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Website Design & Maintenance

Learn how to create web pages with HTML 4.0 and CSS. Design pages using forms, tables, frames and cascading style sheets (CSS). Develop the skills to optimize web pages and graphics for faster downloads. Learn how to buy a domain name, FTP and host your website and submit it to search engines. Maintain your website with ease.

The ultimate guide to Web site design, Principles of Web Design, Fourth Edition leads you through the entire Web site creation process, from start to finish, while developing and enhancing your HTML, CSS, and visual design skills along the way. You'll begin by learning about the Web design environment and the principles of sound Web design, continue to planning site layout and navigation, and progress to Web typography, colors and images, working with CSS, and more. Updated to include the latest Web design technologies and trends, this Fourth Edition features all-new sections on Web accessibility, standards-based coding, and CSS positioning, as well as technical updates and new screen shots throughout. Armed with valuable knowledge and plenty of hands-on activities, you will gain a solid understanding of designing successful, standards-based Web sites that are portable across different operating systems, browsers, and connection speeds.

Course Materials
  • Textbook: Principles of Web Design, Fourth Edition -
    ISBN 13: 978-1-4239-0194-5
    Table of Contents
    1: Understanding the Web Design Environment.
    2: Web Site Design Principles.
    3: Planning the Site.
    4: Planning Site Navigation.
    5: Working with Tables.
    6: Introducing Cascading Style Sheets.
    7: Web Typography.
    8: Graphics and Color.
    9: Using the Box Properties.
    10: Creating Positioned Layouts.
    11: Creating Framed Layouts.
    12: Working with Forms.
    13: Web Page Design Studio.
    Appendix A XHTML Reference.
    Appendix B CSS Reference.
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Dreamweaver 8

This is a temporary page for students taking the non-credit course through Community Education

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

Part of the Illustrated Series, this text covers the fundamental concepts of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 with a strong emphasis on design. Fully revised to include coverage of the latest version of Dreamweaver, this title takes students from learning all the basic functions to fully understanding how to get Web sites up and running.

  • Textbook: Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 - Illustrated Series -
    ISBN 13: 978-1-4239-2571-2 © 2008
    Table of Contents
    Unit A: Getting Started with Dreamweaver CS3
    Unit B: Creating a Web Site
    Unit C: Developing a Web Page
    Unit D: Formatting Text and Using Cascading Style Sheets
    Unit E: Inserting and Managing Images
    Unit F: Creating Links and Navigation Bars
    Unit G: Laying Out Pages with Tables
    Unit H: Laying Out Pages with CSS
    Unit I: Collecting Data with HTML Forms
    Appendix: Updating, Maintaining and Publishing a Web Site
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Electronic Commerce

Electronic Commerce, Seventh Edition covers emerging online technologies and trends and their influence on the electronic commerce marketplace. This edition highlights important security issues, such as spam and phishing, their role in organized crime and terrorism, identity theft, and online payment fraud. The pedagogical value of this new edition is enhanced through a fresh 4-color interior, and new and updated material that balances the technological with the strategic aspects of successful e-commerce.

  • Textbook: Electronic Commerce
    ISBN 13: 978-1-4188-3703-7 © 2007
    Table of Contents
    1: Introduction to Electronic Commerce
    2: Technology Infrastructure: The Internet and the World Wide Web
    3: Selling on the Web: Revenue Models and Building a Web Presence
    4: Marketing on the Web
    5: Business-to-Business Strategies: From Electronic Data Interchange to Electronic Commerce
    6: Online Auctions, Virtual Communities, and Web Portals
    7: The Environment of Electronic Commerce: Legal, Ethical, and Tax Issues
    8: Web Server Hardware and Software
    9: Electronic Commerce Software
    10: Security for Electronic Commerce
    11: Payment Systems for Electronic Commerce
    12: Planning for Electronic Commerce

Adobe PhotoShop CS2 & CS3

Course will emphasize basic composing and manipulation of various media images and typeface. Class exercises will utilize PhotoShop's primary image editing tools: tool box, selections, masks, layers, channels, color adjustment, transformation tools, filters and blending modes. Proper techniques for scanning images and importing the material into a design layout will also be taught.

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