Creating Web Pages
Create
and post your very own Web site on the Internet in this extensive, hands-on, six
week workshop. First, you'll learn about the capabilities of the World Wide Web
and the fundamentals of web design. Then, with your instructor's patient
guidance, you'll plan the content, structure and layout of your Web site, create
pages full of neatly formatted text, build links between the pages and to the
outside world, and add color, backgrounds, graphics, tables, hot buttons, and
animation. You'll also learn critical and timely information on securing the
best possible location in search engine listings, and powerful no-cost or
low-cost web marketing strategies.
To enroll in this course, click the Enroll Now button below:
Requirements:
Internet access, E-mail, and the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser, familiarity with the Internet, and a computer of any type.
Syllabus:
All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two
lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course. You do
not have to be present when the lesson is released, but you must complete each
lesson within two weeks of its release.
A new section of each course starts on the second or third Wednesday of each
month. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space
the start date for each course at least two months apart.
| Week One |
| Wednesday - Lesson 01 |
| In this lesson, you'll learn where the web came from
and how it works. This lesson is important because you won't be able to
fully exploit this new medium until you develop a complete understanding
of its history and capabilities. |
| Friday - Lesson 02 |
| This lesson will help you get organized. You'll learn
the guiding principles of web design and how to choose the best
navigational structure for your site. In this lesson, you'll learn the
basics of HTML: the language of the web. You'll also get the opportunity
to build and view your very first web page! |
| Week Two |
| Wednesday - Lesson 03 |
| On this day, you'll learn how to jazz up your pages
by adjusting the alignment and indentation of your text. You'll also
learn how to work with different typefaces, type sizes and colors. |
| Friday - Lesson 04 |
| This lesson will teach you how to add a little visual
excitement to your pages by mixing a few graphics with your text. You'll
find out how to download images right off the Web without running afoul
of copyright laws, and you'll learn about two image formats supported by
the Web: GIF and JPEG. You'll learn where they came from, how they work,
and when it's best to choose one image format over the other. You'll
also learn how to properly tag your graphics so your site remains
accessible to all users, including people who cannot see images. |
| Week Three |
| Wednesday - Lesson 05 |
| Have you ever had to wait a long time for an
image-laden Web page to assemble itself on your screen? Today, you'll
learn some tricks you can use with your graphics to make your Web pages
seem to load faster. You'll find out how you can pre-specify your image
dimensions, essentially reserving space for large graphics before they
load. You'll also discover a few ways to optimize your images for the
fastest possible download time. You'll learn how to incorporate an image
into the background of your Web page, and you'll find out how to add
animated images to the pages you create. |
| Friday - Lesson 06 |
| This is perhaps the most important of all our
lessons. In most cases, the popularity of your web site will be directly
related to its position in the search engine listings. Your goal as a
web designer should be to engineer your site so that its pages get the
best position possible on any search results page. Today, we're going to
learn several strategies designed specifically to give you the best
possible search engine results. |
| Week Four |
| Wednesday - Lesson 07 |
| This lesson will teach you how to help people
navigate through all the pages of your site. You'll learn how to build
hypertext links and hot buttons that people can click on to glide
effortlessly from one page of your site to the next. You'll also learn
how to build links to your e-mailbox, pages on other sites, or to a
specific paragraph on one of your own pages. |
| Friday - Lesson 08 |
| This lesson will teach you all the HTML you'll need
to know in order to arrange your words, links and images into orderly
arrangements of columns and rows. |
| Week Five |
| Wednesday - Lesson 09 |
| Today, you'll learn about some of the more exciting
things that you can do with tables. You'll learn how to adjust the size
of the columns, rows and cells that make up your tables, change the
background color of each cell in a table, adjust the alignment of text
inside your table, and more. By the time this lesson is over, you should
be well-prepared to transform a humdrum page into something a bit more
visually exciting. |
| Friday - Lesson 10 |
| This lesson will begin with a brief introduction to
authoring systems, which can be used to help automate the Web-building
process. You will also receive my comprehensive HTML reference, a
powerful guide to the language you have learned in this course. You're
sure to refer to it again and again! |
| Week Six |
| Wednesday - Lesson 11 |
| By now, you should have a fully functional web site
complete with two or more pages of text, links, graphics, animation,
tables, a background, and whatever else you came up with. By now, I'm
sure you'll be anxious to put your labor of love on public display! This
week, you'll get that opportunity. But first, you'll need to select a
hosting service. When selecting a web host, I always ask nine very
important questions. You'll learn what those questions are in this
lesson. |
| Friday - Lesson 12 |
| Our last lesson will teach you how to transport your
web pages, images and other files across the Internet from your computer
to the host computer. Once your site is on the web, you'll need to let
people know that it exists. In this lesson, you'll learn several great
Web marketing techniques which require no investment other than your own
time. |
To enroll in this course, click the Enroll Now button below:
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