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Advanced CSS Styling – Newcastle Upon Tyne

About the workshop

Join designer and author Andy Clarke for a full day learning how to use the most up-to-date CSS in your work today. Be inspired to find new ways of designing using CSS.

Modern web browsers now better capable of rendering advanced CSS than ever before. From highly targeted CSS selectors to new ways to work with layout, colour and typography, if you are a web designer or developer, working with CSS has never been more exciting.

‘Advanced CSS Styling’ is a unique one-day master class presented by Andy Clarke, designer and author of the best-selling Transcending CSS. Spend the day with Andy learning how to use the most up-to-date CSS techniques in your everyday work.

What you will learn

  • How to design balanced, inspired layouts using advanced CSS positioning techniques
  • New ways to work with colour using RGBa
  • Using multiple background and border images
  • How to use text and box shadows
  • About CSS gradients, reflections and transitions

Of course the browser landscape is varied and each browser supports different CSS properties. You will learn how to design around, rather than hack around these natural differences to create experiences that are enjoyable for everyone, no matter which browser they use. You will learn:

  • How to improve a browser’s CSS support using Javascript
  • Modernizr and how it will help you to design around browser support
  • When using Universal Internet Explorer 6 is appropriate

Web typography is one of the hottest topics in web design and development. As a self-confessed typography perfectionist, Andy will teach you:

  • Working with font embedding solutions including Typekit, Kernest and Cufon
  • Creating striking, readable type with typographic hierarchies
  • How to improve typography with kerning, leading and baseline shifts

In this full day master class, you will also learn the latest techniques for designing in a browser and how to test your designs for web accessibility throughout your design process.

Don’t miss out

Don’t miss this opportunity to be inspired to find new ways of using CSS and how to use the most up-to-date CSS techniques. Places for each workshop are limited to thirty and prices start at only £275.00+VAT for limited early bird places.

Register now!

Copthorne Hotel,
October 30th 2009

Register

£325.00 per person*

Includes tuition, course materials, breakfast, lunch and snacks. Places are limited to 30.

Schedule

8.30am – 9.00am

Registration & Breakfast

Register, get settled and enjoy a cuppa and danish with your fellow attendees.
9.00am – 10:30am

Introduction

  1. The browser landscape and how CSS is being developed.
  2. Web sites do not need to look exactly the same in every browser.
  3. The natural differences between browsers.
  4. How designing in a browser can be creative and the techniques and tools that make it possible.
10:30 – 11:00

Break
11:00am – 12:30am
  1. New ways to work with colour using RGBa and Opacity.
  2. Using multiple background and border images.
  3. How to use text and box shadows.
  4. CSS masks fills, and gradients.
  5. CSS reflections.
  6. CSS transforms, transitions and animations.
12:30am – 1:30pm

Lunch
1:30pm – 3:00pm

Javascript and progressive enrichment

  1. How to improve a browser’s CSS support using Javascript including Dean Edwards’ IE8 scripts.
  2. Modernizr and how it will help you to design around browser support.
  3. Designing rather than hacking around browser differences
  4. Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS and when using it is appropriate.
3:00pm – 3:30pm

Break

Tea, coffee and warm chocolate cookies
3:30pm – 5:30pm

@font-face font embedding and typography

  1. Creating striking, readable type with typographic hierarchies.
  2. How to improve typography with kerning, leading and baseline shifts.
  3. Working with font embedding solutions including Typekit, Kernest and Cufon.
  4. Q&A and discussion.
6:30pm – late

Evening social

A chance to wind down, sink a few and socialize: http://blog.dpivision.com/2009/08/come-and-meet-us-at-the-forabeautifulweb-masterclass/

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