Lynda Creating a CSS Style Guide

Hands-on training highlights the importance of a CSS style guide which serves as an interface for the design team and a communication tool for the client. Laurie Burruss calls on her background as director of digital media at Pasadena City College and takes an informative, realworld approach to this topic. She shows how Dreamweaver CS4 can be used to develop a coherent sitewide emotion that boosts brand identity. The course culminates with building a working web style guide for professional use. Exercise files and a downloadable PDF quiz accompany the course.

Topics include:

* Planning a site from a blank file;
* Creating and editing a style guide with just HTML;
* Using the Property Inspector for text markup;
* Inserting images, tables, and footers for a custom look;
* Creating and editing an external CSS style sheet;
* Building a custom color palette for a site;
* Testing web pages in various browsers;
* Styling tips for professional sites.

Author: Laurie Burruss
Duration (hr:min): 3:31

The Course Includes:

Introduction 06:58
Welcome
Objective of this course
Using the exercise files

1. Setting Up Starting 28:26
* Dreamweaver for the first time;
* Defining a website;
* Understanding the Dreamweaver interface;
* Setting up a custom workspace;
* Setting essential preferences.

2. Creating and Editing a Style 56:54
* Guide with HTML Laying out a page in a text document;
* Creating and saving a new document;
* Inserting an image;
* Marking up text using the Property Inspector;
* Marking up text by hand;
* Inserting, formatting, and selecting a table;
* Creating links;
* Styling a footer.

3. Creating Internal Styles 22:15
* Using Modify Page Properties to create embedded styles;
* Creating links with CSS;
* Working with Code, Split, and Design views.

4. Previewing a Web Page in a Browser 08:52
* Defining browsers to test a web page;
* Previewing a web page in a browser.

5. Creating Custom Styles 16:44
* Using the Style List Using a span tag to add a class and customize appearance;
* Using the Tag Inspector to create and edit additional styles.

6. Creating and Editing an External Style 48:42
* Sheet Exporting existing styles into an external style sheet;
*Using the CSS Styles panel to add a new style;
* Using the div tag to create a content container;
* Overriding the default browser styles;
* Applying padding and margins;
* Styling header tags;
* Creating and styling compound tags;
* Editing preexisting rules.

7. Adding Professional Touches 19:36
* Improving the Footer;
* Commenting a CSS style sheet;
* Creating a custom color palette.

Conclusion
Style sheet final review