HTML & Writing Documents for the WWW

Introduction Course

Description
With the growing potential offered by the Internet and particularly the world wide web, many organisations are seeing the benefits that can result from having a good online presence. This course will give you a good grounding in the skills required to create professional websites using HTML.

Pre-requisites

• Understanding of computers and the ability to use them comfortably. The course is run on the Windows 95/98 platform but Macintosh users and users of other operating systems are welcome. (see information on windows course)
• Understanding of the Internet and the World Wide Web (see information on Internet course)

Topics

Introduction

About the manual

History of the World Wide Web

Web Page Concepts

What is HTML

Preparing to Start a Website

Design Considerations

Choosing an Editor

Creating Your First Web Page

How HTML Is Structured

Sections Of An HTML Document

Structuring Your Document

Logical vs Physical Tags

Text Formatting Tags

Lists

Hypertext Links and Images

The Anchor Tag

The Image Tag

Browser Specific Tags

Image Maps

Using Image Maps for Site Navigation.

Publishing Your Website

FTP

Getting Your Site Seen

Site Maintenance

Where to from Here?

Useful Resources

Related Courses

Advanced Course

Description
Created by serious web designers to train serious web designers. This course expands upon the skills learned in the introduction course to go beyond the basics. Upon completion, course participants will be able to create websites of a truly professional quality using the latest techniques and standards.

Pre-requisites
Before commencement of this course it is assumed that you:

• Have an understanding of how to use computers and Windows
• Are experienced in using the Internet and the World Wide Web
• Are proficient in the skills covered in the Introduction course including the following:
  • Basic structure of HTML
  • Text formatting / layout with the font tags, alignment tags and lists
  • Working with images & hyperlinks in HTML documents
    If you are not comfortable with any of the above it is recommended that you attend the HTML Introduction course first

Topics

Introduction

Tables

Using Tables in HTML

Page Layout with Tables

Frames

Description of Frames

Nested Framesets

Non-Frames Browsers

Hyperlinks in Frames

Inline Frames

Pros, Cons & Tips

Forms

About Forms

The FORM Tag

Form Elements

Cascading Stylesheets

Introduction to Stylesheets

Structure of Styles

Defining Styles

Stylesheet Classes

Stylesheet Attributes

Positioning With Styles

Graphics

Graphic Editors

Colour issues and "Browser Safe Palettes"

Pixel Depth

Transparent GIFs

Animated GIFs

Scripting & DHTML

A Look At JavaScript

Image Mouseover Example

A Look At DHTML

Other WWW Components

A brief discussion of some other web related technologies such as Java, Plugins, Sound and Video