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ASP - Active Server Pages

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

JavaScript

RSS for the Developer (XML)

XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language)

Programming Language: ASP - Active Server Pages

(6 or 12 hours) Advanced Web Design skills

Active Server Pages (ASP) is server-side technology for dynamically-generated web pages that is marketed as an add-on to Internet Information Services (IIS).

Programming ASP web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.

Students will learn how to utilize this technology in Web developing.

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Programming Language: CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

(6 or 12 hours) Advanced Intermediate to Advanced Web Design skills

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents.

Style sheets describe how documents are presented on screens, in print, or perhaps how they are pronounced.

CSS can also be used to layout pages and navigation structures. Web pages that call for CSS load faster and are being revered by the W3C as the correct new format for Web Design and accessibility.

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Programming Language: JavaScript

(6 , 12 or 18 hours) Intermediate to Advanced Web Design skills

Would you like a drop down menu like you see above on your own Web Site? Would you like floating hearts on your February Calendar Page? Would you like a ticker running across the browser window with important information?

JavaScript is a script language - a system of programming codes, created by Netscape, that can be embedded into the HTML of a web page to add functionality.

JavaScript should not be confused with the Java programming language.

In general, script languages such as JavaScript are easier and faster to code than more structured languages such as Java and C++

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Programming Language: RSS for the Developer (XML)

(6 or 12 hours) Advanced Web Design skills

RSS is an XML-based format (using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) - a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web) that allows the syndication of lists of hyperlinks, along with other information, or metadata, that helps viewers decide whether they want to follow the link.

RSS allows a person's computer to fetch and understand the information, so that all of the lists that person is interested in can be tracked and personalized for them. It is a format that's intended for use by computers on behalf of people, rather than being directly presented to them (like HTML).

A program known as a feed reader or aggregator can check a list of feeds on behalf of a user and display any updated articles that it finds.

It is common to find web feeds on major web sites and many smaller ones.

In this class students will learn what is necessary to set up server-side to create a feed, write XML, and understand how the process works.

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Programming Language: XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language)

(6 or 12 hours) Beginner to Advanced: General Overview

XHTML is the next generation of HTML and is a hybrid between HTML and XML.

XML was designed to describe data while HTML was designed to display data.

XHTML is much stricter than HTML and does both.

This general overview course provides each student with a foundation in the design, programming, and structuring required to create web pages using XHTML. 

Learn how to use raw code to:

• Create XHTML documents
• Format text
• Incorporate Graphics, Multimedia and email

This course helps the student deliver their web content in an interesting and visually exciting way by teaching them how to plan and design attractive and informative web sites.

It is a good tool to know prior to working in a Web Design/Editing program.

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