WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

Develop and extend the capabilities of your website by learning about HTML, Contribute, Dreamweaver, and Flash.

Adobe Contribute  (2-session course; faculty and staff only)

Adobe Dreamweaver Short Courses

    Creating a Basic Web Page
    Web Design, Intermediate 

   
Adobe Dreamweaver In-Depth (4-session course; faculty and staff only)

Adobe Flash Basics

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Adobe Contribute (Faculty & Staff only)

If you already know Microsoft Word, Contribute's familiar Word-like interface makes it easy to edit the text on a webpage, add images and links, create tables, and insert the contents of a Word or Excel document.  This simple web editor is an ideal tool for anyone who is responsible for maintaining and updating a Smith website.

Prerequisites:

Familiarity with Microsoft Windows and Word, and a need to maintain web pages for a Smith department or a Smith-related project.

Please note that this class meets twice, as shown below.

Instructor: Pat Billingsley

Dates: Tuesday, September 22nd and Thursday, September 24th
Time: 9:30 - 11:30 AM
Location: Seelye B2

Objectives: 

Participants will become familiar with the following topics and procedures:

• Basic web concepts and terminology
• The Contribute interface
• Editing text on an existing webpage
• Creating a new page from an existing page
• Saving draft pages
• Using tables to organize content into rows and columns
• Creating numbered and bulleted lists
• Inserting images
• Creating internal and external links
• Inserting content from a Word or Excel document
• Publishing finished pages
  

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Adobe Dreamweaver: Creating a Basic Web Page

Dreamweaver is a very versatile and powerful html editing software application. This workshop will help participants begin basic design of a web page and understand how to set up and manage a website in Dreamweaver. The workshop will cover orientation, saving and uploading of files, and page properties. We’ll conclude with best uses of images, multimedia, hyperlinks, and rollovers.

Prerequisites: Participants need good basic computing skills.

Instructor: Aisha Gabriel

Date: Monday, September 14th
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Location: Wright Hall 5

OR

Date: Thursday, October 1

Time: 7:00-8:30 PM
Location: Wright Hall 5

OR

Date:  Wednesday, October 7

Time:  3:00 - 4:30 PM

Location: The Center for Media Production

Objectives:

• To provide an overview of Dreamweaver’s capabilities
• To encourage anyone with an interest in web design to learn new skills
• To teach a design software tool

Instructional Content and Learning Activities:

Presentation Outline (PDF)


Related Links:

• Dreamweaver tutorial listed in the Dreamweaver Help Files.

To register for this workshop, click here.



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Adobe Dreamweaver: Web Design, Intermediate

This workshop will teach how to set up and manage a website in Dreamweaver.  Intermediate level skills will be introduced: use of images and color, multimedia, creative hyperlinks, banners and menus, good page layout.

Prerequisites: Web Design--intermediate is intended to follow the Creating a Basic Web Page workshop.  Participants should have taken the basic workshop or, otherwise, have good basic web design skills.  Instructor can be reached at x2648.

Instructor: Aisha Gabriel

Date: Monday, September 28th

Time: 3:00 - 4:30 PM

Location: Wright Hall 5

OR

Date: Thursday, October 8th

Time: 7:00-8:30 PM

Location: Wright Hall 5

Objectives:

    * To provide an overview of Dreamweaver’s capabilities, part two

    * To encourage anyone with an interest in web design to learn new skills

    * To teach a design software tool

Related Resources:

    * Dreamweaver tutorial listed in the Dreamweaver Help Files.

To register for this workshop, click here.

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Adobe Dreamweaver In-Depth (Faculty & Staff only)

Dreamweaver is a full-featured program for developing and managing web sites. Learn to create basic web pages using text, images, tables, and hyperlinks.  We will also cover dynamic elements such as rollover images, forms, and pop-up menus, as well as basic web site management strategies.

Please note that this class meets four times, as shown below.

Instructors: Pat Billingsley

Dates: October 6th, 8th, 13th and 15th
Time: 9:30 - 11:30 AM
Location: Seelye B2

Prerequisites:

A need to develop or maintain web pages for a Smith department or a Smith-related project.

Objectives: 

Participants will become familiar with the following topics and procedures:

• Basic web development concepts and terminology
• Using FTP to upload and download files
• The Dreamweaver interface
• Creating local site folder(s)
• Creating and save a web page
• Previewing a web page in a browser
• Uploading a web page to a web server
• Creating paragraphs, bulleted lists, stylized text, and more!
• Inserting an image into a web page
• Wrapping text around an image
• Aligning and resizing an image
• Creating an image map
• Using an image as a link
• Creating hyperlinks
• Using tables to design a web page
• Creating layers and inserting content
• Creating simple web-based forms
• Creating, editing, and using templates
• Creating, editing, and using cascading style sheets
  

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Adobe Flash Basics

This workshop is an introduction to the creation of graphics and animation using Macromedia Flash CS4. We will learn the basics of vector graphics and how to animate various objects. The students will walk away with a simple animation created for a website. 

Prerequisites: Participants should have some knowledge of the creation of computer graphics (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc)

Instructor: Damon Blanchette

Date: Thursday, September 17th
Time: 1:00-3:00 PM
Location: Center for Media Production C103

Objectives:

• Provide an overview of Flash’s features and interface.
• Learn to draw with vector graphics.
• Create simple animations with moving symbols.
• Create buttons.

• Publish an animation and place it in a webpage.

Instructional Content and Learning Activities:

Presentation Outline (PDF)
Presentation Handout (PDF)

Related Links:

Kirupa
Actionscripts.org
Flashkit

To register for this workshop, click here.

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