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Web Authoring

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  • Course ID: WEBAUT
  • Duration: 2 days
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This course is designed to provide a detailed introduction to web design and development, HTML and related topics.

It is valuable for web developers, managers, designers and anyone involved with building, maintaining or supporting web sites.

On completion of this course, delegates will have gained a comprehensive knowledge of HTML together with the skills needed to develop and maintain well-designed web sites.

The course is largely practical with plenty of exercises to provide hands-on experience.

Prerequisites

Skills


  • The Internet: TCP/IP and non-HTTP facilities. HTTP and the Web: web pages and hyperlinks, browsers and servers. HTML and Web authoring tools. Finalising and publishing a website.
  • Basic HTML: Structure of an HTML document. Simple text-rendering tags. Images and other embedded attributes. Common tag attributes. General considerations of colours and backgrounds. <BODY> tag attributes: BGCOLOR, TEXT, BACKGROUND.
  • Tags commonly used in body text: Physical tags. Logical tags. Hybrid tags. <FONT> tag and attributes. Canvas-space tags.
  • Lists: Unordered lists, tag and attributes Ordered lists, tag extensions. Definition lists: <DL>, <DT>, <DD> tags
  • Links: Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). Anchor tags. Tags extensions. Relative and absolute URLs. <BASE> tag. Internal links.
  • Images: Image formats for the web: GIF, JPEG and PNG. <IMG> tag and attributes. ALT, LONGDESC, LOWSRC attributes. Extensions to the <BR> tag. Introduction to image maps.
  • Introduction to plug-ins and other embedded objects: <EMBED> tag and attributes, and <NOEMBED> tag <OBJECT> tag and plug-ins. Java Applets and <APPLET> tag. ActiveX controls IE <MARQUEE> tag.
  • Introduction to tables: Basic table tags. Other table-related tags. Table tags' attributes. COLSPAN and ROWSPAN attributes.
  • Introduction to frames: Utility. Frames and browsers. Frames tags. Borders and margins. NAMEing and TARGETing frames. Sizing frames and scrolling.
  • Overview of styles and stylesheets: The rising demand for style. Embedded styles. <STYLE> tag attributes. External stylesheets. Scripting examples used with styles.
  • Overview of other issues: Forms and CGI. Dynamic HTML techniques. Server-side processes.

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