Elements of Web Design

Course ID

35100

Course Description

This course provides a broad overview of the concepts related to designing effective web pages. A combination of lecture, demonstration and lab-exercises will lead students through the process of developing an effective web site.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course but basic computer navigation skills are recommended.

Audience

This course is most valuable for individuals who have been given responsibilities to create or maintain a website. It will also be valuable for new web designers, web developers, and graphic artists who want to extend their skills in creating complete websites.

Course Content

    Process
  • The site development team
  • Sidebar: Web teams
  • Initial planning
  • A list of reminders
  • Types of web sites and documents
  • The site development process
  • Developing a project charter
  • General advice about running web projects

    Universal Usability
  • A basis for universal usability
  • Sidebar: Universal design principles
  • Universal usability guidelines
  • Universal usability in the design process
  • Sidebar: The development cycle

    Information Architecture
  • Navigation and wayfinding
  • Site Structure
  • Presenting Information Architecture

    Interface Design
  • Organizing Your Information
  • Interface design
  • Information design
  • The enterprise interface

    Site Structure
  • Semantic content markup
  • Site File Structure
  • Search Engine Optimization

    Page Structure
  • Site design in context
  • Page structure and site design
  • Page templates

    Page Design
  • Document design
  • Visual design
  • Sidebar: Visual design principles
  • Page frameworks
  • Page width and line length
  • Design grids for web pages

    Typography
  • Characteristics of type on the web
  • Legibility
  • Typefaces
  • Sidebar: Type for comfortable reading
  • Emphasis
  • Display typography with graphics
  • Sidebar: Signal to noise ratio

    Editorial Style
  • Structuring your prose
  • Online style
  • Sidebar: Rhetoric and web design
  • Test formatting for web documents
  • Links

    Forms & Applications
  • Technologies that support interaction
  • Designing web applications
  • The design process

    Graphics
  • Graphics as content
  • Sidebar: The origins of information graphics
  • Characteristics of web graphics
  • Graphics file formats
  • Imaging strategies
  • Images on the screen
  • Graphics markup
  • Sidebar: Color terminology

    Multimedia
  • Considerations for multimedia
  • Web multimedia strategies
  • Preparing multimedia
  • Design and multimedia

For More Information

For training inquiries, call 850-308-1376

or email us at eramos@gbsi.com

Course Details

Duration - 1 day
Price - $250.00 USD


(Discounts may apply. Call for more information.)

Course Actions

Schedule

Acceletrain Collaborative Learning Environment (formerly know as VILT) places industry certified and expert instructors, peers, learners and multi-media components into a "borderless classroom", and interactive learning environment that can span multiple physical locations. VILT combines the benefits of the traditional brick-and-mortar classroom with innovative learning techniques and the cost savings of internet-based training.