Web Design and Development

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is used to render all web applications from the simplest to the most complex. Web development tools such as Dreamweaver and FrontPage allow users to design a web page visually and then convert the design into HTML statements. While an entire web page can be designed this way, situations that require customization or special functionality usually require the developer to work directly with individual HTML statements. So, it is important to know how HTML works. This course introduces HTML "building blocks" and allows participants to build a website step-by-step.

JavaScript is a programming language that allows you to add a significant amount of functionality to what would otherwise be a static web page. You'll learn the fundamentals of event-driven programming, how to implement loops and control structures, and how to add compelling interactive features to your web pages.

Attractive graphics can make a web page come alive. Photo editing and enhancing adds to a website's appeal. Create and edit customized images for use in web pages, online photo albums, web blogs and more. Learn how to create image rollovers, logos, and banner ads. Explore color theory, bandwidth considerations, and intelligent image utilization. The software for this course is Adobe Photoshop, the industry standard for image editing. Students will also work with a variety of image utilities available on the web. (You must have access to Adobe Photoshop in order to complete this course.)

Have you ever looked at a web page only to see confusing graphics, crowded text, and unattractive combinations of colors? Well-designed web pages let users find the information they want quickly and easily, and with the least amount of visual stress. This course will cover best practices for web layout and design enabling you to produce attractive, visually stimulating, and compelling web pages. No web developer's toolkit is complete without this knowledge.

Interested in creating e-commerce capabilities and taking advantage of social media concepts such as blogging, bookmarking, and other collaboration and communication functions on your website? PHP is an open source language available to facilitate the creation of these functions. Students taking this course will become familiar with PHP utilities and learn how to interact with a database to create these web applications. With PHP you can create dynamic and original web sites that can interact with databases and files, handle email, and do many other things that HTML cannot. At the end of the course, students will know how to utilize PHP to add simple scripts into their sites, as well as how to build custom scripts to use in their sites, like an HTML templating system, contact us forms, and shopping carts.

Learn how to use dynamic HTML (DHTML) to enhance your web pages with dynamic effects that include animations, event captures (such as keystrokes and mouse-overs), drag-and-drop effects, and much more. You'll learn fundamental DHTML concepts and explore the most important components individually in detail. At the end of the course, you'll have the opportunity to apply what you've learned to create dynamic web pages of your own.

Flash™ is part of Adobe Systems' suite of creative digital media products and a ubiquitous presence on the world's personal computers. It allows you to create high-impact, rich web content for display on virtually any computer regardless of the browser of platform being used. This course introduces Flash™ design and shows you how to include Flash objects on your web pages. You'll learn how to make your web designs even more compelling with moving images and other dynamic effects.

This course covers the process of planning and managing a website project through all the different stages: requirements, design, implementation, deployment and maintenance. Primary topics include planning, communication with team members, design documentation, risk management, audience analysis, test plans, and estimating of cost, size and schedule. Additional topics addressed include the website development process, configuration management, quality assurance, metrics, and continuous process improvement.