Seminar on Web Design and Development

Using Freeware or Shareware Development Tools

2 Week Seminar - Monday to Friday with a week break.

Week Two - :

Monday
 9-10:15  Review of assignments and constructive suggestions. Open Forum
Class discussion.
10:30 - 12:00 Coding for  Interactive Forms. Using ftp upload your pages to
a server.
1:00 - 2:30 Use of Frames. Check out Frame type of Web Site. Pro's and Cons.
2:45 to 4 PM Construction of Frame based pages - hands on workshop.

Homework - Rewrite your own web pages and include an interactive form on one
page.

Tuesday
9-10:15 Review of Assignment and question and answer period. Using Email
effectively.
10:30 - 12:00 Color codes and uses in backgrounds , tables, and gif's.
Changing color schemes. Suggestions for use of color. 216 Web safe palette.
Go to Webmonkey and download web safe palette.
1:00 - 2:15 Using Frames and Color ..
2:30 - 4:00 Workshop on Design choices - tables vs frames - use of color in
cells and in navigation. Types of web sites that use harsh colors to make an
effect. Standard background colors and use of images as backgrounds.

Assignment - design a web page using frames and different colored
backgrounds.

Wednesday
9:00 - 10:15 Review of assignment and recommendations.
10:30 - 12:00 Web Site optimization - Size ? Fold ? Search engine optimized?
Navigation is simple and no dead links.
1:00 - 2:30. Internet workshop on web development. Using online resources to
improve your web site. Java script, Perl script .
2:45 - 4:00 - Animated gif's using a gif animation program .. Hands on. Make
an animated gif from scratch ( example - dive. and blue lightning band.

Assignment - On your web pages insert a javascript of your choice. Also use
the animated gif made this afternoon.

Thursday
9:30 - 10:30 Review of last nights homework . Complete review of course so far.
 Question and Answer session.
10:45 - 12:00 Check out two web sites A List Apart   and Web Pages that Suck 
for design information and for long term reference. After checking out these
 sources review your web pages looking for :

1) Obvious Design errors
2) Good Design
3) HTML errors - use Dr. Watson Html Checker
4) Congratulate yourself or go back to the drawing board and correct
mistakes on your project site.

1:00 - 2:00 Outside links to your site. Links to outside sites. Web Rings,
2:15 to 3:15 Registering your site with Search engines. Yahoo, Alta Vista,
Msn, Google
3:30-4 PM Other ways to create traffic to your web pages.
Assignment - Set up a  links page on your web site. Send email asking for
return links.

Friday
9:00 to 10:00 Review of last assignment.
10:00 - 11:00 Commercial uses of the web. Ecommerce solutions.
11:00 - 12:00 Setting up credit card acceptance.
1:00 - 2:00 Final workshop . Finish your site and ftp it to your server.
2:00 - 3:00 Site Critique by instructor and fellow students.
3:00 - 4:00 Granting of Certificates and associate membership in HTML
writers guild..

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