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| Web Site Design (Theory) |
| Course Number: 0-619-06802-7 |
| Category: Web Design & Internet |
| Duration: 2.00 days |
Description
This two-day ILT Series Web Site Design class is designed for the student who wants to design attractive, informative, and usable Web pages. The target student for this course has already created simple Web pages that include text, hyperlinks, and graphics. Students will learn principles of user-focused design for the Web. In addition, they will learn to create a site specification and build a relative file structure.
Students will also learn to build navigation schemes, enhance page design using tables and Cascading Style Sheets, use different image file formats and size graphics, and the benefits and drawbacks of frames-based site designs. Finally, students will learn to choose an Internet Service Provider, use FTP to publish, plan for usability testing, and enhance search engine listings for a Web site.
Prerequisites
• Windows XP: Basic or Windows Vista: Basic
• HTML 4.0: Basic-Advanced
• Previous experience with Internet Explorer or another web browser is recommended
Outline
- Unit 1: Variables in the Web design environment
- Topic A: Introducing HTML and the future of markup
- Topic B: Introducing XML and XHTML
- Topic C: Understanding how browsers affect your work
- Unit 2: Web site design principles
- Topic A: Designing for the medium
- Topic B: Designing for the whole site
- Topic C: Designing for the screen
- Unit 3: Planning the site
- Topic A: Getting started
- Topic B: File names and URLs
- Topic C: Understanding directory structure
- Topic D: Preparing a diagram for the site
- Unit 4: Planning site navigation
- Topic A: Creating usable navigation
- Topic B: Using text-based navigation
- Topic C: Using graphics-based navigation
- Unit 5: Creating page templates
- Topic A: Understanding table basics
- Topic B: Table pointers
- Topic C: Using page templates
- Topic D: Understanding types of templates
- Unit 6: Web typography
- Topic A: Understanding type design principles
- Topic B: Controlling typography with the <FONT> element
- Unit 7: Controlling typography with cascading style sheets
- Topic A: Introducing CSS
- Topic B: Understanding CSS selection techniques
- Topic C: Understanding CSS font properties
- Topic D: Specifying block-level space values
- Topic E: Styling with CSS
- Unit 8: Graphics and color
- Topic A: Understanding the format basics
- Topic B: Understanding computer color basics
- Topic C: Using the <IMG> element
- Unit 9: Using graphics effectively
- Topic A: Managing other graphic related concerns
- Topic B: Using advanced graphic tools
- Topic C: Working with hexadecimal colors
- Unit 10: Using HTML frames
- Topic A: Understanding frames
- Topic B: Examining frame syntax
- Topic C: Using other frame-related features
- Topic D: Targeting framesets
- Topic E: Planning frame content
- Unit 11: Publishing and maintaining your Web site
- Topic A: Publishing your Web site
- Topic B: Testing your Web site
- Topic C: Attracting notice to your Web site
ISBN: 0-619-06802-7