We will develop the concepts and technical skills required to design and build interactive websites, including hand-coding HTML, optimizing images, and creating eye-catching page design using HTML, tables, spacer GIFs, CSS, and JavaScript. You will also learn to use Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe Go Live to aid you in the design process and site management.
Objectives:

• Develop strategies for working with clients and production teams to create site maps, and both oral & written presentations to plan a professional website.
• Learn fundamental tools of working with HTML, image optimization, CSS, JavaScript, and other web design technologies, and gain a confident working knowledge of Macromedia Dreamweaver, and Adobe Go Live, Photoshop, and ImageReady.
• Plan, design, and build a portfolio-quality professional web site for a client.

Web Design Class - Syllabus

Establishing and Managing a Web Site

• Examine the major components of Dreamweaver
• Create an online site for class projects
• Create and upload a basic web page with Dreamweaver
• Format text with the list tools.
• Expectations for final project.

  Links, Links, Links

• Create text links
• Create e-mail links
• Set anchors and create links to anchors
• Create graphic links (buttons) and navigation bars
• Check web pages for broken or missing links
• Update changed links.

Getting Graphic

• Insert and edit graphics
• Investigate image properties
• Align graphics and text
• Investigate color tools and uses
• Control images in backgrounds and tables
• Create an image map
• Explore the relationship of Fireworks and Flash to Dreamweaver
• Create simple Flash animations.

 Tables

• Design a page with tables
• Insert and edit tables using templates
• Insert and align items in a table
• Use a table layout to organize a web page.

Libraries, Templates and Snippets

• Define and investigate a template, a library item, a snippet, and a style
• Create and edit templates
• Create pages from templates
• Create library items and add them to documents
• Create, edit, and use snippets
• Create, edit, and apply HTML Styles.

Cascading Style Sheets-CSS

• Answer the question, "What are cascading style sheets and why should I use them?"
• Create new CSS styles and style sheets
• Edit CSS styles
• Apply CSS styles from Dreamweaver files