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Your comprehensive lessons are clear and well-organized; easy to follow, yet challenging and stimulating at the same time. Each lesson begins with an introductory note from your instructor, plus a preview outlining the subject matter and study objectives.

Next comes the reading assignment from your beautifully illustrated textbook, lesson book or supplemental references. Hands-on tutorials and practice exercises help reinforce essential procedures. Then, turn in your online exam for the lesson, whenever YOU are ready.

You’ll receive the following bonuses, including with your training at no extra cost:

• Web Page Design: A full-color, nicely illustrated text that teaches you in a down to earth format, making learning Web design fun.
• New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages With HTML: You’ll learn the process of creating well designed, easily read Web pages with the help of this excellent two-part tutorial textbook.

Enroll online or call 1-800-535-1613 to speak with an Admission Advisor!

Meet Your Instructor

Dean Gottschalk is the chief instructor of The Professional Web Site Design Program. Throughout his career in computers, he has designed, launched, and maintained Web sites for a variety of companies. He is eager to share these techniques with his students!

He, along with our staff of courteous, knowledgeable career tutors, will give you careful guidance through your studies. If you have questions or need help along the way, just write, call, fax or E-mail us 24 hours a day. We'll give you prompt, personal assistance.

What You’ll Learn Lesson By Lesson in this Course

Lesson 1, What’s th World Wide Web

How the Web works; connecting to the Web with the browser; download speed; making a simple Web page; how to save documents as HTML.

Lesson 2, Hypertext Markup Language

Basic HTML coding; the three sections of an HTML document; transforming text into HTML documents; tags; adding white space; modifying text; lists; adding hyperlinks; making line breaks; horizontal rules; physical styles; logical style tags; URLs.

Lesson 3, Web Design: Part I

Elements of great Web page design; readability and the simplicity test; structuring and organizing the message; random access, linear, hierarchical, and mixed structures; understanding your audience, purpose, and scope.

Lesson 4, Web Design: Part II

The three elements of good interaction design; storyboards; organizing pages; making navigation easy; controls for interactivity; the welcoming page; thumbnails; rough sketches; setting a visual theme; elements of a user interface; organizing space by using a grid.

Supplement: Time Management Guide

How to study more effectively and increase your productivity as a student and in building a Web site design career.

Lesson 5, Test Writing & Graphic Design

Formatting; editing; proofreading; adding graphics as user interface and navigation elements, and as part of the theme; color; pixels; palettes; dithering; GIF and JPEG formats.

Lesson 6, The Web & HTML: A Closer Look

Basics of the World Wide Web and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML); creating your first Web page; inserting special characters, horizontal lines, and graphics; tagging text elements such as headings, paragraphs, and lists.

Lesson 7, Adding Hypertext Links to a Web Page

Creating hypertext links between elements and between two or more documents; a review of basic Web page structures; creating hypertext links to pages on the Internet and to FTP servers, newsgroups, and other Internet resources; using absolute and relative pathnames.

Lesson 8, Advanced Web Page Design

How HTML handles color; creating a color scheme; inserting a background image; spot color; working with various image formats; how to control the placement and appearance of images; working with client-side image maps.

Lesson 9, Designing With Tables

Creating a text table, a graphical table using various tags, table headers, and captions; controlling table text and appearance; creating table cells that span several rows or columns; using nested tables and Internet Explorer extensions with tables.

Lesson 10, Frames

Creating and controlling frame placement; controlling hyperlinks with frames; creating for browsers that support frames and those that don’t; magic target names; changing frame appearance with Netscape Navigator extensions.

Lesson 11, Creating Forms

Parts of an online form; CGI scripts; using HTML tags; input boxes; check boxes, form properties and hidden fields; selection lists; form buttons and image fields; the MAILTO action.

Lesson 12, Programming With Javascript

Running JavaScript; sending output to a Web page; working with variables, data, dates, expressions, and operators; arrays, loops, and conditional statements.

Lesson 13, Working With Javascript

Form validation; object-based programming; JavaScript objects, object names, object properties, and object methods; working with a selection object; prompting the user for input; creating calculated fields; validating user input; controlling form submission; reloading a page.

Lesson 14, Multimedia Web Pages

Linking to and embedding sound and video files; providing pages for browsers that don't support embedded objects; creating background sound with Internet Explorer; inserting a Java applet; creating a scrolling marquee.