[Baynet] Infopeople's "Cascading Style Sheets" workshop

[Linda Rodenspiel]

Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive
this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or
route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks!

 

Title:  Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): Pixel-Level Control with HTML Ease 

 

Dates and locations:

 

Thursday, August 14, San Mateo Public Library

Thursday, September 4, San Diego County Library Headquarters

Tuesday, September 23, Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library

Thursday, October 9, California State Library

Wednesday, October 22, San Jose, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library

 

To register for this workshop:  Use the online registration form at

http://infopeople.org/workshop/357 

 

Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop.

 

 

While other Web pages have taken on a new look, your site looks outdated and
doesn't manage its space effectively. You want to give it a little dazzle
while keeping it user-friendly. With Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), you can
have pixel-level control without learning complicated programming. CSS can
help you to create a template for all your pages to follow. You can easily
try on different styles and colors, then change them back in a moment. Your
content can stay the same, but look much better with an improved layout.
Learning CSS requires the same tools you use to write HTML: a text editor
and a browser. This workshop will teach the basics of CSS, some intermediate
tricks and tips, and the best Web sites to further your knowledge.

 

Workshop Description: This is an all-day, hands-on training session. Through
individual and group exercises, you will become familiar with CSS and how it
can enhance ordinary Web pages in conjunction with HTML. The instructor will
provide cheat sheets, a webliography, as well as practical tips that can be
applied immediately. 

Preliminary Course Outline

*	CSS vs. HTML alone 

*	Definitions and appearance 
*	Galleries 

*	Beginning CSS 

*	Planning 
*	Boxes 
*	Colors and fonts 

*	Texts and Links 

*	Alignment 
*	Decoration 

*	Grouping Elements 

*	Span and div 
*	Padding and margins 
*	Borders 

Instructor:  Lisa R. Bartle.  Lisa Bartle is a reference librarian at Cal.
State University, San Bernardino. Lisa owns the  <http://www.dawcl.com>
Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature and
<http://www.abc-lit.com> ABC-Lit: An Index to Children's Literature
Scholarship. Her online databases use Perl, Vbscript, and PHP. During 2008,
Lisa was the president of IT Section of the California Library Association.
During 2006, she taught three classes on PHP for Infopeople. Her most recent
class for Infopeople covers Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS.

Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community with an
interest in learning Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to enhance both ease of
use as well as overall design of library Web pages. It is especially good
for the "default techie" - that librarian or staff member who takes care of
the technology, but wasn't originally trained for that job.

Prerequisites: This course requires that students be comfortable with basic
computer skills, including using a mouse, navigating the web, and basic
keyboarding. For help with these basic skills, we recommend the New Computer
Users section of the Infopeople Resources Guides, at
<http://infopeople.org/resources> infopeople.org/resources. Familiarity with
HTML is required. 

Other Logistics:

 

*On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM;  instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30
PM.

 

*Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople
Web site at 

http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions.  Infopeople does not validate
or pay for parking.

 

*Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch.  Since some training
locations do not have in-house or convenient food service.  Infopeople
recommends that participants bring a sack lunch.

 

To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information
about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops
page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop

 

If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please
contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at
assist at infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. 

 

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