Adobe InDesign, Part 1
Instructor: Ed Wiser

this is the first 6 weeks of a 12 week introduction course to Adobe Indesign. It will fully cover Indesign.
Week one: basic tools.
Week two :Page setup and lay out.
Week three: Illustration and drawing
Week four: Objects
Week five Typography
Week Six Text processing.
The course is designed to give you an in depth understand of how to use InDesign which is fast becoming the industry standard for page layout applications.

CSS, introduction
Instructor: Debbie Miller

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple way to add style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing and more) to your web pages. CSS works with HTML to control the way the content on your web site is presented in your browser. In this class, we will use a practical, hands-on approach to learning the basics of CSS while actually building a multi-page web site.

Prerequisites:

Students much have good understanding of HTML

Designing Web Documents using HTML, XHTML and CSS
Instructor: Donna Sellinger

Create web page content using hypertext markup language (HTML), extensible HTML (XHTML) and cascading style sheets (CSS). For those whose main priority is information content rather than technology management, gain experience formatting documents and other vital concepts on (X)HTML and (X)HTML-related topics and content presentation with CSS using a simple text editor.

Prerequisite:  Basic knowledge of a web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, Opera, etc) that's not more than 3 years old, basic knowledge of your computer's operating system, and using the Internet. You must know how to download and open zip files.

DreamWeaverMX, Level 1
Instructor: Ed Wiser

This beginners course is aimed at new users of Dreamweaver who want to learn how to use the software to design web sites.

This class will give you a complete overview.

Week 1 Opening Dreamweaver: what all the different palettes do.
Week 2 Layout and tags
Week 3 setting up how your page will look.
Week 5 Images and Anchors on your page.
Week 6 uploading your webpage to the internet.

Expression Web Developer- Intro
Instructor: Debbie Miller

Expression Web Designer is Microsoft's new web editor tool for building and enhancing web sites with new design elements, such as cascading style sheets and personalized task panes.

It has been released and a trial can be downloaded now. Come join us in learning your way around EWD. It's absolutely jam packed with features you will want to try out.

Expression Web Designer gives you all the tools you'll need to produce high-quality standards-based Web sites. Specialized task panes, and tool bars that allow you precise control of page formatting and layout.

The new design tools give you greater flexibility to create sophisticated looking websites and creativity to help bring your web sites to life with remarkable CSS design layouts.

Get a JUMP START NOW in learning to navigate and explore Expression Web Designer.

Prerequisites: The Student needs to have Expression Web Designer installed before the class starts.  You can download a 60 day trial at  http://www.microsoft.com

For homework requirements the student will need to have in advance before class starts, an active domain name and web hosting account and be prepared to upload any required homework to their site.

FrontPage 2000/2002
Instructor: Debbie Miller

This course will cover the fundamentals of working with Microsoft FrontPage 2000. The classes will be done in FrontPage 2000 although users of FrontPage 2002 can apply some of the same principles. We will cover site management, the organization of your web site, making sub-webs, page editing and publishing.

Prerequisite:
Students need to have some knowledge of HTML.
Have a web site that supports FrontPage extensions so that you can publish homework when given.

Front Page Themes, Intro
Instructor: Debbie Miller

This class is on Hiatus

Avoiding the Canned Look

Students will learn to work with FrontPage themes, how to modify and create new ones. Students will also learn to make your own page template and web templates. You do not need to settle for the canned look. Be creative.

Prerequisite:
Students need to have a working knowledge of FrontPage. Have a good graphics program and a web site with FrontPage server extensions so that you can post homework.

Course will Cover:

Themes - What are they?
How to Modify, create New
Graphic Specifications
Making and Saving a Page Template
Shared Borders vs Tables
Using a Theme and Page Template together
Making your own custom Web Set

FrontPage 2003, Intro
Instructor: Debbie Miller

This course will cover the fundamentals of working with Microsoft FrontPage 2003 and will detail most of its new features. During this six-week course, students will build, edit, and publish a web site while learning to integrate and use many of the FrontPage tools. My goal is to enable students to be comfortable with the program, use many of the time-saving features, and build pages without the "code bloat" that has been criticized in previous versions of FrontPage.

Prerequisite:
Some knowledge of HTML is helpful.
Have a web site that supports FrontPage extensions where you can publish your web each week as we progress through each week's lessons.

The link to order the trial CD is: FrontPage 2003 Demo (DO NOT INSTALL until the class begins)

FrontPage 2003, Level 2
Instructor: Debbie Miller

This is an intermediate level of FrontPage 2003 course that takes the student into deeper levels of working inside FrontPage 2003. This class covers working with some of the programs "Newer Features", along with learning how to work with Tables and Table Cells are explored. Working with and using third party scripts including FrontPage Add-ins are also just a few of things covered.

Prerequisites: Familiarity with your computer and operating system. A web site is necessary for students who wish to post work on-line. Students enrolling in this course should have a good understanding of the basic features of FrontPage 2003, and a good comfort level working in the program. Taking the FrontPage 2003 Introduction Class is required IF you do not have a comfort level in working with FrontPage 2003.

PHP, intro
Instructor: Sheila Fenelon

This course is an introduction to the programming language PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is powerful language that was designed for the Web. We will start with variables and syntax and how to embedded PHP in an HTML page. We then quickly move to interacting with a web server through the use of forms. You will learn how to process form input and generate new HTML pages. We will write some simple scripts along the way including a working form-to-mail script. By the end of the course the student will have a working knowledge of PHP, be able write their own scripts, and be comfortable reading and modifying the scripts of others.

Prerequisites: Knowledge of HTML, including forms, and access to a web server with PHP4.

JavaScript, intro
Instructor: Charlene Russ

JavaScript is a form of web scripting designed to provide user interaction and information processing on web pages using minimal coding requirement. As a remarkable easy language to learn, this basic level course is designed to introduce the novice to intermediate computer user to the JavaScript language, and focuses on creating user interactivity within HTML pages. This Object Oriented Language is known for creating a high level of interactivity with minimal coding, and is fairly simple to learn.

We will begin with an overview of Javascript, describe its applications and compare it to other web programming languages. Flash integration with Javascript will also be addressed throughout the course. Topics we will be covering include, Incorporating Javascript into an HTML page, Simple Scripting, Time and Date, Data Variables, Writing Output, User Prompts, Data Types, and Navigation with Javascript.

Objective of this Course: To provide the student with an enjoyable learning experience complete with personalized instruction.

Course Requirements:

Internet and Email Access
Text Editor Such as Notepad or Textpad
Ability to send attachments,
or webspace to post assignments
Netscape 6 or later
Internet Explorer 5.5 or later

Preferred but not mandatory
HTML Editor ( *Dreamweaver MX has some nice features)
Flash 5 or Flash MX
Printer Access (printing out the lessons can be very helpful)

SEO-The Write Way
Instructor: Sharon & Roy Montero

As the name of this course implies, you will learn how to optimize Webpages the "WRITE" way for the search engines.

That simply means by "writing" your Web copy correctly and not by trying to "trick" the search engines as so many have attempted to do, and all with little or no success.

Since Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is NOT an exact science and the search engines do not make their algorithms public knowledge (but keep them
as secretive as possible), many Webmasters new to SEO have inadvertently read the advice of or listened to the advice of those so-called SEOs who may not have really understood the harm that could be caused by following their advice.

We will always be completely upfront and honest with you and always backup all of our studies and research with as much "proof" as possible, so that
you will walk away with a deep set knowledge that each and every one of the SEO techniques that we teach you, will never, ever, get you into any trouble with the search engines, such as being penalized or banned.

Achieving a high ranking for any Webpage is really not that difficult, but what is difficult, is choosing the correct keywords to optimize your Webpage for and then also knowing just how difficult a task it will be to reach the #1 ranking.

Therefore, we will teach you how to evaluate your competition before you start optimizing your Webpage, so you will know just how easy or how difficult it will be to rank #1.

You'll learn which keywords you should optimize for (as well as which keywords you should not optimize for and why) and then we'll teach you exactly where to place them.

SEO is easier than you may think, because you may have been privy to those who would like to make it sound much more difficult than it really is. Come learn the art of SEO with us.

Prerequisites: All that is required is a deep passion and an intense desire to learn. A working knowledge of HTML is helpful but not required.

SQL for Database-Driven Web Sites
Instructor: Rudy Limeback

A database-driven Web site lets you manage the contents of your site using a database instead of HTML files. Your site still delivers HTML to the browser, but the HTML is assembled dynamically, using page templates combined with database content. Immediate benefits are simplified site maintenance and automatic generation of site components like the site map, navigation, and search.

This course is geared to all databases, all languages. You can be using ASP and Access, ColdFusion and MySQL, PHP and Sybase, or whatever combination you like. This course covers concepts useful to all database-driven Web sites.

Prerequisites:
Knowledge of HTML and Web design
An installed and working database server, to take advantage of the exercises.
Familiarity with concepts such as tables, queries, joins, and keys; some SQL experience is advised.

NOTE: This course does not cover database installation. This course assumes that you have a database server up and running and responding to queries executed from whatever web scripting language you are using, by Week 2 at the latest. This course covers what kinds of queries you need for a dynamic Web site, but not the technical details of how to run them.

Course Outline
Week 1
How a dynamic Web site works
Week 2
Displaying and maintaining entries
Week 3
Many-to-many relationships: Entries and Authors
Week 4
Navigation, Site Maps, Breadcrumbs
Week 5
More Many-to-Many: Categories, Keywords
Week 6
Search