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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

 

Proposed Courses for Fall 2010
F10-034- SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR BUSINESS
Running Sept 13 - Sept 29: 18 hours in 6 sessions. Monday and Wednesday afternoons 1:00 - 4:00

Does your business really need a Facebook or Twitter presence? Are your marketing e-mails going straight to spam? This class will introduce you to the basics of social networking and article publishing web services for business. Topics include: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN, Ezine Articles and other press release and e-mail services.
Prerequisite: Web Marketing and Design. Excellent file management skills.

F10-032.1 & 032.2- WEBSITE MARKETING AND DESIGN
Running Sept 13 - Sept 29: 18 hours in 6 sessions. Monday and Wednesday evenings 6:30 - 9:30
Running Sept 27 - Oct. 13: 18 hours in 6 sessions. Monday and Wednesday afternoons 1:00 - 4:00

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

F10-033 - WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT WITH DREAMWEAVER - LEVEL 1
Running Oct. 4 - Nov. 3: 30 hours in 4 sessions. Monday and Wednesday afternoons 1:00 - 4:00 pm

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 8: 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.

F10-035 - BASIC WEB PROGRAMMING - LEVEL 1
Running Oct 18 - Nov 17: 30 hours in 10 sessions. Monday and Wednesday afternoons 1:00 - 4:00 pm

The Dreamweaver classes teach you the foundations of building a static website. But, you may want special features on your site, like a product catalog, or an easy way to add new items to a list, or a photo that changes every time someone comes to your website. These functions are created with programming. This course will teach you the basics of how programming works and how a programming and a backend database is added to websites.
Prerequisite: Web Marketing and Design and Dreamweaver 1. Excellent file management skills.

F10-034 - SEARCH ENGINE POSITIONING
Running Nov. 22 - Dec. 1: 12 hours in 4 sessions. Monday and Wednesday afternoons 1:00 - 4:00 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.

F10-037 - BASIC WEB PROGRAMMING - LEVEL 2
Running Nov 8 - Dec. 8: 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.

 

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