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Course Descriptions A web page on the internet has become one of the single most effective means for a company or individual to get information to other people around the world. Your web page needs to be user-friendly, informative, and convey the necessary information to your customers. If customers can't figure out how to use your site or get the information they want, they will leave and seek it out from another site. For these reasons, The Fort Collins Digital Workshop offers numerous classes on how to build an effective web site that targets your customers . We start with the basics and, in a short time, you will be an expert Web Page Designer. Our Web Design Track will help you design a Web site and learn the foundations of any Web page development. We will help you customize your Web Design training based on your experience and goals. Web Designer Career Track We have setup a web designer career track of courses in order to help you on your way to becoming a professional web designer. All web designers need to know these basic concepts and have a firm understanding of HTML, CSS, and webpage editor concepts. After completion of this track, you will be able to build professional websites and maintain them. Our instructors will work with you every step of the way to get you where you need to be. These core courses are:
Total Track Price: $599 HTML (or H yper- T ext M arkup L anguage) is the scripting language that powers the internet. The more knowledge a student has of the underlying language, the more effective all of the design work will be from the beginning. Click to see availability and details: WEB DESIGN WITH XHTML, HTML, AND CSS While using the Internet, you have probably encountered various attractive and useful websites, and you may have formed your own opinions of their capabilities and limitations. However, merely using the Internet will not give you an understanding of how these sites are created. In this course, you will examine the basics of foundational web technology and create your own functional web pages using markup languages such as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Click to see availability and details: DreamWeaver is the professional's choice for building Web sites and applications. It provides a powerful combination of visual layout tools, application development features, and code editing support. Additional features like CSS-based design, built-in FTP capabilities, and an easy-to-use editor's view make DreamWeaver one of the leader's in web design software on the market. DreamWeaver enables Web designers to easily create and manage any Web site. Click to see availability and details: FrontPage has emerged as one of the most user-friendly Web authoring tools over the past several years. FrontPage integrates well with all of the other Microsoft software and offers several useful views to design without knowing much HTML code or to hand code on your own. Database support, e-commerce functionality, and usage analysis are all great features that FrontPage has packaged into it. Click to see availability and details: Blogging has been part of the web landscape for over a decade and has matured into a ubiquitous mode of live communication. The power of blogging has been recognized by the business community, and canny marketers view it as a powerful weapon in their digital arsenal. Done well, blogging can bring myriad benefits to businesses of any size. Done badly, it can cause more harm than good. Central to the success of any business blog is a thorough understanding of the technology. These classes will give you a competitive advantage by helping you to create an engaging, effective, and well polished business blog. Click to see availability and details: Web Scripting Courses: JavaScript (JS) is one of the most popular Web scripting languages because of the universal usefulness of the produced code. JS adds more functionality and allows designers to create more interactive Web pages . It is highly recommended that a designer learns HTML and coding basics before trying to jump into a more challenging scripting course like JavaScript. Click to see availability and details: You have created static web pages using HTML. You now desire to use the features of PHP for creating dynamic websites. In this course, you will acquaint yourself with PHP by working with its common script elements, use the PHP script elements to create forms, address the stateless nature of HTTP by setting cookies and session variables in your scripts, and write the data entered in a form to a database. Click to see availability and details: VBScript is a powerful scripting language that is very common in e-commerce Web sites and popular with those programmers who already have some training in Visual Basic. VBScript gives Web site developers the ability to create more attractive and interactive Web pages that with just HTML alone. Click to see availability and details: HTML is to displaying information as XML is to defining information. They both are text-based, and they both consist of tags, elements, and attributes. However, XML allows users to structure and define the information in their documents. It allows users to create their own collection of tags, elements, and attributes as needed and, in doing so, a user can more accurately describe the physical contents within a document. Unlike HTML, with its finite collection of tags, XML allows users to create their own tags to meet their own requirements. Click to see availability and details: Beginners Web Courses: In this course, you will learn how to display Web sites, search for information effectively, communicate via instant messenger, correctly use your e-mail, acquire information from the Web, and maintain your Web browser to suit your needs. This is a beginner's class and is intended for those students with little or no experience using the Internet. Click to see availability and details: TECHNICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNET In this course, you will cover the brief history of the internet and its impact on business, the culture at large, how computers actually communicate across the internet, how Web servers and client software work together to enable users to browse information, the roles and responsibilities of Web site developers, the tools that they use and the general principles they follow when developing Web sites, some of the services provided by the Internet, and security hazards that come with connecting to the Internet. This is a beginner's class and is intended for those students with little or no experience using the Internet. Click to see availability and details: |
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