Website Design and Development

Course Objectives
This course is designed to instruct students in Web site construction and design. Students will learn HTML coding and then be introduced to popular Web design and graphics programs including Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Flash, as well as the multimedia programs Quicktime and iMovie. The course will cover the usage of graphics, sound and video and discuss the appropriateness of multimedia on Web sites for journalism, advertising, public relations, and e-commerce. Students will work on several small Web projects .The goal is to emphasize more than just the skills associated with individual programs, but the integration of several programs into designing effective and attractive Web sites.

Upon completion of this course, students will possess:

• an understanding of HTML, Flash and other Web design technologies
• a broad perspective on the interactive, multimedia
• the ability to create Web sites that are functional and well designed
• the ability to produce engaging multimedia to accompany sites

Topics to be covered
DAY 1: Introduction
Participants will be introduced and exposed to work with the following topics:

Basic of WWW
Internet
Intranet
Web Server
Local Server
Internet Server
Domain Names
Domain Hosting
Domain Control Panel
Email creating and configuration

DAY 2: HTML and CSS
Participants will be able to work the basic elements of Website/Web Application including HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language) and Cascaded Style Sheet(CSS)

HTML Introduction
HTML Get Started
HTML Basic
HTML Elements
HTML Headings
HTML Paragraphs
HTML Formatting
HTML Fonts
HTML Images
HTML Tables
HTML Lists
HTML Forms
HTML Frames
CSS Basic
CSS Introduction
CSS Syntax
CSS Id & Class
Styling Backgrounds
Styling Text
Styling Fonts
Styling Links
Styling Lists
Styling Tables

DAY 3: Website Design and Development/Blogging
In this stage, participants will be able to design and develop new website, edit a current website, create their own customized website using powerful Content Management System(CMS). The CSM include:

Designing and creating Database in MySQL
Linking database with database user
Designing Logo
Adding Logo and Title in the Web Home Page
Adding articles
Adding and uploading images
Designing photo gallery
Working with Forum
Creating Forms
Content Management Systems to be covered are:
• Joomla!
• Drupal

DAY 4: Website Updating and Maintenance
Participants will be able to maintain websites for:

Uploading contents
Changing contents
Creating users privileges
Uploading Images, Audios, Videos
Creating Menus and Sub-menues, sub-sub Menues
Creating, designing and maintaining blocks