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Web Design with HTML and CSS Digital Classroom
by Jeremy Osborn, Jennifer Smith, AGI Creative Team
November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
7h
English
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Lesson 8: Advanced CSS Layout
In this lesson you’ll learn how to refine the appearance of your page layout by adding graphics, color, and additional page sections.
What you’ll learn in this lesson:
• Using comments in your style sheets
• Using background images
• Creating navigation styles
• Working with absolute positioning
Starting up
You will work with several files from the web08lessons folder in this lesson. Make sure you have loaded the weblessons folder onto your hard-drive from www.digitalclassroombooks.com/webdesign. See “Loading lesson files” in the Starting Up section of this book.
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This lesson uses the TextWrangler text editor to create the markup, but you can use any of the text editors covered in Lesson 3. |
Building your page layout
In this lesson, you will be working with the ...
