Web Design
 
In this course, we will develop an entire web site for a fictional company. We will show you the basics of how to edit a web page with FrontPage, how to include advanced FrontPage components such as hit counters, reply forms, and discussion forums. We will teach you how to tweak your web pages using HTML. We will also teach you how to market and promote your web site to increase your traffic. We even spend a little time on advanced web topics, like JavaScript.

PreRequisite: Windows Basics, Word Basics, and Internet Basics. Students should have a good understanding of how to use Windows, and a computer in general. Students should also have some experience online with the Internet and the World Wide Web, although no previous Web design experience is necessary. Students should also how to use a word processor, like Microsoft Word, to create basic documents.

Topics Covered: Introduction to Web development, origins of the Web, basic definitions and acronyms, getting connected, steps for designing your Web, design considerations, building a FrontPage Web, the FrontPage interface, constructing your Home Page, character formatting, horizontal lines, bulleted lists, colors, saving your work, understanding Hyperlinks, linking pages together, linking to other Web sites, creating Mail links, comments, previewing your site in your Web browser, adding graphics to your pages, adding clipart, understanding graphics formats such as GIF and JPG, moving graphics objects around, capturing images from other web sites, creating your own graphics with Microsoft Paint. In this course, we will be building a complete web site for a fictional company: Pete's Pizza. At the end of this class, you will have a simple, 5-page web designed with some links between the pages, graphics, and other basic web features.

Understanding FrontPage Server Extensions, FrontPage components, hit counters, hover buttons, include page components, absolute v. relative hyperlink references, creating a navigation bar for your entire web site without using FrontPage's built-in navigation feature (which we don't like), scrolling marquees, search page, understanding tables, laying out your pages using tables for maximum control of positioning, resizing table rows and columns, borders, cell properties, table properties, inserting rows and columns, page templates, building a customer feedback form, creating a guest book, publishing your web to a web server, understanding frames, understanding themes, navigation bars and buttons, page properties, background colors, page titles. At the end of this class, we've really enhanced our web site. We've given it a sharper look and feel. We've adding a navigation bar so that changing hyperlinks for all of the pages in our web only has to be done once. We've added customer feedback forms and guest books forms. We've learned how to lay out our pages using tables.

Custom forms, creating a customer order form for our pizza place, creating a forms folder, adding text boxes, text box properties, using tables for form layout, drop down menus, drop down menu properties, check boxes, radio buttons, scrolling text boxes, form properties, saving the form data on the web server, sending the form data via email, confirmation page, page background graphics, watermarking graphics, using the same background across your entire web site, graphics hotspots, image maps, DHTML effects. In this class, we learn how to construct our own custom forms to gather information from our web site visitors, and to send that information back to us using Email, or saving the data to a file on our web server for use in a database.

Useful Web Wizards, the corporate presence web, the discussion web wizard, the import web wizard, HTML basics, HTML tags, understanding HTML, understanding META tags, description, keywords, refresh, publishing on the web.

 
  
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