Overview
This hands-on course will teach you to effectively plan, design, and troubleshoot websites. Industry professionals lead students through nine course modules including hands-on exercises and a class web design project. Students will gain a strong skill set and knowledge base in web design and development. Course curriculum includes XHTML, Web design and graphics, FrontPage, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop and an introduction to E-commerce.

Please call 202-687-4504 for more information on this program and other Information Technology Certificates and courses.

Prerequisites
This course is designed for students who want to learn how to design and implement web pages and websites for professional and personal use. Prospective students interested in taking this course should have some experience using Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, the Internet and email.

Program Outline

• Web Design Fundamentals
• XHTML and HTML
• Web Designing and Graphics
• Introduction to JavaScript
• Cascading Style Sheets
• FrontPage
• Dreamweaver
• Flash
• Photoshop
• E-Commerce

XHTML and HTML

• Introduction to XHTML
• Creating your first XHTML document
• Adding graphics
• Linking
• Publishing XHTML documents
• Frames
• Tables
• Forms
• Formatting with style sheets
• Metadata
• Looking ahead

Web Designing and Graphics

• Web design introduction
• Site evaluation
• Browser basics
• The site design process
• Target market
• Planning the layout of your website
• Planning browser compatibility
• Planning the design of your web site
• Planning the content of your web site
• Navigating your site
• Accessibility issues
• Search engines
• Validating your work
• Effective visual presentation
• What makes a good web site?
• Web image preparation
• File formats
• Colors/displays
• Essential image edits

FrontPage

• Introduction to FrontPage
• Linking Web pages
• Enhancing web pages
• Adding pictures to a Web page
• Working with tables
• Introduction to Web page management
• Designing & building a Web site
• Page design & working with frames
• Creating forms & collecting the data
• Adding media & functionality to Web pages
• Reports & collaboration
• Animation & style sheets
• Adding effects and components
• Working with style sheets
• Creating forms
• Form results
• Managing web pages
• Designing and promoting web pages

Introduction to JavaScript

• Getting acquainted with JavaScript
• Language essentials
• Image basics
• Fun with images
• Working with browser window
• Form handling
• Making your pages dynamic
• Handling events
• Making pages dynamic
• JavaScript and cookies
• Working with DHTML
• User interface design with JavaScript
• Applied JavaScript
• Bookmarks
• Debugging common errors

Cascading Style Sheets

• Overview of style sheets
• Selectors & structure
• Units & values
• Text and font properties
• Applying colors and backgrounds
• Background techniques
• Link properties
• Authoring effective CSS rules
• Writing and validating CSS design
• Validation techniques
• Topography design
• Backgrounds, border & color
• Linking
• CSS-P
• Layouts

Dreamweaver

• Internet access & HTML
• Creating a web site
• Building a web site
• Adding content to web pages
• Working with links
• Enhancing navigation in a site
• Managing and uploading a web site
• Rollovers & navigation bars
• Libraries
• Head elements/ keyboard shortcuts
• Style sheets
• Layers
• The history panel
• Browser targeting / code tools
• Creating forms

Flash

• The flash environment
• Drawing and painting
• Manipulating objects
• Working with text
• Multiple layers in a movie
• Creating animation
• Publishing your flash movies
• Symbols & instances
• Organizing large projects / interactivity
• Working with sound
• Testing/publishing a movie
• Actionscript basics
• Planning movies
• Creating simple interactivity
• Creating a video game
• Creating complex interactivity
• Components

Photoshop

• Introduction to Photoshop
• Importing and exporting images
• Adjusting image size and orientation
• Adjusting image color and balance
• Using Photos in your website
• Using Photos from the Internet and Copyright Issues
• Special Photography Effects

E-Commerce

• Introduction to business on the net
• Internet basics
• Internet business strategy: corporate communication
• Internet business strategy: marketing
• Internet business strategy: direct sales
• Getting connected
• Internet strategic planning
• Other benefits to connecting