This course covers fundamentals of HTML and will take you through the Process of creating a web site. Prior web site design or HTML knowledge is not needed. Each student will get hands-on experience with HTML coding (No Wizards, MS FrontPage, or Dreamweaver). Students will be using Notepad and Internet Explorer Browser to create a web page. Materials or books are not required or used since this is a hands-on course. Each student will be required to build a 3 - 5 page custom web site using the following HTML tags:

Planning and Setting up a web design template and environment, comments

     Directory Structure
     Sitemap and Navigation Structure
     Required Programs and how to use them
     Setting Body tags attributes

HTML basics

     How browser renders HTML
     Required Tags

Links

     Relative Path vs. Absolute Path
     External Link
     Email Link
     In page Link

Text Formatting with HTML

     Heading Tags
     List Tags
     Text Alignments
     Font Tags
     Break Tag vs. Paragraph Tag
     Special Characters
     Colors and backgrounds

Web Graphics

     Gif Vs JPG file format
     Using images
     Images and Text alignment.
     Adjusting the Space around images
     Images and links

Tables

     Using tables to align web page contents and images.

Miscellaneous Tags

     HR Tag
     Browser compatibility Issues
     New Tags in HTML 4.0 Vs. Deprecated Tags in HTML 4.0
     Industry Standard programs for web design: Adobe, MM, others

Cascading Style Sheet Vs. HTML tags

      Introduction to Cacating Style Sheet

Transferring your information on the internet

      Web Server Platforms
      Web Hosting companies
      Using FTP programs.

Who should take this Class?

People wanting to take part in maintaining a company website. People interested in building their own personal or business web site and post it online. People who are curious about web design and its functions. People who want to learn pure HTML coding and web site design without using any wizards, such as Microsoft Front page, Macromedia Dreamweaver, etc.

Each student will get hands-on experience with advanced HTML coding, real world use of HTML coding and Cascading Style Sheet 2. Introduction to Microsoft Active Server pages will also be covered as well as techniques to get better listed on Search Engines and how to embed a JavaScript. Students will use the Notepad and Internet Explorer Browser to design the site. The pre-requisite to this course is Web Design I or equivalent course or experience. Materials or books are not required or used since this is a hands on course. Each student will be required to build a professional commercial web site using all but not limited to the web technique used in class. This course is 100% hands-on and covers the following topics:

Planning and Setting up a web design template and environment, comments

     Web Site Blueprint (Site Structure)
     Directory Structure, absolute path.
     Using a Meta Tag to get Listed
     Eliminate Browser Offset
     Designing for different Monitor Resolutions (fixed Vs. Dynamic)
     Creating a Master or Global Page Template
     Creating more Private Templates for Navigations, Content Body, Footer
     Creating a Cascading Style Sheet File

Tables

     Creating the Web page skeleton.
     Aligning Images and Text
     Creating White Spaces using a Gif file spacer
     Borders using in-line CSS 2
     Using images as backgrounds and in-line CSS2
     Creating layer effects, just by HTML
     Using Nested Table to create a border structure content body
     Using Colspan and Rowspan attributes

Cascading Style Sheet

     Link Font Colors, MouseOver
     Absolute image positioning
     Body Text Font colors
     Creating Header Layer Effects
     Body Scroll

Usability

     Dos and Don'ts
     Site Navigations
     Color Balance
     White Space
     Images Size
     Font Balance

Forms

     Form Elements and their use and attributes

Introduction to Search Engines

     Use of Meta Tag to get listed
     Yahoo Vs. Google, etc
     Search Engine Submission

Miscellaneous

     Frames
     Creating a Slide Show with Meta Refresh
     Designing a Splash Page with Meta Refresh

Who should take this Class?

People who are interested in web development. People interested in how to design professional commercial web sites from scratch. Graphic designers who would like to enhance their web development skills. People currently maintaining web sites who want to enhance their skills with the topics covered in this class.