Presenting Cascading Style Sheets

I had the pleasure of being a guest lecturer at work last week, presenting to students in the Masters in Interactive Multimedia. Little ol' me, a web desk jockey, teaching masters students, who'd a thunk it?

I was lecturing about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), encouraging impressionable future web developers down the righteous path of web standards. We're rather keen on web standards at work, our website is now using a CSS layout with mainly valid code. So it was good to be able to preach what we practice.

I think the talk went down well, i wasn't a gibbering mess and the students seemed to grasp what i was talking about. It was a little difficult knowing where to pitch the presentation as some students were absolute beginners, only just introduced to HTML and some were already quite technically adept. So i kept it fairly simple, i didn't touch on CSS layout, floats and the like. But i provided some links with plenty more reading. I introduced the basic concepts: what is CSS, why to use it and how to use it. There was also a practical exercise at the end which most people breezed through.

In the spirit of sharing and caring you can download the materials i prepared for the talk:

If you're looking for some really excellent presentations on web standards/CSS (or the slides from them anyway) check out these fine pieces of work. Bits of each of them certainly helped me:



Comments (1)

And a wonderful job you did to Daniel! I know the students loved it :)))