Advanced Web Pages

If you want to build websites from the ground up, this is the course for you. You'll learn the latest programming languages with step-by-step instructions to help you build easy-to-use, interactive websites that work in any browsing environment.

6 Weeks / 24 Course Hrs

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Course code: wb4

Take your web design skills to the next level! Whether you want to work as a freelance web designer, join a web development team, or build websites for your organization, this course will give you the advanced tools you need.

In this course, you will learn to write HTML code for page content and CSS code for page styling. You'll learn the latest versions of the languages used to create modern websites. With the help of step-by-step instructions, you'll build interactive websites that collect information from visitors through email signup and feedback forms. In addition, you'll learn the latest and most effective techniques for presenting layouts and video that work in any browsing environment. Along the way, you'll explore aesthetics, color scheming, and accessibility in web page design.

What you will learn

Learn how to design web pages that are optimized and compatible with any browser and device
Discover the advanced tools you need to create modern websites that are both professional and attractive
Learn how to use HTML5 for content and CSS3 for style so your pages will appeal to visitors
Examine how interactivity, animation, and accessibility can transform your web page design

How you will benefit

Master cutting-edge techniques that take full advantage of HTML5 and CSS3
Gain confidence in your ability to design attractive web pages that appeal to an audience
Open the door to new career opportunities through your highly-applicable skills in modern web page design

How the course is taught

Instructor-Moderated or Self-Guided online course
6 Weeks or 3 Months access
24 course hours

Outline

If you want to take your web pages from okay to "wow," it's time to move up to Web 2.0. In this lesson, you'll explore the core elements of advanced web design: interaction, animation, and page design that's flexible and accessible to visitors on any device.

In this lesson, you'll enter the world of advanced web design by building your first CSS style sheet. When you're done, you'll link this style sheet to an HTML page and discover how you can instantly make changes to that page—or even to a thousand pages at the same time! In addition, you'll explore some key elements of web page design.

Your website text isn't just a collection of words—it's also a design element that can tell your visitors what you're all about! In this lesson, you'll find out how to specify the appearance of your text using your CSS style sheet. You'll learn about setting your font size, color, line spacing, alignment, background, borders, margins, and padding.

Links are a key part of any web page, and there's more to designing them than you might think. In this lesson, you'll learn how to create links that suit the purpose of your site, the technological sophistication of your audience, and the image you want to portray. In addition, you'll analyze a controversial question when it comes to link design: to underline, or not to underline?

In this lesson, you'll expand your horizons by learning how to format selected page content. After that, you'll take a big step into advanced design by discovering how to use class styles to design content boxes. In the process, you'll learn all about two powerful web design tools: div tags and span tags.

Each web page is unique, but three elements are almost universal: a container, a header, and a footer. In this lesson, you'll build these three elements by combining a new tool—ID styles—with div tags. In addition, you'll find out how to embed div tags within containers.

In this lesson, you'll take your layout to a new level by adding columns to your web page. You'll discover how to place multiple columns on a page, how to pad your columns, and how to create an attractive column layout that's easy to read. In addition, you'll make your columns interactive!

Do you use a mobile device to browse the web? More and more people do—and to keep them happy, you'll need to provide mobile-friendly content. But how can you do that, and still design a page that works on a big screen? This lesson will teach you how to create web pages that look different, but still great, on both full-sized monitors and mobile devices.

Web designers always need to be thinking about the future—and that future will include HTML5. In this lesson, you'll learn all about the advantages of this versatile markup language, and you'll add HTML5 elements to your own web page. In addition, you'll find out which environments currently support HTML5 and which ones don't.

A great video can increase your website traffic, sell your products, or even make you a superstar. But here's the big issue you'll face as a web designer: Not all video formats work with all browsers. In this lesson, you'll learn how to overcome that problem as you master simple tricks for embedding videos that will play in any browsing environment.

What do you need to know about your website's visitors—their names, their email addresses, or maybe even how they rate your site? In this lesson, you'll find out how to collect information like this (and much more) by adding forms to your pages. In these chapters, you'll build your own form, add form fields, and define where your collected data will go.

You've mastered it all—interactivity, animation, and accessibility—and you're ready to call yourself an advanced web designer. Now it's time to take the next step and reveal your site to the world. In this lesson, you'll learn how to upload your site to the web and how to check your spelling, links, accessibility, and browser compatibility. Here's the great news: You'll do it all for free!

Instructors & Support

Doug Sahlin

Doug Sahlin is a professional photographer, author, graphic designer, and instructor living in Venice, Florida. He was President of Superb Images, a wedding and event photography company for three years. He creates fine art images of the flora, fauna, and iconic landscapes and seascapes found on the west coast of Florida. Sahlin has written over twenty how-to books, many of them bestsellers on Amazon.

Instructor Interaction: The instructor looks forward to interacting with learners in the online moderated discussion area to share their expertise and answer any questions you may have on the course content.

Requirements

Prerequisites:

There are no prerequisites to take this course.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac.

Software Requirements:

PC: Windows 8 or later.
Mac: macOS 10.6 or later.
Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
A code editor.
Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

FAQ

Instructor-Moderated: A new session of each course begins each month. Please refer to the session start dates for scheduling.

Self-Guided: Your course begins immediately after you enroll.

Instructor-Moderated: Once a course session starts, two lessons will be released each week for the 6 week duration of your course. You will have access to all previously released lessons until the course ends. You will interact with the instructor through the online discussion area. There are no live sessions or online meetings with the instructor.

Self-Guided: You have 3 months of access to the course. After enrolling, you can learn and complete the course at your own pace, within the allotted access period. You will have the opportunity to interact with other students in the online discussion area.

Instructor-Moderated: The interactive discussion area for each lesson automatically closes two weeks after each lesson is released, so you're encouraged to complete each lesson within two weeks of its release. However, you will have access to all lessons from the time they are released until the course ends.

Self-Guided: There is no time limit to complete each lesson, other than completing all lessons within the allotted access period. Discussion areas for each lesson are open for the entire duration of the course.

Instructor-Moderated: Students enrolled in a six-week online class benefit from a one-time, 10-day extension for each course. No further extensions can be provided beyond these 10 days.

Self-Guided: Because this course is self-guided, no extensions will be granted after the start of your enrollment.

Reviews

David Karlins is an excellent instructor. He designed the Advanced Web Design course in a well thought out manner. His instruction was clear and also engaging. He responded to questions in the discussion area promptly and fully. I thoroughly enjoyed his course.

This course was very interesting and covered a lot of information I hadn't considered before.

The instructor was very funny in the course materials which made the lesson easy and fun to go through. Course material was well organized and easy to follow.

These are amazing lessons. They flow so well and are so easy to follow and understand.

This was a wonderful course. I learned very practical and beneficial skills. I think the instructor, David Karlins, is an excellent and effective instructor! Bravo!

I would highly recommend David Karlins and the Advanced Web Pages course. The information presented was interesting and well presented. I would not hesitate to take another class from Mr. Karlins.

great course for any one who want to start web design

This was a good course for web design fundamentals.

This course was written well and the instructor was knowledgable and friendly. This helped me better understand the new advances in web design as well as solidify some of the basics. Thank you!

I have enjoyed this class a lot and learned much. I really wanted 3 things from this class, creating working forms, embedding videos, and what HTML5 is all about. Embedding videos was pretty straight forward and Vimeo was easy to use. HTML5 worked in the newest gadgets and I guess that is the future. Image maps was totally new to me and fun to learn...Again, I have really had fun with this class. It has improved my skills and for an old lady (84), that is a great accomplishment.

Thank you. This was the first time I have taken an online class. I liked the pace and convenience. My absolute favorite chapter was on the mobile-media, using the 2 style sheets. Very cool.

I found this course to be a great introduction to designing with CSS and HTML5. I will be looking for other courses to take me to the next level in each of these…We had a great instructor. He really knows his business first hand and does a tremendous job of guiding us from the most basic tasks to the pro level of design.

David has targeted the main topics that propel you to the next advanced level of creating a great web page. His directions are clear and response to any question prompt and helpful. Thanks for the guidance and help.

This is the second course I have taken and I plan on taking a few more…The instructor is great, information is up to date and useful…I have spent hours trying to research the things taught in this course via Google and other means…The way these courses are laid out and presented make them an unbeatable value. Also, doing them in your own time is huge for people like myself with hectic schedules.

David Karlins has targeted the main topics that propel you to the next advanced level of creating a great web page. His directions are clear and response to any question prompt and helpful.

Mr. Karlins is a great instructor. He really made it easy to get through the class with good instruction and information. Many kudos to him.

I chose this course so I could upgrade my understanding and skill level and the course exceeded my expectations. I am very grateful to Dave Karlins for his excellent scope and guidance that always took into account a broad range of experiences while also approaching the material with an eye for humor and patience. I have already been spreading the good news about this course and this instructor--I am in the writing and editing business so a lot of my peers really need this kind of course. Thank you, Dave Karlins and ed2go. My career path has been repaved!

The course helped me to learn areas I was deficient in. For example, I needed to learn a little more about the layout of web pages, and this course makes an excellent presentation in that area. I also needed to learn about developing web pages for cell phones and tablets, and this course taught me a lot there. In addition, I learned about video and HTML5. In the beginning, I questioned whether I should be taking this course because the early lessons were review. As the course continued, I was very pleasantly surprised at the amount I learned. The entire course is clearly written. I think it's a great course, and I'm glad I took it.

I absolutely loved this course. I have taken five courses and this has been my favorite.

This course was outstanding. I feel as though Mr. Karlins concentrated on the practical and useful elements involved in web design. I believe that I walked away from this course with much more knowledge in what counts in web design. I appreciate and thank David Karlins for his time and knowledge and for creating such a cool course.

I have not done any web design or had any experience with html codes prior to this course and I found it extremely easy to follow. Thee is plenty of information available but not an overload. I love David's style of facilitating, sense of humour (I thought I'd be out of my depth with boffin-type references but this was not the case!) and was confident that if I needed further assistance I need only make contact and it would be answered promptly. I would highly recommend and will pursue these new skills further. Many thanks.