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406-549-8765.

Recommended Courses

The following courses will also help you with your web development:

Photography and Photoshop Classes
taught by Kathy Eyster and Jeremy Flesch

Web Development Course
Pre-requisites

  • Using a browser to find web pages.
  • Creating a new file (if you can do this in Microsoft Word, that will do it!)
  • Deleting a file
  • Creating a folder – you should be able to do this in Windows and in the Save type dialog boxes in all Windows programs.
  • Saving a file to a specific folder.
  • Renaming a file or folder both in Windows and in the file dialog boxes.
  • Keyboarding skills - expect to have to type!
  • If you use a Mac: you are welcome to bring your Mac laptop to class. However, the web development classes are not structured to help you create folders, find your files, save your files or move your files on your Mac. You MUST have these skills before you take the web development courses. We have received a number of complaints from other students about their own loss of class time for students needing this type of help.

SELF-TEST
There will not be time in these courses to teach these skills. If you need to brush up on them, please take the Introduction to Personal Computer course before enrolling in the Web Development Series courses!

Skills Classes Recommendations:

  1. Introduction to Mac Computers: F09-24
  2. Getting Started with Mac OS X: F09-25
  3. Mac Troubleshooting Workshop: F09-30
  4. Touch Typing on a PC: F09-1
  5. Getting Started with Windows XP: F09-4
  6. Getting Started with Windows Vista: F09-5

 

Courses for Winter 2010

W10-032 - Web Troubleshooting Workshop
.2 Running March 9: 3 hours in one session. Tuesday evening 6:30 - 9:30

Website development can be challenging and frustrating when you just can't quite figure out why something doesn't work the way you want it to. The Website Troubleshooting Workshop is a great place to get personalized assistance on your website projects.
Prerequisite: Excellent file management skills and Dreamweaver 1


W10-003.5 -- BEGINNING COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS
Running Feb 16 - March 23: 18 hours in 6 sessions. Tuesday afternoons 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.

Welcome Smurfit graduates! I'm looking forward to sharing computer skills with you! This class is full.

W10-027 - DREAMWEAVER 2
Running March 10 - 29: 18 hours in 6 sessions. Monday and Wednesday afternoons 1:00 - 4:00 pm

Continue to refine your website with a review of nested table design, CSS layers, Dreamweaver templates and library items for more efficient site construction and maintenance. You will also learn how to build forms and use the JavaScript features built into Dreamweaver.
Prerequisite: Web Marketing and Design and Dreamweaver 1. Excellent file management skills.

W10-031 - WEB DEVELOPMENT WITH CSS
Running March 1 - March 17 : 18 hours in 6 sessions. Monday and Wednesday 6:30 - 9:30 pm

Designing and building your website with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) has many benefits over table construction. You may already be using CSS for font formatting but not for structure. CSS is a whole new way of thinking about the structure of your website and your individual web pages. This class will give you a basic understanding of the CSS design process. This class starts with the assumption you are already familiar with the basic Dreamweaver interface skills, as covered in Dreamweaver 1. This class will go the next step to develop a file structure and design features for a simple CSS website.
Prerequisite: Web Marketing and Design and Dreamweaver 1. Excellent file management skills.

Proposed Courses for Spring 2010

Thinking about getting a website and want to know more about it? Have a website that's not doing what you expected and need to know why? Thinking about going into the web design business and wonder what it takes? This is your class!

This course will survey the areas you need to know about websites: how it reaches your viewers; what makes a good website design; how to get visitors to your website; how to find the right web developer; and the technical areas you should understand and manage, whether you build it or someone builds it for you.
Prerequisite: Excellent file management skills

S10-C06 - WEB DEVELOPMENT WITH CSS
Running May 10 - June 7: 24 hours in 8 sessions. Monday and Wednesday 1:00 - 4:00 pm
There is no class on Memorial Day!

Designing and building your website with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) has many benefits over table construction. You may already be using CSS for font formatting but not for structure. CSS is a whole new way of thinking about the structure of your website and your individual web pages. This class will give you a basic understanding of the CSS design process. This class starts with the assumption you are already familiar with the basic Dreamweaver interface skills, as covered in Dreamweaver 1. This class will go the next step to develop a file structure and design features for a simple CSS website.
Prerequisite: Web Marketing and Design and Dreamweaver 1. Excellent file management skills.

S10-C07 - SEARCH ENGINE POSITIONING
Running May 10 - 19: 12 hours in 4 sessions. Monday and Wednesday evenings 6:30 - 9:30 pm

This class will take the Web Marketing topic from the 3rd class in Web Marketing and Design and develop the topics. We will spend a significant amount of time analyzing your stats from Google Analytics; so, the first step is installing Google Analytics on your site and learning how to manage Google Analytics account. This is your chance to refine your title tags, your alt tags, your content to match your marketing goals very specifically.
Prerequisite: Web Marketing and Design and Dreamweaver 1. Excellent file management skills.

DREAMWEAVER 1 - Introducing a new web development Instructor: Brian Lombardi
Running May 4 - June 3: 30 hours in 10 sessions. Monday and Wednesday 6:30 - 9:30 pm
For previous students, here is the original syllabus from Nora's classes with links to handouts

The purpose of this class is to teach you the basics of web site construction with Dreamweaver. Learn and use the principles of basic web design using Adobe Dreamweavern CS4: HTML, the Dreamweaver Interface, uploading and downloading, text formatting, tables, web graphics and creating hyperlinks. Although everyone learns at their own rate, the goal of this class is to build a front page for your web site.

This course is the next step after Web Marketing and Design. It is very important that you have excellent file management skills before you take this class. It is also important to understand the file structure of a web site; basic web server issues; the elements of a web site that affect your search engine compatilibity; and the basic structures of web pages before you take this class. These topics are discussed in the prerequisite class Web Marketing and Design.
Prerequisite: Web Marketing and Design. Excellent file management skills.

S10-C09 - WEB PROGRAMMING 2
Running May 26 - June 28: 30 hours in 10 sessions. Monday and Wednesday evening 6:30 - 9:30 pm

Prerequisite: Web Marketing and Design, Dreamweaver 1 and Basic Web Programming. Excellent file management skills.
Web Development with CSS is helpful, as you design your forms, but the purpose of this class is to make it work, not to make it pretty.

S10-C10 - DREAMWEAVER 2
Running June 14 - June 30: 18 hours in 6 sessions. Monday and Wednesday afternoons 1:00 - 4:00 pm

Continue to refine your website with a review of nested table design, CSS layers, Dreamweaver templates and library items for more efficient site construction and maintenance. You will also learn how to build forms and use the JavaScript features built into Dreamweaver.
Prerequisite: Web Marketing and Design and Dreamweaver 1. Excellent file management skills.

 

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