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Designing and Building Great Web Pages: Hands-On

 
Course: 487     Type: Hands-On Training     Duration: 4 Days

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You Will Learn How To
  • Design the presentation and coherent organization of Web pages
  • Build powerful Web content that effectively conveys your message
  • Create and manage graphical content using Adobe Photoshop
  • Develop standards-based Web sites with MS Expression Web and Macromedia Dreamweaver
  • Generate Web pages and sites using XHTML, tables and Cascading Style Sheets
  • Enhance Web pages with special effects and DHTML

Course Benefits
Organizations can not afford to lose their competitive edge by presenting Web pages that are anything less than visually stimulating and user friendly. In this course, you employ a case study and gain experience with storyboarding techniques and layout design to deliver the power and flexibility of a professional Web page. You learn how to use comprehensive tools and exploit the latest techniques to enhance your Web presence.

Who Should Attend
Those involved in presenting information via corporate intranets or the Web. General familiarity with Web browsers and Windows is assumed. HTML knowledge is helpful.

Hands-On Training
An ongoing case study provides experience creating and organizing Web content. Exercises include:
  • Storyboarding to define page layout
  • Implementing Web page design elements
  • Creating graphics using Adobe Photoshop
  • Creating content with Microsoft Expression Web and Macromedia Dreamweaver
  • Developing logically structured Web pages using tables, the box model and CSS
  • Building multilayer pages
  • Enhancing Web pages with DHTML

Course 487 Content
Fundamentals of Web Design
Web page design fundamentals
  • The roles of a Web page author
  • Business considerations
  • User profiling
  • Accessibility
  • Architectural issues
  • Developing a business case and site plan
Design issues
  • What is design?
  • Web site types
  • Selecting font style and color
  • Alignment
  • Proximity
  • Navigation
  • Focal point
  • Storyboard
  • Layout
  • Designing graphics
  • Working with photographs
Creating Graphical Content
Fundamentals of computer imaging
  • Rasterized images
  • GIF
  • JPEG
  • PNG
  • Outlined images
  • Anti-aliasing
Acquiring graphics for your Web pages
  • Producing computer-generated artwork
  • Working with camera and scanner output
Adobe Photoshop
  • Utilizing layers and selections
  • Creating special effects
  • Enhancing images using filters
  • Adding drop-shadow effects
  • Applying guides and rulers
  • Optimizing and animating graphics
Building Web pages in XHTML code
  • Becoming familiar with the DOCTYPE
  • Dissecting the sections of an XHTML document
  • Adding ordered and unordered lists
  • Building hyperlinks and Web bookmarks
Constructing Web Pages
Designing pages with Microsoft Expression Web
  • Working with the task panes
  • Defining the Expression interface
  • Managing the Tag Property panel
  • Utilizing dynamic Web templates
  • Exploring Standards and Quirks mode
  • Developing pages in code, split or design view
Utilizing Expression Web toolset
  • Toolbox options
  • Basic formatting
  • Lists, links and images
  • Importing documents and templates from other sources
Setting up a local site in Macromedia Dreamweaver
  • Working with the window
  • Lists, links, text and images
  • Designing with frames
Working with Dreamweaver panels
  • Utilizing the Start panel
  • Editing and deleting local sites
  • Assigning assets
  • Creating library items and snippets
  • Building a customized Favorites panel
Creating pages in Dreamweaver
  • Customizing the document window
  • Working with the Properties tool
  • Selecting objects
  • Modifying object properties
  • Developing in code, split or design view
Developing Complex Web Pages
  • Structuring pages using the table tools
  • Leveraging Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • Selectors
  • Rule syntax
  • Positioning
  • Group and Contextual Selectors
  • Importing CSS
  • Working with XHTML, tables and CSS in Expression Web and Dreamweaver
  • Leveraging the CSS task pane in Expression Web
Building Interactive Web Pages
Providing interactivity with forms
  • Input types
  • Form validation
  • Defining form scope and form elements in Expression Web and Dreamweaver
Client-side dynamic content
  • Working with DHTML
  • Enabling JavaScript and the DOM
  • Creating rollover graphics
  • Scrolling text
Server-side dynamic content
  • Building dynamic Web pages
  • Employing scripting

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Course Tuition
$ 2,650 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,660 10-Day Pass
$ 1,665 Training Passport
$ 1,830 Flex-Pass
$ 2,095 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,385 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,360 Government Discount
 

 

Designing and Building Great Web Pages: Hands-On
Designing and Building Great Web Pages: Hands-On
Course participants using a visual editor to create and organize Web content.

Certification Core Course CPE 23 Credits 2 Hour(s) College Credit
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