Moodle Online Course Materials

This class introduces students to the basics of the World Wide Web:

• what it is, how it works and
• what you have to do to publish your site on it.
• Students will learn how to write HTML from scratch,
• how to format images and text for basic page layout,
• how to organize the information on a site,
• where to go to secure space on the web and
• how to let people know that you are there.

With a plain text editor and the knowledge you get from this class, you will be ready to produce excellent web sites.

• Tables
• Framesets
• Text and image formatting
• Linking
• FTP (uploading to www)
• Working with color
• File management
• Forms
• Meta tags

Almost every site faces the problem of managing the look/feel of the interface.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) solve this problem by allowing site developers to easily manage and update style related elements (i.e. fonts, backgrounds, headers, links, etc.) without touching every page.

Topics covered:

* Using CSS to fine-tune web typography
* Using CSS to construct web page layouts
* Examples of adding ornamental style to your site using CSS
* Exercises in building menus, drop-down menus and other navigation systems
* Strategies for structuring your HTML efficiently
* Separating content from presentation (style) in web page creation to build "easy-to-edit" websites

Learn to use an industry-standard visual HTML editing tool to create interesting, dynamic web pages quickly.

• Generating site maps
• Templates
• Library items
• Snippets
• Adding Interactivity with behaviors
• Working with layout tables
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Editing graphics in Dreamweaver
• Creating & working with Flash elements
  
• Forms validation

In this course, students will learn how to create a personal or business website using Adobe’s DreamWeaver CS3. We will explore the core aspects of new site creation, editing, and maintenance. This includes learning how to read and work with HTML, creating a site plan and directory structure before coding the site and studying existing websites to understand how they work.

We will learn how to incorporate text, graphics, photographs, audio, video and animations in the site as well as use tables to control layout. The instructor will also discuss how to get a free web hosting account, how to register a domain name, and how to upload web files to a web server.

Prerequisites: Basic Mac Skills, Basic Windows Skills

Flash CS4 is the industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. With Flash CS3, creative professionals design and author interactive content rich with video, graphics, and animation for truly unique, engaging websites, presentations or mobile content.

This introductory class takes you through basic Flash from the ground up. Students will become familiar with the Flash interface and learn how to create animations, how to produce basic interactivity and how to publish their Flash movie to the web.