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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 organisation 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

Organisations 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 organising 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

Related Courses

  • 489 JavaScript for Web Development
  • 548 Building Dreamweaver Web Applications
  • 502 Programming with .NET Introduction
  • 986 Developing Ajax Web 2.0 Applications
  • 542 XML Comprehensive Introduction
  • 194 Hands-On Visio: Effective Visual Solutions
  • 221 Writing for the Web
  • 296 Project Management: Skills for Success
  • 294 Influence Skills
  • 519 Introduction to PHP for Web Development

   Designing and Building Great Web Pages

Upcoming Dates

2 - 5 Sep, 2008
London
18 - 21 Nov, 2008
London
10 - 13 Feb, 2009
London
5 - 8 May, 2009
London
21 - 24 Jul, 2009
London

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Designing and Building Great Web Pages: Hands-On

 
Course: 487   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course 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 colour
  • Alignment
  • Proximity
  • Navigation
  • Focal point
  • Storyboard
  • Layout
  • Designing graphics
  • Working with photographs

Creating Graphical Content

Fundamentals of computer imaging

  • Rasterised 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

  • Utilising layers and selections
  • Creating special effects
  • Enhancing images using filters
  • Adding drop-shadow effects
  • Applying guides and rulers
  • Optimising 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
  • Utilising dynamic Web templates
  • Exploring Standards and Quirks mode
  • Developing pages in code, split or design view

Utilising 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

  • Utilising the Start panel
  • Editing and deleting local sites
  • Assigning assets
  • Creating library items and snippets
  • Building a customised Favourites panel

Creating pages in Dreamweaver

  • Customising 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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Designing and Building Great Web Pages: Hands-On Tuition

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

Course 487 Tuition

£ 1,695Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
£ 98010-Day Training Pass
£ 915Flex-Training Pass
£ 1,46010-Training Vouchers
£ 1,5605-Training Vouchers
£ 1,525Alumni Gold Tuition

Your Course Fee Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Lunch
  • Course Completion Certificate
  • FREE participation in the Learning Tree Professional Certification Programmes (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Flex-Training Pass
  • 3 Courses for £2 750
  • As little as £915
  • Savings as much as 50%
  • 3 courses in 24 months
10-Day Training Pass
  • Save as much as £770 per course
  • Any combination of courses
  • Only £2,450
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as £535 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as £1,460 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you will receive a personalised Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as £200 on each course you take in the following 24 months. Take just one course every two years, and you will be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year. You save 10%.
* Exact savings may vary depending on courses selected.

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 fee.

Enrolling is Easy and Flexible!

Enrol 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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