Class Information

Short Course Descriptions

XHTML Fundamentals

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 — Frames: Concepts and design considerations — Frames and link targeting —

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

Smart Web Page Design     Detailed Description    Class Files 54Kb Zip

Online design principles and the visual aspects of creating a web site — Working with graphics, text, and page design elements — Building page templates — Working with color — Streamlining images — User-based design — Prerequisite: Introduction to HTML or equivalent

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