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Website Design Using HTML and XHTML Standards - A 2 Day Course

Synopsis

Most business-people recognise the commercial importance of the Internet, but few realize how easy it is to learn the skills required to produce a basic Web presence.

This practical workshop introduces the basic elements of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and its XML-compatible variant, XHTML, i.e., the standards which determine the structure and use of web pages.

Unlike most web site design training courses, this one is not locked-in to any particular vendor's web browser, web server, application server, or operating system.

Like all GBdirect website design training courses, it teaches best practice in vendor-neutral, standards-compliant, cross-platform, and completely transferable skills, i.e. you will get real XHTML training and not merely one company’s take on it.

On completion of this course, students should be able to produce standards-compliant website design which works with any of the well-known packages in this field, e.g., Dreamweaver, MS FrontPage, GoLive, IIS, Apache, ColdFusion, WebSphere, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Unix, Linux, .Net, SunOne, etc.

Suitable for

The course is intended for communications, marketing and design professionals who need to develop high-quality World Wide Web pages without external help.

Delivery

To an even greater extent than normal, this web site design course is delivered through hands-on exercises, backed up by expert tuition in fundamental principles and best XHTML coding practice.

Whenever possible, students use hand XHTML coding techniques to learn the fundamentals which underpin proprietary web page editors like Dreamweaver, GoLive and FrontPage.

Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices

Bradford — £575 (+VAT)

  • 14–15 Jul 2008
  • 4–5 Aug 2008
  • 29–30 Sep 2008
  • 1–2 Dec 2008

Central London — £575 (+VAT)

  • 2–3 Jun 2008
  • 7–8 Jul 2008
  • 1–2 Sep 2008
  • 6–7 Oct 2008
  • 10–11 Nov 2008
  • 15–16 Dec 2008

Contents:

Overview of HTML

  • Brief history of HTML and XHTML
  • How the web works — clients and servers
  • Browsers and rendering

The Basics of HTML

  • Hierarchical structure: elements (tags) and text
  • Basic XHTML document structure
  • Paragraphs
  • Whitespace and line breaks in XHTML
  • Headings
  • Phrase mark-up in XHTML
  • Hypertext links
  • Embedded images
  • Lists
  • Preformatted text
  • Special characters in XHTML
  • XHTML and Semantic markup

Simple design customisation with CSS

  • Relationship between XHTML/HTML and CSS
  • Linking to a stylesheet in a separate file
  • Examples of common customisations

Images

  • Bitmapped images
  • Types of image: GIF, JPEG, PNG
  • Image type tradeoffs
  • Creating images

Tables

  • Using tables for tabular data
  • Abusing tables for layout in XHTML
  • Basic table structure
  • Cells that span rows or columns
  • Cell alignment
  • Styling table cells

More CSS

  • The box formatting model
  • Borders
  • Margins and padding
  • Collapsing margins
  • Formatting edges differently
  • Background colours and background images
  • Selectors
  • Multiple selections
  • Classes
  • <div> and <span>
  • Descendant selectors
  • Text appearance
  • Typefaces
  • Font sizes
  • Other font properties
  • Leading
  • Text alignment and justification

XHTML

  • What is XML?
  • Relationship between HTML and XHTML
  • Why use XHTML?
  • Changes in the document prologue
  • Changes in element tags
  • Handling empty elements

HTML and Scripting

  • Server-side scripting: forms
  • XHTML Form elements
  • Client-side scripting
  • JavaScript
  • Graceful degradation
  • Examples

Embedding Multimedia

  • Image maps
  • Embedding flash movies
  • Graceful degradation

Web Design training UK enquiries

UK Training enquiries and feedback form.

Web Design training UK prices

For publicly scheduled training (individual places), see our UK training schedule.

In-house training for company groups is charged at a daily rate per group — see our In-House UK Training Guidelines.

Publicly Scheduled Training Locations

We currently run public training courses in the following locations:

  • London, UK
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
  • Birmingham, West Midlands, UK
  • Carshalton, Surrey, UK
  • Chester, North West, UK
  • Coventry, West Midlands, UK
  • Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Glasgow, Scotland, UK
  • Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK
  • Manchester, North West, UK
  • Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK
  • Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK
  • Reading, Berkshire, UK
  • Slough, Berkshire, UK
  • Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK
  • Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK
  • Wokingham, Berkshire, UK

Most UK public training courses are available on a monthly basis.

Please see the individual course outlines or our public training schedule for details.

In-house (on-site) training locations

We deliver in-house courses at client premises and/or training facilities in any part of the world which is practically and commercially accessible.

Our In-house training guidelines outline our basic requirements and our UK pricing structure. To estimate costs for training in other countries, simply convert to your local currency and then make a rough calculation of our tutor's costs for travelling to and staying at your location.

Web Standards Compliance

A good way of assessing the quality of website design training, is to find out whether or not the training company's own web site complies with web standards. Ours does.

Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!

Every website which adheres to these W3C standards makes the web a little more useful and a little easier to use. Conversely, every site which breaks them not only irritates potential customers, but also undermines the interoperability upon which the basic functions of the web depend.

If you ever find a non-compliant page on our site, please let us know. It's most likely to be the result of a momentary lapse in concentration (e.g. markup typos) and will be fixed immediately.


West Yorkshire Office

GBdirect Ltd
Training Division
Bradford Design Exchange
34 Peckover Street
BRADFORD
BD1 5BD
West Yorkshire
United Kingdom

training@gbdirect.co.uk

Training: 0800 651 0338
General: +44 (0)870 200 7273
Finance: +44 (0)1353 615 174

Please call between 0900 and 1700 (UK time) on Monday to Friday


South East Regional Office

GBdirect Ltd
Training Division
18 Lynn Rd
ELY
CB6 1DA
Cambridgeshire
United Kingdom

training@gbdirect.co.uk

Training: 0800 651 0338
General: +44 (0)870 200 7273
Finance: +44 (0)1353 615 174

Please call between 0900 and 1700 (UK time) on Monday to Friday


Please note:
Non-training enquiries should be directed, initially, to our UK national office in Bradford (West Yorkshire), even if the enquiry concerns services delivered in London or South/East England. Clients in London and the South East will typically be handled by staff working in the London or Cambridge areas.