Introduction to World Wide Web Authoring and HTML

Part I of a three-part series is an overview of the Web, an introduction to (X)HTML markup and Web page design principles. Students get hands-on experience building simple web pages with hypertext links and graphics. Includes an overview of techniques that enhance and facilitate page creation.

Prerequisites: Familiarity with PC and browsing the Internet.

Instructors: Andrew Weaver (classroom), Judy Cannon (online)

Intermediate World Wide Web Authoring and HTML

Part II of a three-part series introduces table design, forms, and frames construction. Learn tips for maintaining an active Web site. Hands-on experience in building complex Web pages using techniques covered in class.

Prerequisites: Introduction to WWW Authoring, HTML, and CSS (or equivalent experience).

Instructors: Andrew Weaver (classroom), Judy Cannon (online)

Advanced World Wide Web Authoring and HTML

Part III of a three-part series introduces XML, dynamic XHTML, style sheets, and techniques to create images with small file sizes. Features a hands-on investigation and analysis of using these technologies with existing web sites.

Prerequisites: Intermediate WWW Authoring, HTML, and CSS (or equivalent experience).

Instructors: Andrew Weaver (classroom), Judy Cannon (online)

Responsive Web Design and Cross-Browser Compatibility

This course is a hands-on, practical look at creating Web designs that move gracefully from large screen devices to small mobile platforms without degrading user experience. The course also addresses and gives students a tool box for handling browser inconsistencies in rendering cutting edge Web design techniques.

Prerequisites: Intermediate World Wide Web Authoring, HTML and CSS or equivalent experience.

Instructors: Judy Cannon

HTML5

Get a deeper understanding of HTML 5 and learn how to create richer, more meaningful web pages with structural tags and descriptive attributes. Start with an overview of HTML 5 and how it differs from previous versions of HTML. Learn about the new tags and attributes, and investigate how browsers deal with HTML 5 content.

Prerequisites: Intermediate World Wide Web Authoring, HTML, and CSS or equivalent experience.

Instructor: Rhodes Gibson

Web Authoring: Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Control fonts, background colors, hyperlinks, margins and other page elements; layout a Web page using CSS. Learn to create CSS navigational menus for Web pages.ew tags and attributes, and investigate how browsers deal with HTML 5 content.

Prerequisites: Intermediate World Wide Web Authoring, HTML, and CSS or equivalent experience.

Instructor: Judy Cannon

CSS3

Learn the newest CSS standard, how it can change users' interactions with your web projects, and the best ways to implement CSS3 with backward compatibility. Review the new capabilities and applications with hands-on exercises – from typography to media queries. Web Authoring; using Cascading Style Sheets or equivalent knowledge.

Prerequisites: Intermediate World Wide Web Authoring, HTML, and CSS or equivalent experience.

Instructor: Rhodes Gibson

Dreamweaver 1

Web site creation with graphic elements. Includes use of Web authoring software and study of websites and browsers. Learn to use the powerful features in Adobe Dreamweaver to create and manage standards-compliant web pages that include images, links, Flash elements, interactive behaviors, and forms. You'll learn to speed development by using CSS, Library items and Templates. You'll also use Dreamweaver's built-in FTP feature to upload a site to a remote server.

Prerequisites: Intermediate World Wide Web Authoring, HTML, and CSS or equivalent experience.

Instructor: Greg Hervey

Dreamweaver 2

Learn advanced topics including Advanced CSS selectors, page layout with CSS, responsive web design, adding custom snippets and plug-ins, and implementing CSS transitions. Requirements: Dreamweaver CC (Creative Cloud).

Prerequisites: Dreamweaver 1, or equivalent experience.

Instructor: Greg Hervey

Web Accessibility

Hands-on course - incorporating Section 508 and WCAG Guidelines - designed for people who want to incorporate accessibility techniques into websites, and increase usability and interoperability of web based materials. From adding alt tags to enabling users to resize the on-screen text, the techniques covered in this class will produce smarter and faster sites with smaller file sizes and easier maintenance.

Prerequisites: Introduction to World Wide Web Authoring,HTML, and CSS or equivalent experience.

Instructor: Rhodes Gibson

Introduction to WordPress and Content Management Systems

Learn the basics of installing and configuring a Web Content Management System (CMS) to easily build blogs and small web sites. You'll perform common tasks using WordPress, one of the most popular (and free) Content Management Systems. You'll set up a simple blog and publish a self-hosted site.

Prerequisites: Intermediate World Wide Web Authoring, HTML, and CSS or equivalent experience.

Instructor: Greg Hervey

Photoshop 1: Introduction

In this introductory course you will learn the basics of digital imaging, and how to manipulate images and optimize them for the fastest downloads. Exercises include color correction, image retouching, photo manipulation, working with text and various types of layers, selection techniques, designing entire web page mock-ups and optimizing graphics in GIF, JPG and PNG format.

Prerequisites: Familiarity with computers.

Instructor: Greg Hervey

Photoshop 2: Advanced Web Design

Learn advanced techniques for extending the power of Photoshop: create and use Presets including custom brushes, patterns, styles and swatches. Learn to use filters, channels, vectors, and how to leverage Actions to automate repetitive tasks. You'll recreate banners, buttons, textures and effects from actual web sites. You'll also learn to slice mock-ups to prepare graphics for use in Dreamweaver, and even create simple animated GIFs. Exercises are realistic, web-specific applications of Photoshop.

Prerequisites: Photoshop 1, or equivalent experience

Instructor: Greg Hervey

Flash 1: Introduction

This hands-on introduction to the revolutionary Flash authoring program covers creating artwork, creating symbols, animation methods, scripting basic interactivity, and publishing Flash files in a variety of formats for online and offline delivery.

Prerequisites: Introduction to World Wide Web Authoring, HTML, and CSS or equivalent experience.

Instructor: Greg Hervey

Flash 2: Object-Oriented Programming

Learn more about ActionScripting in Flash: learn about Objects, properties and methods; create fluid layouts; understand scope and targeting; animate without the timeline; create interactive user-interface elements; import external data; learn common debugging techniques; create modular file structures to keep SWF files lean and extensible!

Prerequisites: Flash 1, or equivalent experience.

Instructor: Greg Hervey

Flash 3: Data Connectivity

Flash is a great tool for creating the front-end of an application, but the web is driven by back-end data. This class explores several ways of connecting the front end (your Flash application) with dynamic data on your server, including XML, PHP, and MySQL. We'll also pass data back and forth between different Flash files. This class is for the designer/developer who has little or no programming experience outside of ActionScript.

Prerequisites: Flash 2, or equivalent experience.

Instructor: Greg Hervey

Interface Design & Usability

This course focuses on the User-Centered Design Process, and Human-Computer Interface (HCI) fundamentals. Students will learn to evaluate usability, and to employ good practices of communication and usability when developing web site and web application interfaces.

Prerequisites: Photoshop 1, or equivalent experience (students may use Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Fireworks, or equivalent image editing software).

Instructor: Greg Hervey

Introduction to Programming Languages

This class is for those who have few or no skills in programming. Emphasis will be placed on problem definition, program solution, and how to enter, manipulate, and display data. Using Qbasic as a teaching vehicle, this course will expose students to the basic programming concepts they need for further work with programming languages.

Prerequisites: Familiarity with computers, the Internet, and Microsoft Windows.

Instructors: Séan Gilkey (classroom), Judy Cannon (online)

Perl Programming for the Web

This introduction to the Perl 5 programming language and its use as an Internet programming language will cover programming fundamentals, data types, control structures, loops and I/O processing. All topics taught in the context of the Web.

Prerequisites: Previous programming experience; Intermediate World Wide Web Authoring and HTML, or equivalent experience.

Instructors: Séan Gilkey (classroom), Judy Cannon (online)

PHP

PHP hypertext preprocessor is a server side programming language that you embed into documents such as HTML files, which may contain DHTML, JavaScript, and Java. PHP is great for creating pages on the fly and can be used to make guest books, message boards, and other interactive pages. Learn the programming aspect of PHP, variables, operators, hashes, arrays, and control structures.

Prerequisites:Intermediate World Wide Web Authoring, HTML, and CSS or equivalent experience plus basic programming knowledge.

Instructors: Séan Gilkey (classroom), Judy Cannon (online)

JavaScript Programming

Covers basic JavaScript scripting features: code placement, events and eventhandlers, methods, functions and parameters, attributes, JavaScript objects, and underlying it all, the document object model. Work with variables, operators, if/then/else control structures, loops, and arrays. Close attention paid to browser type and browser version compatibility, and to JavaScript anomalies and annoyances.

Prerequisites:Intermediate World Wide Web Authoring and HTML, or equivalent experience; Prior programming experience.

Instructors: Judy Cannon

AJAX

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) is a technique that uses the JavaScript-based XMLHttpRequest object to retrieve responses from a web server in a dynamic way, allowing for instant, on page updating. Learn to create dynamic web pages that function more like desktop applications than traditional web pages.

Prerequisites:Intermediate World Wide Web Authoring and HTML, or equivalent experience; JavaScript Programming, or equivalent experience.

Instructors: Judy Cannon

Java Programming: Part I

Java I Programming is a beginning Java Programming course. The class introduces the idea of Object Oriented Programming, and covers the Java Development Kit, classes, objects, attributes and behavior, statements and expressions, methods and casting, arrays, logic and loops, creating classes, creating Java applications, command-line arguments, constructor methods, overriding methods, overriding constructors and finalizer methods. Prerequisites: Knowledge of basic programming concepts including control structures such as for, while, and if-else. No prior knowledge of OOP or HTML is required.

Prerequisites:Introduction to Programming Languages, or equivalent experience.

Instructors: Séan Gilkey (classroom), Judy Cannon (online)

Java Programming: Part II

Java II Programming is the second in a series of Java courses. The Prerequisites for Java II is either the Java I course or a beginning Java course. Students must be familiar with Object Oriented Programming and terminology before taking Java II. The course covers creating applets and applications, the Graphics Class, coordinate systems, drawing Objects, threads, images and sound, the Abstract Windowing Toolkit, various components, interface layout, mouse and keyboard event handling, generic event handling, Windows, Frames, Dialog boxes and Menus.

Prerequisites:Java Programming: Part I, or equivalent experience.

Instructors: Séan Gilkey (classroom), Judy Cannon (online)

Java Programming: Part III

Java III will concentrate on the Swing components introduced in Java 2. The Swing components are an enhancement to the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) components which have been covered in previous courses. This course is a hands-on, practical look at creating more sophisticated Java programs utilizing the functionality of the Swing components. Students will learn how to create GUI menu systems and use Swing components to create frames, labels, borders, buttons, check boxes, radio buttons, combo boxes, text fields, text areas, file choosers, color choosers, internal frames, menu bars, tool bars, tabbed panes and sliders. Event processing code for each of the components is demonstrated. Students also learn how to read and write to files using the FileReader Class and other supporting classes. The course introduces Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) and Remote Method Invocation (RMI).

Prerequisites:Java Programming: Part II, or equivalent experience.

Instructors: Judy Cannon

Web Applications with ASP.NET: Part I

Learn about structure and architecture of Microsoft's .NET platform initiative; products and languages of the .NET platform; and the ASP.NET development tools. Covers ASP.NET development fundamentals and the available languages for developing ASP.NET applications as well programming basics. Required book: Microsoft ASP.NET Step by Step, G Andrew Duthie, ISBN 0-7356-1287-0.

Prerequisites:Intermediate World Wide Web Authoring and HTML, or equivalent experience; Introduction to Programming Languages, or equivalent experience.

Instructors: Diane Thorpe

Web Applications with ASP.NET: Part II

Covers creating ASP.Net applications with Visual Studio.NET, managing application state, accessing and binding data using ADO.Net, creating custom server controls. Learn to create web forms, use server controls, tracing and debugging applications. Required book: Microsoft ASP.NET Step by Step, G Andrew Duthie, ISBN 0-7356-1287-0.

Prerequisites:Web Applications with ASP.NET: Part I, or equivalent experience.

Instructors: Diane Thorpe

Web Applications with ASP.NET: Part III

Creating and Using XML Web Services, using caching to improve performance, configuring ASP.Net applications and setting up security in their applications. Learn to work with XML in ASP.Net. Required book: Microsoft ASP.NET Step by Step, G Andrew Duthie, ISBN 0-7356-1287-0.

Prerequisites:Web Applications with ASP.NET: Part II, or equivalent experience.

Instructors: Diane Thorpe

JSP

This course covers the development and deployment of servlets and the Java Server Pages that generate them. Topics include installation, configuration and testing of the Tomcat servlet container, the servlet lifecycle and core components, JSP directives, JSP standard actions, data-persistence through standard JavaBeans, the JSP Expression Language, developing JSP Custom Tags and using the Java Standard Tag Library.

Prerequisites:Intermediate World Wide Web Authoring and HTML, or equivalent experience, and Java Programming: Part 1 or equivalent experience.

Instructors: Séan Gilkey

Introduction to Visual Basic.NET

Create Microsoft Visual Basic.Net applications. Setup and run the Visual Basic.Net Express Edition, understand the .Net Framework, and navigate the development environment in order to create efficient and effective applications. Students will use the appropriate data types and procedural functions, handle errors, and deal with incorrect or unexpected input. Students get hands-on experience by completing labs, where they will build applications, using the Visual Studio Express edition environments and tools.

Prerequisites:Introduction to Programming Languages, or equivalent experience.

Instructors: Diane Thorpe

C# and the .NET Platform

C# is a modern, object-oriented language that enables programmers to quickly build a wide range of applications for the new Microsoft .NET platform, which provides tools and services that fully exploit both computing and communications. Learn to use C# language constructs, components that can be converted into XML Web services.

Prerequisites:Introduction to Programming Languages, or equivalent experience.

Instructors: Séan Gilkey

Introduction to E-Commerce

Examine the type of system which is described by the umbrella term “e-commerce.” Typical application areas include retailing using the Internet, supply chain management, and online auctions. Covers underlying technologies used to implement e-commerce applications, e.g., web technology, the problems encountered when developing distributed e-commerce systems, such as ensuring that a system is kept secure from criminal activity, and study of a typical retailing system.

Instructors: Judy Cannon

Programming for E-Commerce Websites

This technical programming class takes the student through the design and development of an E-Commerce shopping cart system, using PHP and MySQL.

Prerequisites:Introduction to Programming Languages, or equivalent experience.

Instructors: Judy Cannon

Capstone Portfolio

In this final course of the Webmaster Program, students develop a website that demonstrates the range of skills and abilities they've acquired during the program. They develop this website with an ACC Webmaster program faculty member acting as a mentor. The Capstone Project has to be linked from the students' index.html page as a part of their web portfolio. The entire web portfolio including a web résumé will be evaluated as a part of the Capstone Project.

Prerequisites:Completion of all other requirements for an ACC Webmaster Certificate, and approval of the Program Coordinator See Capstone Requirements