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Web Page Design > Creating Web Pages
 Create and post your very own Web site on the Internet in this extensive, hands-on, six week workshop. First, you'll learn about the capabilities of the World Wide Web and the fundamentals of web design. Then, with your instructor's patient guidance, you'll plan the content, structure and layout of your Web site, create pages full of neatly formatted text, build links between the pages and to the outside world, and add color, backgrounds, graphics, tables, hot buttons, and animation. You'll also learn critical and timely information on securing the best possible location in search engine listings, and powerful no-cost or low-cost web marketing strategies.
This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions. The instructor for this course will be Craig Power.
 Craig Power has worked in adult continuing education for more than 18 years. A UCLA graduate, he created custom accounting software for state and local governments; developed an online course delivery and marketing platform currently used by more than 1,500 colleges and universities in the US, Canada, and Australia; developed an interactive cellular biology video for the Los Angeles Unified School District; taught college-level information technology courses; started and grew a thriving small business; and served as an executive with a large academic publishing corporation.
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Requirements:
Internet access, e-mail, the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser, familiarity with the Internet, a computer of any type, and a plain text editor like Notepad or TextEdit which are standard on Windows or Mac computers.
Syllabus:
All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course. You do not have to be present when the lesson is released, but you must complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.
A new section of each course starts on the second or third Wednesday of each month. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.
| Week One |
| Wednesday - Lesson 01 |
In this lesson, you'll learn where the web came from and how it works. This lesson is important because you won't be able to fully exploit this new medium until you develop a complete understanding of its history and capabilities.
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| Friday - Lesson 02 |
This lesson will help you get organized. You'll learn the guiding principles of web design and how to choose the best navigational structure for your site. In this lesson, you'll learn the basics of HTML: the language of the web. You'll also get the opportunity to build and view your very first web page!
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| Week Two |
| Wednesday - Lesson 03 |
On this day, you'll learn how to jazz up your pages by adjusting the alignment and indentation of your text. You'll also learn how to work with different type sizes and colors.
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| Friday - Lesson 04 |
This lesson will teach you how to add a little visual excitement to your pages by mixing a few graphics with your text. You'll find out how to download images right off the Web without running afoul of copyright laws, and you'll learn about two image formats supported by the Web: GIF and JPEG. You'll learn where they came from, how they work, and when it's best to choose one image format over the other. You'll also learn how to properly tag your graphics so your site remains accessible to all users, including people who cannot see images.
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| Week Three |
| Wednesday - Lesson 05 |
Have you ever had to wait a long time for an image-laden Web page to assemble itself on your screen? Today, you'll learn some tricks you can use with your graphics to make your Web pages seem to load faster. You'll find out how you can pre-specify your image dimensions, essentially reserving space for large graphics before they load. You'll also discover a few ways to optimize your images for the fastest possible download time. You'll learn how to incorporate an image into the background of your Web page, and you'll find out how to add animated images to the pages you create.
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| Friday - Lesson 06 |
This is perhaps the most important of all our lessons. In most cases, the popularity of your web site will be directly related to its position in the search engine listings. Your goal as a web designer should be to engineer your site so that its pages get the best position possible on any search results page. Today, we're going to learn several strategies designed specifically to give you the best possible search engine results.
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| Week Four |
| Wednesday - Lesson 07 |
This lesson will teach you how to help people navigate through all the pages of your site. You'll learn how to build hypertext links and hot buttons that people can click on to glide effortlessly from one page of your site to the next. You'll also learn how to build links to your e-mailbox, pages on other sites, or to a specific paragraph on one of your own pages.
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| Friday - Lesson 08 |
This lesson will teach you all the HTML you'll need to know in order to arrange your words, links and images into orderly arrangements of columns and rows.
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| Week Five |
| Wednesday - Lesson 09 |
Today, you'll learn about some of the more exciting things that you can do with tables. You'll learn how to adjust the size of the columns, rows and cells that make up your tables, change the background color of each cell in a table, adjust the alignment of text inside your table, and more. By the time this lesson is over, you should be well-prepared to transform a humdrum page into something a bit more visually exciting.
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| Friday - Lesson 10 |
This lesson will begin with a brief introduction to authoring systems, which can be used to help automate the Web-building process. You will also receive my comprehensive HTML reference, a powerful guide to the language you have learned in this course. You're sure to refer to it again and again!
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| Week Six |
| Wednesday - Lesson 11 |
By now, you should have a fully functional web site complete with two or more pages of text, links, graphics, animation, tables, a background, and whatever else you came up with. By now, I'm sure you'll be anxious to put your labor of love on public display! This week, you'll get that opportunity. But first, you'll need to select a hosting service. When selecting a web host, I always ask nine very important questions. You'll learn what those questions are in this lesson.
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| Friday - Lesson 12 |
Our last lesson will teach you how to transport your web pages, images and other files across the Internet from your computer to the host computer. Once your site is on the web, you'll need to let people know that it exists. In this lesson, you'll learn several great Web marketing techniques which require no investment other than your own time.
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Student Reviews:
"I really enjoyed this course as it taught me the principles of HTML coding in an easy to understand step by step format. The instructor did a great job! I am also proud that I am 51 years old and going back to college!"
"I was VERY nervous about taking an online class! I was scared I would get lost and would never have my questions answered. I was SO WRONG! The discussion area was excellent. All of my questions were answered and I really felt like I had a "class" around me. I would DEFINITELY take another online class from this instructor!"
"Thank you for your efforts to teach me the "ins & outs" of Creative Web Pages. I really learned a great deal--much more than I had anticipated. I am amazed at all the material that was covered in such a short period of time. Many thanks for all your great help. Just as a "footnote" I am 75 years old and am very happy to be able to have these classes offered on-line."
"This course is outstanding and has opened many doors for me in a very short period! Thanks!"
"This is the first online course I've ever taken. The experience has been so rewarding that I will definitely take more. Thank you for a very enjoyable and educational experience! I look forward to the next class."
"This was an amazing first introduction to Web Design class for me. The site itself was easy to navigate, the examples were clear and helpful, the quiz answers added an extra level of explanation and the pace was perfect. I really look forward to the next class!"
"This was a very organized, well-prepared course. The ability for us to print the material for future reference was also very helpful. The lessons provided the new material and also the opportunity to reinforce the previous lessons. Thanks."
"This was my first online class and I found it most enjoyable. I learned a lot in 6 weeks, much more than I had anticipated. I will be continuing on to the Web Design II class and other classes in the future. As a homeschool mom, this was very convenient for me since I am not able to go to a class on a campus. Thank you!"
"This was one of the best classes I’e ever taken. It was very informative and yet presented in such a clear and crisp fashion that it was easy to learn."
"This was very helpful to me as I had absolutely no knowledge of creating web pages before this class. It makes you want to learn more!"
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