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Web Academy’ web design training courses have many objectives. These are the most important:
- To produce web site designers whose work far exceeds the industry standard
- To develop companies' in-house capability in business critical web technologies
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To enhance companies' strategic independence and profitability by adhering to official website design standards
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Suitable for
The course is intended for communications, marketing and design professionals who need to develop high-quality World Wide Web pages without external help.
Contents:
Overview of HTML
Brief history of HTML and XHTML
How the web works — clients and servers
Browsers and rendering
The Basics of HTML
- Hierarchical structure: elements (tags) and text
- Basic XHTML document structure
- Paragraphs
- White space and line breaks in XHTML
- Headings
- Phrase mark-up in XHTML
- Hypertext links
- Embedded images
- Lists
- Preformatted text
- Special characters in XHTML
- XHTML and Semantic marc up
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Simple design customization with CSS
- Relationship between XHTML/HTML and CSS
- Linking to a style sheet in a separate file
- Examples of common customizations
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Images
- Bitmapped images
- Types of image: GIF, JPEG, PNG
- Image type tradeoffs
- Creating images
Tables
- Using tables for tabular data
- Abusing tables for layout in XHTML
- Basic table structure
- Cells that span rows or columns
- Cell alignment
- Styling table cells
More CSS
- The box formatting model
- Borders
- Margins and padding
- Collapsing margins
- Formatting edges differently
- Background colors and background images
- Selectors
- Multiple selections
- Classes
- <div> and <span>
- Descendant selectors
- Text appearance
- Typefaces
- Font sizes
- Other font properties
- Leading
- Text alignment and justification
HTML and Scripting
- Server-side scripting: forms
- XHTML Form elements
- Client-side scripting
- JavaScript
- Examples
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Embedding Multimedia
- Image maps
- Embedding flash movies
- Graceful degradation
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