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XHTML - Styling with CSS

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Build practical CSS skills and transform plain XHTML content into visually engaging, well-formatted web pages. Designed for beginners, aspiring web developers, and students, this course shows you how to separate content from presentation while creating clean, consistent, and standards-compliant designs. You’ll begin with CSS fundamentals, including purpose, syntax, color systems, and typography. You’ll then apply font families and generic font categories, compare text measurement units, and implement scalable and image-based font techniques. As you progress, you’ll control text alignment, add decorative effects, use font variants and class selectors for reusable formatting, and enhance semantic text with superscripts, subscripts, and small caps. Through practical XHTML examples and exercises, you’ll learn to select appropriate CSS properties, improve text readability, and create accessible, maintainable web typography. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to style XHTML text effectively, apply reusable class-based formatting, and combine typography, color, alignment, and decoration in polished web pages.

Syllabus

  • CSS Fundamentals and Typography
    • This module introduces learners to the foundational principles of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) within XHTML documents. It emphasizes how CSS is used to control presentation, including color, typography, and basic text formatting. Through practical examples, learners will gain proficiency in manipulating text appearance using fonts, units of measurement, and fallback strategies, preparing them to design visually engaging, standards-compliant web pages.
  • Text Styling and Practical Applications
    • This module focuses on advanced CSS techniques for enhancing textual presentation in XHTML documents. Learners will explore how to control text alignment, apply decorative styles, and use additional typographic attributes to refine the look and feel of web content. The module also provides hands-on experience with real-world font styling, class-based formatting, and semantic text enhancements such as superscripts, subscripts, and small caps. By the end, learners will be able to combine these elements to craft professional and accessible web typography.

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