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Developing a Website: Hands-On


Course 4704 Days

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Quick Enrol

You Will Learn How To

  • Establish, configure and maintain an intranet or Internet Web site
  • Develop and publish Web pages using HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
  • Optimize page styles and layout with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • Configure a Web server
  • Interface a Web site to a database for the dynamic storage and retrieval of data
  • Produce dynamic Web pages using server-side and client-side scripts

Course Benefits

Functional and attractive Web sites are critical elements of success for most organizations. In order to stand out from the competition, a site must be aesthetically appealing as well as perform smoothly and efficiently. In this hands-on course, you gain the knowledge and practical skills you need to develop a Web site. You learn the fundamentals of HTML syntax and layout, creating effective Web pages, configuring a Web server and interfacing your Web site to databases.

Who Should Attend

Those involved in establishing, developing or maintaining a Web site and anyone wanting to gain more knowledge about Web technologies. A basic familiarity with Microsoft Windows, the Internet and the Web is helpful.

Hands-On Training

An in-depth case study provides the hands-on skills to generate a dynamic Web site. Exercises include:
  • Creating accessible, standards-based Web pages with HTML, XHTML and CSS
  • Building, testing and refining your Web site
  • Adding DHTML effects to Web pages
  • Enhancing your Web page with images and image maps
  • Configuring and testing a Web server
  • Processing user requests and generating dynamic pages as the response
  • Interfacing your Web site to a database
  • Incorporating multimedia effects

Course 470 Content

Introduction to the Web

  • Internet/intranet fundamentals
  • Web architecture
  • Exploring multiple browsers
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

HTML: Hypertext Markup Language

Building a Web page with HTML and XHTML

  • Head and body elements
  • Formatting text with tags
  • Establishing hypertext links
  • Ordered and unordered lists
  • Designing tables to display data
  • Defining relative and absolute anchors

Adding graphic elements

  • Making your pages graphical with embedded images
  • Adding interactivity with clickable images
  • Utilizing animated images to liven up a Web page
  • Creating image maps to link multiple parts of a single image

Controlling page styles and layout with CSS

  • Attaching style properties to HTML tags
  • Creating and applying style sheets
  • Implementing a styled navigational menu
  • Choosing and applying styles with class and ID attributes
  • Ensuring a consistent look across all pages of a site

Implementing a Web Server

Web server functionality

  • Web server/browser communication
  • The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

Configuring a Web server

  • Setting up the server directory structure
  • Deploying access configuration/security
  • Ongoing server administration

Programming on the Server

Server-side scripting

  • Client/server/script interaction
  • Exploring the operation of server-side Web applications
  • Accessing data on the Web server
  • Creating dynamic Web pages
  • The difference between GET and POST requests
  • Including a consistent navigational menu on all pages
  • Reading and writing browser cookies

Processing user data with forms

  • Capturing user input with HTML forms
  • Adding text fields, selection lists, check boxes and radio buttons to a Web page
  • Configuring a form to invoke your server-side program when submitted
  • Processing form input with dynamic Web pages

Interfacing to a Database

Relational databases and the Web

  • Characterizing database records
  • Using SQL to manipulate the database

Database-driven Web pages

  • Opening a connection to a database
  • Storing data captured from forms
  • Performing dynamic queries on the database
  • Generating a Web page response displaying the results of a query

Creating Dynamic Web Pages

Adding interactivity with JavaScript

  • Incorporating JavaScript that executes in the Web browser
  • Enhancing client-side functionality
  • Validating form content to ensure forms are filled out correctly
  • Reacting to user actions

Incorporating multimedia

  • Embedding animation and video content in Web pages
  • Adding interactivity with plug-ins

Creating interactive Web pages with Dynamic HTML (DHTML)

  • Combining JavaScript and CSS
  • Supporting multiple browsers
  • Dynamically positioning content within a page
  • Revealing and hiding page content
  • Implementing rollover graphics with DHTML

XML and HTML5

  • Fundamentals of XML
  • Implementing an RSS feed on your site
  • Introducing HTML5

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Training Dates

Live online classroom training. Participate in person or in live, online events (highlighted) via Learning Tree AnyWareTM.
Feb 14 - 17Ottawa enrol
Jun 19 - 22Ottawa enrol
Jul 24 - 27Toronto enrol
Oct 16 - 19Ottawa enrol

US Dates

Mar 27 - 30Reston, VA enrol
Apr 2 - 5New York enrol
May 29 - Jun 1Rockville, MD enrol
Jun 12 - 15Reston, VA enrol
Jun 26 - 29Alexandria, VA enrol
Jul 31 - Aug 3New York enrol
Aug 21 - 24Rockville, MD enrol
Oct 9 - 12Reston, VA enrol
Oct 30 - Nov 2Alexandria, VA enrol
Nov 13 - 16Rockville, MD enrol

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$ 3,220Standard Tuition
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$ 2,950Voucher 5-Pack
$ 2,830Government Discount

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