Web Design Manuals

As an experienced Web Designer and trainer I am often called upon to train people in this area. I have trained exclusively in Dreamweaver and Frontpage for the past 3 years using various manuals.

The thing with training people in Web design is that half the work is really performed in a graphics program. I always recommend that my students couple their web design classes with some training in a program such as photoshop. Professionally, I use Micrografx programs such as Igrafx and Picture Publisher as I feel they allow me to be far more productive in a limited timespace. Unfortunately at this point in time I have yet to locate any good manuals in this program. For this reason I often train in those programs onsite, but without manuals. If you know of a manual in this area I would love to hear from you!

The following manuals are the ones that I use on a regular basis with my clients.

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Microsoft FrontPage 2000 (Watsonia) PC
At the completion of this course, you will be able to:

• comprehend and apply the principles behind publishing Web sites
• navigate various elements of the FrontPage window
• create, customise and delete a Web site based on FrontPage wizards and templates
• manipulate text and effects on a Web page
• create and check different types of hyperlinks
• insert and manipulate text, photographs and sound files
• create and link hotspots to an image map
• create, edit and format tables
• add special effects such as animation, scheduled images and timestamps
• create and edit form and fields and view feedback from forms when saved as text
• prepare and publish a Web site.

Frontpage 2000 Introduction (Appcon) PC or Mac

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Create and edit webs and web pages
• Create links between and within web pages.
• Apply formatting to characters and paragraphs and apply
  themes
• Create, modify, and enhance a table
• Perform basic web page management techniques
• Create links to the World Wide Web
• Create a Navigation bar
• Insert and create links from images
• Import, rename, delete, and publish a web.

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Frontpage 2000 Advanced (Apcon) PC or Mac

Students will learn how to

• Apply Web site design considerations when creating a Web site
  with a wizard.
• Students will also be able to add and modify structural elements in an existing web.
• Apply Web page design concepts to create and modify Web
  pages by using frames
• Build a web-based form to collect and store user data in a file
  and database
• Use Access databases with FrontPage.
• Modify and position pictures and text, as well as add sound and
  web components (such as rotating banner ads, hit counters,
  search forms, marquee text, and Office Web Components) to their
  web pages.
• Use reports, tasks, and security options to manage and
  collaborate on Web site creation.
• Animate text and Web pages with Dynamic HTML; and format
  text with styles, style sheets, and themes.

Dreamweaver 3
Module 1
At the completion of this course, you will be able to:

• understand the history and development of the internet
• work with Dreamweaver windows, tools and commands
• create and test a simple website
• create, import and manage text on a web page
• insert and work with images on web page
• create and work with layers on web page
• create and manage all types of hyperlinks
• create and use tables to manage web content
• maintain and publish a completed website.

Dreamweaver 3.0: Introduction (Appcon) PC or Mac

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Explain basic concepts about the Internet and the World Wide Web, and how to publish a site.
• Navigate in the Dreamweaver work environment.
• Create a basic web page by typing text and importing graphics.
• Design a site from scratch, beginning with developing a site map, through final upload of the site to a web server.
• Import text into Dreamweaver pages using several methods.
• Perform character and paragraph formatting on text, and define and apply HTML styles to speed up repetitive formatting.
• Add links within a site, create anchors, and specify external links.
• Create and format tables to assist in page design.
• Use images as links and create image maps.
• Build a frame-based site to assist the viewer in navigation.
• Upload a site to a remote web server.

Dreamweaver 3.0: Advanced (Appcon) PC or Mac

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Work with libraries to manage repeating site elements.
• Create CSS styles to streamline text formatting within a page, and create external style sheets to allow formatting information to be used throughout a site.
• Create dynamic user-interface elements, including simple rollovers and complex navigation bars.
• Define keyword, description, and other Meta tags in order to make your site visible to automatic search engine spiders.
• Create layers using a number of techniques, and manage the size, position, stacking order, and visibility of layers.
• Combine layers with behaviours to provide additional visual feedback for a viewer navigating a site.
• Work with timelines to create basic animations and complex time-based sequences on your site pages.
• Target page content to specific browsers and versions.

Fireworks 3.0: Introduction (Appcon) PC or Mac

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Create graphics for presentation on the Web.
• Manipulate vector graphics and import and modify bitmap graphics.
• Create and export interactive image maps using hotspot linking.
• Add graphical text to Web-based images as well as import and modify text from other formats.
• Optimise graphics for the Web.
• Create GIFs and JPEGs using Fireworks' export tools.

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Fireworks 3.0: Advanced (Appcon) PC or Mac

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the various features and techniques that Fireworks uses to create Web graphics.
• Create sliced images that are assembled in a Web page that presents useful information to users quickly.
• Create a reusable library of links, use enhanced find and replace, and perform batch processing of image files.
• Develop simple and disjointed JavaScript image rollovers.
• Use Fireworks' image effects to create masking and styles
• Create and export animated GIFs, use onion-skinning techniques, and open multiple files with one procedure.
• Implement symbols and instances as a method of conserving development time.

Flash 4.0: Introduction (Appcon) PC or Mac

You will learn to use Flash to create animations that can be published on the Web or as stand-alone files. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Navigate within the Flash environment to build your projects efficiently.
• Use Flash's drawing tools to create simple and complex objects.
• Manipulate objects on the stage, including selecting,, moving,, copying, deleting,, and transforming them.
• Utilize object interaction on a single layer to combine and segment objects.
• Import artwork from other programs to use in a Flash project.
  Create and format text.
• Perform frame-by-frame and tweened animations.
• Publish your projects for use on the Web.

Flash 4.0: Advanced (Appcon) PC or Mac

This hands-on instruction book teaches students to use Macromedia Flash in order to create and publish Flash movies and interactive Web applications. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Create animated sequences using frame-by-frame animation and tweened animation.
• Implement the three types of symbols and instances as a development shortcut and as a method for optimising file size.
• Use the testing environment to optimise Flash movies. Publish and export Flash movies

PhotoShop 5.5 Basic Skills (Appcon) PC or Mac

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Resize and crop image areas.
• Select appropriate resolutions for different image and output types.
• Select image areas using the Lasso, Marquee, and Magic Wand tools
• Use alpha channels to create, save, and edit selection masks.
• Select colours using several colour models and with the Eyedropper tool.
• Use PhotoShop's painting tools to create artwork or to retouch photographs.
• Create and manipulate multiple layers to composite images easily.
• Modify the brightness, contrast, colour balance, hue, and saturation of images.
• Save images in file formats for use with other applications

Photoshop 5.5 Tips & Tricks (Appcon) PC or Mac

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Use powerful shortcuts to enhance productivity.
• Apply a technique to improve low-resolution files.
• Use filters alone and in combinations to create effects.
• Use layer masks and clipping groups to blend foreground and background objects together.
• Combine colour and greyscale images.
• Interweave objects with one another.
• Use channel operations and blending modes to simulate three-dimensional surfaces.
• Apply lighting effects and create realistic shadows.
• Create type effects including distressing and popping out of a background.
• Create multi-step scripts with the Actions palette.

Photoshop Web Production (Appcon) PC or Mac

You will learn basic techniques and concepts about image resolution and methods for reducing file size. You will also learn about several graphic formats that are appropriate for Web images, and how to choose the best one for various types of images. You will learn to optimise images for display on multiple platforms.

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Photoshop Colour Correction & Printing (Appcon) PC or Mac

You will learn a balanced approach, starting with system calibration, through the scanning process, image enhancements, colour correction, printing proofs, and exporting the image. You will also create traditional printed effects such as duotones and spot colour overlays.

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Web Design with Cascading Style Sheets (Appcon) PC or Mac

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Apply various style sheet types to design Web pages
• Use selector classes
• Use DIV and SPAN tags with style sheet rules
• Design Web pages that degrade gracefully
• Position elements on a page
• Apply block properties
• Apply font properties
• Apply text properties
• Use pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements
• Apply contextual selectors
• Use cascading styles to design a page
• Import fonts into a page
• Use JavaScript to identify a user's browser
• Link a user to a specific external style sheet