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Short Course Descriptions

Principles of Web Design     Detailed Description 

Creating a web page using XHTML — Overview of XHTML — Document structure and basic syntax, text markup tags, character entities — Incorporating images and download considerations — Working with hyperlinks — How to create complex layouts and attractive web pages — Page formatting and color — Advanced tables — Table tips and tricks — Working with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) — CSS Selection Techniques — CSS Typography — CSS Text Spacing and Border Properties — CSS Positioning

Cascading Style Sheets     Detailed Description    Class Files 40Kb Zip

Covers the latest enhancements to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) — Creating style sheets — Basic CSS Syntax — Font Properties — Text Spacing and Border Properties — Background and Image properties — CSS Design Studio — Prerequisite: XHTML Fundamentals or equivalent

Designing Accessible Web Sites     Detailed Description 

Understanding Web accessibility — Defining your users — " Working with Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 guidelines — " Defining accessibility policies and guidelines — " Working with adaptive devices and assistive technologies — " Assessing existing content — " Creating accessible content — " Using Cascading Style Sheets — " Creating accessible navigation — " Creating accessible tables — " Creating accessible forms and data input — " Assigning user controls —

Introduction to XML     Detailed Description    Class Files 8Kb Zip

An introduction to the extensible markup language for those familiar with HTML — Why use XML? — Moving from HTML to XML — Creating well-formed XML — Creating valid XML documents — Working with DTDs — XML attributes and entites — XML Namespaces

Advanced XML - XSLT
Detailed Description    Class Files 8Kb Zip

This class covers the Extensible Style Language Transformations (XSLT)and XPath — Learn to manipulate and transform XML documents using XSL stylesheets and Cascading Style Sheets — Convert XML documents from one DTD to another, to HTML and to other formats — Extract and manuipulate data for different destination users and media types — Create new content from existing XML data

XML Fundamentals
Class Files 59Kb Zip

Introduction to XML and Advanced XML together in a 2-day class, also includes an extensive section on XML Schema.

Business Writing     Detailed Description 

Analyze your audience — Interpret the rhetorical situation — Deal with writer's block — Construct clear, concise, active sentences — Handle common grammar problems — Maintain consistency — Design effective documents — Create legible, accessible documents