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The Web Design Workshop guides students step by step through
the maze of Hypertext Markup Language, Web page design, and going online. Through
course material, discussions, and one on one chat sessions, each student can work
at their own pace. The course also offers extended material for those who are
comfortable tinkering with basic html. The Web Design Workshop stresses creativity,
students are encouraged to share ideas and to experiment. Although the course
covers the basics, it is also suitable for writers or artists who have become
frustrated with building a Web site. This course includes a FREE induction
week.
See the Gallery for examples
of work by students on this course.
Student Comments:
"Of all the HTML-learning modules, courses, books, and sites I've encountered,
the clearest and best is the [course] developed and taught by Randy Adams at the
trAce Online Writing School. The materials and weekly lessons assume no knowledge
of HTML (they begin with the < HTML > tag itself), but the workshop and
discussion board provide ample opportunities for those with a little experience
already to move forward quickly. Anyone taking this course will find that they
can advance their knowledge and improve their practice of HTML to an extent that
is worth both the cost of the course and the time devoted to it."
The tutor: Randy Adams
 Randy
Adams is a Canadian writer and visual artist. Author of the nonfiction book Eternal
Prairie, he has also published poetry and essays in several Canadian magazines.
For ten years he worked as an arts journalist and travel writer for various publications
in his home town of Edmonton, Alberta. His photography and mixed media work has
been exhibited and collected by public galleries, museums, and archives. Over
the past 15 years, he has been awarded several grants for both writing and photography.
In 1997, after a year spent traveling in Asia Minor, he moved to the west coast
of Canada and began to work in New Media Arts. Deciding that the Web was a perfect
medium for combining text and imagery, he immersed himself in the study of hypertext
and computer graphics. His Web art work has been featured in several online publications.
He has been an active member of the trAce community since 1999, and was the first
writer/artist to be awarded a trAce Writer's Studio. http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/studio/radams/
This course is 10 weeks including a FREE Induction
Week.
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The aims of this course are:
- to supply writers and visual artists with the skills
needed to develop and present creative websites
- to demystify HTML
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to encourage experimentation in hypertext and Web art.
Contents
Week 1: Introduction to HTML and file management.
Week 2: Working with links & text.
Week 3: Working with fonts.
Week 4: Working with images.
Week 5: Using tables for layout.
Week 6: Working with frames.
Week 7: Planning layout & design.
Week 8: Tips & Tricks.
Week 9: Testing & troubleshooting.
Week 10: Going online — presentations.
Typical Reading
Specific reading selections will form part of course material.
- hypertext selections from the WWW.
- various online sources for HTML, Javascripts, & DHTML.
- browsing with View Source
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this course you should be able to:
- utilize text and images to develop creative webpages.
- recognize and troubleshoot problems.
- upload work to a server and edit online.
Typical assessments
- After the second week, students will submit one (or more) Web pages.
- After the fourth week, students will submit at least two Web pages using
text and images.
- By the final week, students will have uploaded several linked Web pages
to a server.
Pre-requisites for this course
You will need to:
- Be able to use word-processing program or text editor
- Be able to write and understand English reasonably fluently
- Be able to use the Internet and Web browsers
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