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Week One
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Wednesday - Lesson 01
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In this lesson, we'll review some of the basics, and take a fresh new look at how CSS and XHTML combine to define every page as a document tree. You'll gain insight into how cascading and inheritance work. Understanding these concepts will help you get more mileage out every line of code you write.
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Friday - Lesson 02
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In this lesson, you'll explore the document tree in more detail, and discover new ways to create powerful, flexible CSS style rules. You'll discover the universal selector, descendant selectors, shorthand properties, and more. You'll use these new techniques throughout the course to create more powerful style sheets and better Web pages.
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Week Two
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Wednesday - Lesson 03
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Nothing jazzes up a Web site like a good page layout. In this lesson, you'll discover techniques for designing and creating flexible table-less page layouts. You'll learn to plan and implement a page layout with minimal effort using modern CSS and XHTML techniques.
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Friday - Lesson 04
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Today, we'll go over everything you need to know about CSS floats. You'll learn the techniques the pros use to create complex page layouts using relatively simple code based on floats and wrappers. The vast majority of Web sites you view every day use these very same techniques.
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Week Three
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Wednesday - Lesson 05
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In the ever-changing world of Web design, maintaining creative control over every aspect of your Web site isn't always easy. In this lesson, you'll discover how to use semantic markup to minimize coding, maximize productivity, and maintain a consistent look and feel across different brands of Web browsers.
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Friday - Lesson 06
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It's all about images. Today, you'll learn new ways to use pictures in modern elastic page layouts. You'll discover new techniques that allow pictures to grow and shrink, without distortion, to adjust to the user's preferred text size and screen magnification.
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Week Four
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Wednesday - Lesson 07
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In this lesson, you'll learn techniques for creating highly accessible, fully elastic navigation bars. You'll learn ways to use background images to spice up your navigation bars. And you'll discover techniques the pros use to indicate the current page in their navigation bars.
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Friday - Lesson 08
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If your site is too large for a single navigation menu, drop-down menus may be your answer. Contrary to popular belief, you don't need to use alternative technologies like Flash or JavaScript to create drop-down menus. As you'll learn in this lesson, you can do it all with CSS and XHTML alone!
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Week Five
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Wednesday - Lesson 09
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In this lesson, you'll discover more ways to gain total control over the size and position of every element in your page. You'll learn how to deal with tricky situations in narrow sidebar columns. You'll master the techniques for controlling the vertical positioning of elements using modern CSS techniques.
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Friday - Lesson 10
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What can you do if your text doesn't fit in the allotted space? In today's lesson, you'll discover new techniques for managing overflows and scroll bars. You'll learn how to use captioned images in pages using modern CSS and div tags. And you'll uncover the techniques the pros use to maximize search engine optimization in pages with complex layouts.
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Week Six
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Wednesday - Lesson 11
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These days, much of Web design is about accessibility. In this lesson, you'll learn how to make your pages more accessible to people with sensory and motor disabilities. And you'll find out about a new and easy technique for making printer-friendly versions of your pages using a few simple CSS style rules.
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Friday - Lesson 12
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Step beyond the boundaries of CSS and XHTML, and learn about server-side tools. In our final lesson, you'll learn how to use content across multiple pages in your site via SSI (Server Side Includes).
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