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Designing and Building Great Web Pages: Hands-On

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

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 Adobe Dreamweaver
  • Generate Web pages and sites using XHTML, tables and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • Enhance Web pages with special effects and Ajax

Course Benefits

Organizations cannot 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 Adobe Dreamweaver
  • Developing logically structured Web pages using tables, the box model and CSS
  • Building multilayer pages
  • Enhancing Web pages with Ajax

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Upcoming Dates

Jan 13 - 16, 2009
 New York
Jan 27 - 30, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Feb 17 - 20, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Apr 14 - 17, 2009
 Atlanta
May 26 - 29, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Jun 2 - 5, 2009
 Ottawa
Jun 16 - 19, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Jul 14 - 17, 2009
 New York
Aug 18 - 21, 2009
 Toronto

For complete schedule, please visit www.learningtree.com
 
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Designing and Building Great Web Pages: Hands-On

 
Course: 487   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
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 Adobe 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 tables and the CSS box model
  • Leveraging 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 Ajax
  • Enabling JavaScript and the DOM
  • Creating rollover graphics
  • Scrolling text

Server-side dynamic content

  • Building dynamic Web pages
  • Employing scripting
 
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Designing and Building Great Web Pages: Hands-On Tuition

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

Course Tuition
$ 2,790 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,800 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,625 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,515 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,484 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Training Passport
  • 3 courses in 12 months
  • As little as $1,670 per course
  • Savings as much as 45%
  • Only $5,000
Premium Pass
  • 4 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,625 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
10-Day Pass
  • A NEW way to save on training
  • 10 days of training for one person
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Only $4,500
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,200 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you'll receive a personalized Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as $305 on each course you take within the following 12 months. Take just one course each year and you'll be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year!

Your Guarantee of Satisfaction

Unless you feel 100% satisfied that Learning Tree delivered even more than you expected, there is no fee for your course attendance. Our Guarantee of Quality lets you experience the value of the course--and then pay only if you feel the course was well worth the tuition.

Enrolling is Easy and Flexible!

Enroll by phone or online. If your plans change, just let us know and, without a fee, you can transfer to another course or cancel your enrollment. Pay after you've taken the course, and then only if you are 100% satisfied.
 
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