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Description
Our Online Web Design Courses are Affordable and Convenient
Our online Web design courses combine quality curriculum with the convenience of online delivery to make learning easier and more affordable than ever before.
Today's professional Web designers use XHTML in conjunction with CSS to create highly engaging, interesting Web sites.
The advent of XHTML and CSS have made writing code for the Web easier and more fun than ever before.
Our six-lesson online Web design courses teach you how to create Web sites using XHTML to mark up the structure of the document, and CSS to dictate how page elements are displayed.
Our online Web design classes are packed with hands-on examples designed to help you gain skills and confidence step-by-step, at your own pace.
You'll begin by mastering the basics of HTML markup. You'll also learn how to follow XHTML 1.0 specifications. Next, you'll learn to translate this structure into visual designs using CSS for typography and page positioning.
The classes also include online instruction in forms, dynamic content, and JavaScript-enhanced navigation.
All course assignments are accomplished with hand-coding.
Sites that adhere to accepted Web standards make use of certain designated markup, presentation, and scripting languages (like XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript). Our online Web dising courses provide a foundation in Web standards, with a focus on "best practices" established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and other organizations that set the standards for Web development.
Our online Web design classes are designed to help you build sites that are more accessible, cross-browser compatible, and much simpler to build and maintain.
Learn XHTML and CSS the easy, affordable way with online Web desing courses from Gatlin International. Simply click on the registration button to get started!
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Outline
LESSON 1 Intro to XHTML and CSS Lesson One launches the course with an overview of Web development today. How did current XHTML standards evolve, and what exactly is standards-compliant code? To help you understand today's technical environment, you'll explore the differences between HTML 4 and current standards, and examine the benefits of writing standards-compliant code. To get your feet wet, you'll learn how to create a valid HTML page, write basic HTML tags, and structure content on a page. Next, you'll explore how to add hyperlinks and insert images to HTML documents. To prepare for the assignment, you'll also learn how to organize Web site files and FTP them to the Web.
LESSON 2 HTML Tables HTML tables have a storied history on the Web. While their proper function is to display tabular data, designers since the early 1990s have been "hacking tables" for layout. Lesson Two will prepare you to create and edit any HTML tables. You'll learn how to structure an HTML table and customize it table by modifying rows, columns, dimensions, spacing, borders, and backgrounds. The main focus will be on setting up a data table for the optimal display on browsers and devices, but you'll also learn how to create old-school, table-based fixed and fluid layouts and incorporate image slices, if needed.
LESSON 3 XHTML, Standards, and Troubleshooting Lesson Three focuses on understanding the purpose, value, and requirements for coding your pages using XHTML. You'll learn the basic structure of an XHTML document and find out which important rules must be observed in XHTML. To make sure your pages are both technically and visually/functionally accurate, you'll learn guidelines for testing and validating Web pages, as well as how to fix broken links and images.
LESSON 4 Formatting Text with CSS Lesson Four shifts the focus to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). First, you'll learn three ways to associate CSS rules with an HTML document: inline, by internal style sheet, and by external style sheet. Then you'll examine the basic structure of CSS code and the rules for applying it. As you'll discover, CSS can be applied to specific parts of any HTML document using classes, IDs, divs, and spans. Next, you'll explore the fundamentals of setting and manipulating typography on a Web page. Not only is there a tremendous flexibility with type controls, but you can also easily style lists and links. The lesson concludes with a look at how to style page sections using borders, padding, and margins.
LESSON 5 Page Layout with CSS In CSS, div tags are used to mark up page sections called block-level elements that can be used to create everything from design details to multi-column layouts. Lesson Five explores this exciting contemporary use of CSS for layout and positioning.You'll learn how to position block-level elements relatively or absolutely on the page. Next, you'll explore how to control the visibility, clipping, and overflow of page objects. Essential guidelines for creating fixed and fluid one and two-column layouts are provided, as well as troubleshooting tips for CSS positioning.
LESSON 6 Extending XHTML and CSS Your Web design and development career does not end with learning XHTML and CSS. Most large-scale Web design projects today require page designers to integrate interactivity or dynamic content into their work, through languages like PHP or JavaScript. This lesson won't attempt to teach these scripting language, but it will give you an understanding of how XHTML page functionality can be extended with the addition of forms, dynamic content, or navigation enhancements. The lesson will point the way forward in your Web scripting studies as well as provide some guidelines on organizing your CSS for future projects.
Additional Info
- Languages
- English
- Course Length
- 60.00 hours
- Duration of Access
Students enrolled in our online Web design courses have access to the class for six months. During this period, questions or assignments may be submitted at any time to the instructor. Each course lesson requires an average of 10 hours of study time.
- Instructor
Christopher Schmitt is the founder of Heatvision, a small new media publishing and design firm. Christopher is an award-winning Web designer who has been working with the Web since 1993. Christopher earned a Masters in Communication for Interactive and New Communication Technologies while obtaining a graduate certificate in Project Management from FSU's College of Communication. As a sought-after speaker and trainer, Christopher regularly demonstrates the use and benefits of practical standards-based designs. Christopher is the Co-Lead of the Adobe Task Force for the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and author of numerous Web design and digital imaging books, including Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites, and CSS Cookbook. Christopher has also written for New Architect Magazine, A List Apart, Digital Web, and Web Reference.
- Prerequisites/Audience
Courses are designed for adult learners interested in building skills and portfolio for a design career. To take the course, students simply require a computer (PC or Mac), an Internet connection (56 Kbps modem or faster), and any required software. For courses with software requirements, computers must meet software manufacturers' system requirements.
- Requirements/Materials Included
To take our online Web design courses, you'll need an account with an ad-free Web hosting service (free services are available). An ad-free Web space allows students to upload assignments without interference from forced ads like popups or banners.
- Certification
3 CEU
Sessions College is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Certificate programs are accredited by the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools.
