Designing and Building Great Web Pages

Course details

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.

Course Objectives:

• 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 Outlines:

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