02:06)
 CSS Color Values (03:45)
 CSS Strings & Quotation Marks (01:52)
 CSS Angle Values (01:15)
 CSS Time Values (01:14)
 CSS Frequency Values (01:15)
 Creating a Basic Style-Sheet (07:23)
CSS Selectors
 Basic Selectors (07:51)
 Descendant Selectors (02:48)
 Child Selectors (02:39)
 Adjacent Sibling Selectors (01:30)
 Attribute Selectors (09:02)
 Class & ID as Selectors (05:12)
 Pseudo Elements & Pseudo Classes (00:51)
 First Child Pseudo Class (04:41)
 Link Pseudo Classes (02:49)
 Dynamic Pseudo Classes (09:43)
 Lang Pseudo Class (06:32)
 First Line & First Letter Pseudo Elements (04:16)
 Before & After Pseudo Elements (04:19)
 Creating an Advanced Style-Sheet (15:20)
The Cascade
 Introduction to the Cascade (02:28)
 Cascading Order (08:12)
 Important Rules (01:15)
 Inheritance & Inherit (02:01)
 The Document Tree (02:54)
 Calculating Specificity (04:04)
Media Types
 Media Dependent Style Sheets (03:44)
 The @media Rule (11:22)
 Media Types (03:12)
 Media Groups (03:12)
The Box Model
 Introduction to the Box Model (05:24)
 Margin (02:21)
 Margin Shorthand (06:00)
 Padding (04:04)
 Padding Shorthand (02:59)
 Introduction to Borders (07:12)
 Border/Color Properties (04:02)
 Border/Style Properties (05:36)
 Border/Shorthand Properties (05:10)
 Border/Shorthand (01:22)
 Applying Borders to Index Document (05:15)
Visual Formatting
 The Display Property (04:03)
 Using the Display Property with XML (02:00)
 Run-in and Compact (03:43)
 Positioning (01:52)
 Using Floats (04:29)
 The Clear Property (02:23)
 Absolute Positioning (04:20)
 Relative Positioning (03:01)
 Fixed Positioning (11:07)
 Applying Positioning to Index Document (03:08)
 Using the Stack Index (03:46)
 Text Direction and Unicode (02:05)
Advanced Visual Formatting
 The Width Property (04:28)
 The Height Property (03:13)
 Line Height (02:52)
 Vertical Align (05:04)
Visual Effects
 Overflow (05:07)
 Clip (02:13)
 Visibility (04:33)
Generated Content
 Content (09:27)
 Quote (04:15)
 Counter Reset/Increment (13:46)
 Marker Offset (07:27)
 List Style/Type (10:26)
 List Style/Image (02:55)
 List Style/Position (01:13)
 List Style (01:35)
Paged Media
 Introduction to Paged Media (07:09)
 @page (01:21)
 Size (03:23)
 Margins (03:11)
 Marks (02:07)
 Left/Right/First (06:53)
 Page Break (07:36)
 Page (07:12)
 Orphans/Widows (02:19)
 Using the Page System (00:49)
Colors & Backgrounds
 Color (01:34)
 Background Color (00:55)
 Background Image (02:00)
 Background Repeat (01:31)
 Background Attachment (01:42)
 Background Position (02:48)
 Background (01:33)
 Applying Backgrounds to Index (03:40)
Fonts
 Family (05:11)
 Font Style (01:22)
 Font Variant (00:56)
 Font Weight (01:59)
 Font Stretch (01:52)
 Font Size (03:59)
 Font Size/Adjust (03:56)
 Font (03:38)
 Updating the Index Page (03:53)
Advanced Fonts
 @font-face (02:07)
 Basic Font Descriptors (04:40)
 Unicode Range/units-per-em (00:55)
 src (02:21)
 Other Advanced Properties (01:39)
Text
 Text Indent (02:48)
 Text Align (01:57)
 Text Decoration (03:12)
 Text Shadow (06:43)
 Letter Spacing (01:47)
 Word Spacing (01:34)
 Text Transform (02:33)
 White Space (04:36)
Tables
 Setting the Display Property (05:20)
 Caption Side (03:51)
 Table Layout (02:42)
 Border Collapse (03:11)
 Border Spacing (01:39)
 Empty Cells (02:37)
 Speak Header (04:45)
User Interface
 Cursor (04:50)
 User Preferences for Colors (04:45)
 Outline Width (02:06)
 Outline Style (00:50)
 Outline Color (01:33)
 Outline (01:20)
Aural Style Sheets
 Why Aural Style-Sheets? (02:11)
 Volume (04:04)
 Speak (01:10)
 Pause (Before/After/Pause) (02:28)
 Cue (Before/After/Cue) (05:05)
 Play During (03:38)
 Azimuth (06:55)
 Elevation (01:20)
 Speech Rate (02:59)
 Voice Family (01:47)
 Pitch (02:17)
 Pitch Range (01:58)
 Stress (02:14)
 Richness (01:55)
 Speak Punctuation (01:29)
 Speak Numeral (02:00)
 Summing up Aural CSS (01:13)
Finalising the Website Library
 Adding Borders (05:56)
 Adding Backgrounds (06:48)
 The Final CSS Presentation (02:36)
 Testing Site in Dominant Browsers (06:37)
The Future of CSS
 CSS in the Future (02:20)


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Tutorial Information / Pricing
Title: CSS2 Tutorials
Author: Anthony Knox
SKU: 33254
ISBN: 1930519885
Duration: 10 hrs / 155 Lessons
Compatibility: Win XP, 2000, 98, NT, Mac OS X, OS 9

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