Course
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Internet Technologies
Do You Want to Explore the Internet?
If you are new to the Internet, we suggest you begin with the Introduction to the Internet course. The prerequisite is Introduction to Windows.
Are You Designing Web Pages?
Learn HTML, DHTML, and XML
When you are designing Web pages,
you may use a variety of programs to create text, artwork, music, or
video for your pages. But it all starts with HTML, the simple programming language that
is the standard for creating Web pages.
The more you know about HTML, the more control you will have in designing and adjusting your pages. Even if you use a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) program such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver to create Web pages, we recommend you take the Introduction to HTML course. With a basic understanding of HTML, you will recognize why certain formatting is used and the best way to design for the Web so that your pages are optimized for all browsers.
We offer three levels of HTML as well as DHTML (Dynamic HTML) and XML courses. The introductory HTML class covers the basic tags for generating Web pages. The intermediate level deals with multiple-column text, images, and audio files. The advanced course teaches you how to create frames and image maps. The course Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (formerly "DHTML: Cascading Style Sheets") covers creating and applying style sheets to add presentation-type effects, visual qualities, and layout options to your Web pages.
We also offer a course series on XML, or Extensible Markup Language. XML is used to define the content of a document on the Web, which makes the data in the document easy to interpret by other software applications.
Design Web Pages (Go WYSIWYG) We recommend that you first take the introductory HTML course before
taking a WYSIWYG course, since knowledge of HTML will help you understand
why certain formatting works and looks the way it does.
We also offer courses in
Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Expression Web, and SharePoint Designer, which are programs that use a
graphical interface instead of using HTML code to create Web pages. These
programs have easy-to-use menus and toolbars for creating text, inserting
images, and changing background colors and textures.
Create Artwork and Animation
In addition to our HTML classes,
you may want to take a class in one of our graphics programs, such as
Photoshop or Illustrator. We offer a special course for Photoshop users,
Advanced Topics in Photoshop: Web Graphics, which guides you through the scan settings,
resolutions, formats, and colors for creating effective and attractive
artwork for the Web.
We also offer courses in Macromedia Fireworks, a software application designed for creating and optimizing graphics for the Web. Fireworks contains both bitmap (paint) and vector (draw) capabilities.
We also offer a course series in Macromedia Flash, which is widely used to create special effects and animations for Web pages. Our Flash curriculum includes the following courses:
- Introduction to Flash
- Intermediate Applications of Flash
- Advanced Applications of Flash
(formerly "Advanced Applications of Flash: Tips and Techniques") - Advanced Topics in Flash: Animation
(formerly "Special Topics in Flash: Animation Techniques") - Advanced Topics in Flash: Video
In addition to these courses, our Flash series includes two Flash ActionScript courses, which teach you how to use Flash's scripting language to add interactivity and special effects to your Web pages.
Finally, you can learn to create movies for your Web pages by taking our courses
in Adobe Premiere Pro. This digital editing program can assemble file clips,
photos, and artwork to produce movies, and then save them as QuickTime files
for the Web.
For complete course listings, class descriptions, and prerequisites of either day or evening classes, check out the Class Schedule.
