0094 - Creating Web Pages
Description
Course DetailsCreate and post your very own website using HTML. You will learn the best strategies for planning the content, structure, and layout of your website as well as creating pages with neatly formatted text, building links between the pages, and more! This course will also cover search engine optimization and powerful no-cost or low-cost web marketing strategies.
How It WorksThis course is fully online, you require internet access and an email account. The course duration is 6 weeks, followed by a 2-week period to complete the final exam (online, open book). Lessons are released on Wednesdays and Fridays of each week, for a total of 12. You are not required to be online at any specific time. In addition to the specific lesson content, there is a discussion board with each lesson and often there is an optional assignment to apply the learning. Following each lesson, there is a short multiple choice quiz. Your score on these quizzes does not count towards the final mark but completing these helps solidify your learning as well as prepare you for the final exam. The final exam is an open-book, multiple choice exam and you need to achieve a minimum of 65% on the final exam to pass the course. There is only one opportunity to pass the exam. A certificate of completion from WatSPEED is available within four weeks of successful completion of each course and can be accessed in your student portal. Many of the Ed2Go courses are eligible towards the various online certificates offered by WatSPEED.
RequirementsHardware Requirements:
- This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac.
Software Requirements:
- PC: Windows 8 or later.
- Mac: macOS 10.6 or later.
- Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
- Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.
Other:
- Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.
Lesson 1 - Getting Started. Get started by learning
where the web is and how it works. In this lesson, you will learn some important concepts and
terminology, and hopefully clear up some buzzwords you may have heard but not quite understood.
Then, get started creating your first website.
Lesson 2 - Create Your First Web Page. In this lesson,
you'll create your first web page. You'll learn how to add tags and content to your page, view your page
in a browser, reopen it in an editor to make additions and changes, save those changes, and then view
the updated page in a web browser. These skills will apply to every web page you ever create, and
they'll get you started on creating any page you can imagine.
Lesson 3 - Formatting Text. In this lesson, you'll learn
to beef up your pages with the design elements that you see on most websites. First, you will learn how
to add headings, paragraphs, numbered lists, and bulleted lists to your pages, and the secrets to
adding special characters like © and &trade.; Finally, you'll discover how to add links to other peoples'
pages and to other pages within your own site.
Lesson 4 - Fun With Pictures. Here's your chance to
add some visual excitement to your website! This lesson covers the basics about adding pictures to
your web pages. You'll discover how to download pictures right off the web, and you'll also learn how to
prepare and use your own pictures from a digital camera.
Lesson 5 - Creating Tables. Tables are a terrific way to
neatly organize content into rows and columns. You've no doubt seen tables used in other websites
and countless other forms of publication. In this lesson, you'll learn how to use HTML to create tables in
your own web pages!
Lesson 6 - HTML, XHTML, and CSS. If you've been
involved in web development at all during the last 20 years, you may have heard about HTML, XHTML,
HTML5, and CSS. If you're new to all of this, it's a confusing mess of alphabet soup. In this lesson,
you'll learn the who, how, what, when, where, and why of these technologies—and what you should
use now so your website is in sync with current specs and future trends.
Lesson 7 - Getting Started With CSS. Virtually all
modern websites use CSS style rules for all their website styling. In this lesson, you'll learn what a style
rule is, and you'll get some hands-on practice creating your own style rules. You'll learn how to center
and align pictures and text and discover the secrets to jazzing up your site with colors (and how to
choose from the millions of color options available to you).
Lesson 8 - Creating a Page Layout. This lesson will
introduce you to more advanced HTML and CSS topics, including how to create a page layout with a
navigation bar. You will learn how to create a page layout using div tags, how to style your page
divisions, and some style rules.
Lesson 9 - Building Your Site. Most websites consist of
multiple pages with some common content on each page. This lesson will teach you to use a layout
page as a template so you can build multipage websites more quickly. You'll learn how to start with
liquid layouts, how to design a layout from scratch, and how to use your layout to easily build additional
pages. This will help you to develop more professional-looking pages using the same modern coding
techniques that seasoned professionals use!
Lesson 10 - Getting Noticed. Getting a site on the
Internet is one thing. Getting people to notice it is quite another. In this lesson, you'll learn about
Internet directory services, search engines, web-crawling infobots (not as creepy as they sound), and
things you can do to make your own site stand out in the crowd!
Lesson 11 - Publish Your Website. In this lesson, you'll
learn how to publish your website for the whole world to see. Best of all, you'll learn how to keep your
site on the Internet forever!
Lesson 12 - Authoring Systems. In this lesson, you'll
learn about authoring systems like Dreamweaver and Expression Web, and how they can make web
development quicker and easier. You'll also learn a couple of ways to get an online presence without
creating your own website!
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Essentials of Web Design : Mandatory