CIW Site Designer Series Course:

Design Methodology and Technology (CIWDESIGN)

Design Methodology and Technology is a five-day course that teaches students how to create and manage Web sites with tools such as Macromedia Dreamweaver 3.0 and Flash 4.0, FrontPage 2000, Dynamic HTML, and various multimedia and CSS standards. Students will also implement the latest strategies to develop third-generation Web sites, evaluate design tools, discuss future technology standards, and explore the incompatibility issues surrounding current browsers. The course focuses on theory, design and Web construction, along with information architecture concepts, Web project management, scenario development and performance evaluations.

Target Audience

Web authors, marketing and communications professionals, PR professionals, Webmasters, graphic designers, desktop designers, technical writers, and library scientists.

Job Responsibilities

Implement and maintain hypertext-based Web sites using authoring and scripting languages; create Web content; use Web management tools and digital media tools; and apply human-factor principles to design.

Prerequisites

Students must have CIW Foundations certification or equivalent experience.

Topics

Overview of Design Concepts

Web Page Layout and Elements

Usability Testing

  • The Importance of Usability
  • Usability Testing

Navigation Concepts

Web Graphics

Multimedia

The Web Development Process

Mindmapping
  • The Mindmapping Process
  • Mindmapping a Web Site

Site Implementation Factors

HTML Standards and Compliance

Tables and Page Structure

HTML Frames

Metadata

Cascading Style Sheets

Site Development with Microsoft FrontPage 2000

  • FrontPage Views
  • FrontPage Menus and Toolbars
  • Opening Webs and Files Shared
  • Shared Borders
  • Framesets
  • Styles
  • FrontPage Themes
  • DHTML Toolbar
  • Web Forms
  • FrontPage Components
  • Web Reports

Site Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver 3.0

  • Page Layout
  • Creating Image Maps
  • Creating Templates
  • Frames with Dreamweaver
  • Rollover Images
  • Web Forms
  • Behaviors
  • Modifying Layers
  • Dreamweaver Library
  • Editing HTML
  • Jump Menus
  • Macromedia Exchange

Web Pages with Allaire HomeSite 4.5

Images with JASC Paint Shop Pro 5.0

Multimedia with Macromedia Flash 4.0

  • Flash 4.0
  • Shapes
  • Colors and Fills
  • Flash Timeline
  • Layers
  • Saving and Publishing Movies
  • Flash Symbols
  • Buttons
  • Customizing the Library
  • Tweens
  • Movie Clips
  • Adding Sound to Flash
  • Adding Flash Movies to HTML Files
  • Testing for Flash Plug-In
  • Tell Targets
  • Masking Layers

JavaScript Fundamentals

  • Programming Concepts
  • Objects, Properties and Methods
  • What Is JavaScript?
  • The Evolution of JavaScript
  • Embedding JavaScript into HTML
  • Strengths of JavaScript
  • Communicating with the User
  • Browser Detection

Dynamic HTML

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

HTTP Servers

Cookies

Downloadables and Plug-Ins

 

Java Applets

Databases
  • Web Design and Databases
  • Database Anatomy
  • Queries
  • Database Management System (DBMS)
  • Tools, Products and Database Programs

Standards Organizations

  • Internet Governing Bodies
  • Internet Society (ISOC)
  • Internet Architecture Board (IAB)
  • Internet Research Task Force (IRTF)
  • Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
  • World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  • Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
  • Requests for Comments (RFCs)

Web Workshop

  • Building Your Web Site

Web Site Publishing