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Course Description

Building Websites

Course Code: G210
Recommended Duration: 2 Days

Benefits - Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

Layout a website homepage
Choose a background (solid color, gradient, image) for all or most pages
Create borders and frames around pages
Include copyright, privacy, and version information
Choose and implement a navigational style
Use server-side includes to provide common sections of pages and update information
Manage pictures using image-processing software, thumbnails, JavaScript, and AJAX coding
Use document.write to create printable versions of pages
Use tables for displaying information
Note: this course is being created and its structure, duration, and content may change

Audience:

Anyone who needs to create or maintain a website, using a Windows PC.

Prerequisites:

Familiarity with major web components (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM as covered in our course G200, "You and HTML and the World Wide Web"

A course narrative

After one day you can construct a home page with a pleasing color scheme, page layout, and navigation design

After two days you can manage images and use tables for such purposes as trip itineraries, organized links, and structured information

Spread throughout the course are tips on design, testing, and debugging your work.

Exercises

There are 10 hands-on exercises.

Notes

The student materials include 300+ page notebook and a USB memory stick with supporting files for all the labs

These are reference quality materials with summaries and a comprehensive index