COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

• the basic tags using in centering text
• indenting
• bold and italic text
• creating headings
• creating lists
• creating links and buttons as links
• E-mail links
• placing images, graphics and pictures on web pages
• adding color to text, to links and to the background of a web page.

WEB PAGE DESIGN - LEVEL TWO: (11 lessons)
This module will continue where Level One leaves off. Among the topics studied are:

• basic and advanced tables
• frames
• transparent images
• creating animations
• creating forms
• creating image maps

WEB PAGE DESIGN - LEVEL THREE: (8 lessons)
This module will concentrate on the more advanced features of HTML with a look at HTML 4.0, along with a thorough study of Cascading Style Sheets. Among the topics studied are:

• HTML 4.0 table enhancements
• HTML 4.0 form enhancements
• HTML 4.0 frames and other enhancements
• Cascading Style Sheets
• formatting text with styles
• laying out a web page with styles
• adding sound and music to your web pages

XHTML: (3 lessons)
XHTML is the current web standard and addresses the new browser technologies that is sweeping the market. Today web pages are being viewed in browsers through cell and mobile phones, cars, televisions, plus a host of hand-held wireless devices and communicators. XHTML also begins to address the need for those with disabilities (such as the blind and visually impaired) to access the internet. Thus web pages written in XHTML will allow them to be viewed on a wide range of browsers and internet platforms.

JAVASCRIPT MODULES:
You can make your web pages come alive with JavaScript! With JavaScript, you can extend HTML to do all kinds of things. You can learn to create animated text or graphics, change background colors, spew random phrases at the click of a button, work in a digital clock, create scrolling text in a box or on the status line at the bottom of your browser screen, show off your artwork in an interactive portfolio, change images without reloading the web page, etc., etc. There is virtually no limit to what you can do to spruce up a website!

JAVASCRIPT - LEVEL ONE: (6 lessons)

• introducing JavaScript, object oriented programming, Java versus JavaScript
• objects and methods, event handlers, Alert window, Confirm window, Prompt window, comment lines in a JavaScript program, Noscript element
• JavaScript colors - background and foreground colors. Includes a complete listing of all JavaScript colors
• event handlers: onFocus, onBlur, onClick, onReset, onSubmit, onAbort, onChange, onSelect
• variables, assignment statements, variable names, types of variables, declaring variables, list of reserved variable names, if ... else statements, comparison operators, logical operators, multiple conditions, rounding off numbers
• digital clocks, Date object
• functions
• interacting with forms

JAVASCRIPT - LEVEL TWO: (9 lessons)
This modules continues where Level One leaves off and takes a look at the more advanced features of JavaScript, including Dynamic HTML (DHTML) which requires a knowledge of JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets.

• WHILE and FOR loops
• window events
• controlling the status bar
• scrolling text
• onMouseOver and onMouseOut event handlers
• creating new windows and frames
• random numbers
• links in a Pop-up box
• right-click disabled (to prevent downloading of images)
• coloring the scrollbar
• JavaScript date
• introduction to DHTML
• layering objects with DHTML
• absolute and relative positioning
• 3D text
• DHTML animation
• Great transitional effects

WORLD WIDE WEB MODULE: (4 lessons)
This shorter module will concentrate on getting your website ready for submissions to the search engines. The main emphasis will be on:

• placing zipped and executable files on your web pages
• getting your website on the internet
• credit card service for your internet business
• understanding search engines. Contains the information needed to prepare a website to get the best advantage for top search engine positioning.

CGI/PERL MODULE: (8 lessons).
Filling out forms are becoming increasingly popular on the web. HTML cannot process this form data and so other methods to process this data are required such as CGI and Perl scripting. This module will introduce you to web scripting in Perl to process data collected in a form that a visitor or client fills out. You will learn how to process the form data in a CGI script created in Perl and have the results sent to an email address, to the browser screen, and to a data file on your host server.

WEB PAGE DESIGN SOFTWARE MODULE: (6 lessons)
Now that you are very familiar with HTML, it is time to study creating websites with the aid of software. In this lesson we will create fictional websites using the features of Flash, FrontPage, CoffeeCup and  Dreamweaver. Flash is a incredible program that allows you to enter a whole new world in web page design limited only by your imagination. Flash is extremely powerful, allowing you to create animations, including interactive animations that are out of this world! We will also study designing websites with the aid of web page development software such as FrontPage, CoffeeCup and Dreamweaver. With your expertise in HTML, you will be able to use both HTML and the software to your advantage and tweak your pages to just the way you want them.

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