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Web Development and Applications
With Justin Seeley
Join Justin Seeley as he reveals how designers can create vibrant web graphics, wireframes, and complete web site mockups in Adobe Photoshop. The course covers creating a custom web workspace for maximum efficiency; drawing, coloring, and optimizing web graphics; creating vector shapes and text that scale seamlessly; mastering transparency; building navigation bars and buttons; and speeding up these tasks with the Photoshop automation tools.
DVD-ROM (SingleUser, Closed Captioned) / 2012 / 5 hours
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With Todd Perkins
This course is an introduction to developing Java applications for various runtime environments. Author Todd Perkins explains how to configure the development environment, connect a web application to a MySQL database, and build a user interface with the Swing framework. The course also covers publishing applets in a web browser, working with XML data, and creating apps for Android devices.
DVD-ROM (SingleUser, Closed Captioned) / 2012 / 105 minutes
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With Luke Wroblewski
In this course, interaction designer Luke Wroblewski shows how to create web forms that encourage visitors to enter information and covers ways to capture input without the use of forms. The course covers boosting conversion rates and customer satisfaction, organizing the structure of forms, aligning and grouping form elements, assigning the correct input field types, validating input, and handling data entry errors. The last chapter highlights alternatives to static forms, such as using dynamic inline forms, using web services, and leveraging device capabilities, which can be used to gather additional information or replace a traditional form altogether.
DVD-ROM (SingleUser, Closed Captioned) / 2011 / 225 minutes
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With James Williamson
Web Design Fundamentals is a survey of Web design and development techniques and technologies, fundamental concepts, terms, and best practices involved in professional web design. Instructor James Williamson examines popular web development tools, server-side software solutions, content management solutions, and cloud-based software, providing a high-level overview of the world of Web publishing.
DVD-ROM (SingleUser, Closed Captioned) / 2010 / 150 minutes
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By Cody Simms
A primer on ways to sprinkle your brand and your content throughout the Web using on-demand methods such as RSS, activity streaming through social channels such as Twitter and FriendFeed, widget embedded content, and shared application platforms.
DVD / 2009 / 50 minutes
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By Scott Karp
As a platform for daily online publishing, blogs can dynamically connect your site to the larger online ecosystem and draw people to your site. The more readers that link to your blog, the higher your search engine ranking. Learn how blogging can expand your editorial mission.
DVD / 2009 / 52 minutes
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By Michael Gold
Redesigning your Website starts with preplanning, goal setting, and getting early buy-in from stakeholders. Nine key steps are outlined, including developing a redesign blueprint, creating mockups to communicate to developers, and conducting user testing.
DVD / 2009 / 32 minutes
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By Rand Fishkin
Search engines present both challenges and opportunities for site designers and developers. Learn how search engines judge a Web page's relevance and importance, how to improve your site's ranking, and what it takes to draw more visitors from search engines.
DVD / 2009 / 51 minutes
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By Shari Cleary
We all have technology in place to track Web statistics. But interpreting the data and acting on it to improve our sites is challenging. Learn what Key Performance Indicators you should track, who should see the data, and how to analyze it against your performance goals.
DVD / 2009 / 60 minutes
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With Bill Weinman
In XHTML and HTML Essential Training, Bill Weinman helps designers and coders understand XHTML and HTML. In the process, Bill covers document structure, block- and inline-level tags, floating images, controlling white space, phrase and font markup, and tables and frames. He even provides a good introduction to CSS. Bill offers step-by-step guidance for building a complete working web site.
DVD-ROM (SingleUser, Win, Closed Captioned) / 2009 / 270 minutes
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With Kevin Skoglund
In this sequel to the popular Ruby on Rails Essential Training, expert instructor Kevin Skoglund teaches comprehensive techniques for web developers who already feel comfortable with the fundamentals of Ruby and the Rails MVC framework. This training will help developers move toward creating full-featured Ruby on Rails applications. Kevin begins by explaining how to update software and projects to the latest versions. He then demonstrates alternative ways to interact with Ruby and your Rails applications and teaches the intermediate aspects of the Ruby language. Kevin provides step-by-step instructions for creating a custom blog and content management application. He uses this practical example to show how to work with database migrations, how to get more from ActiveRecord and avoid common pitfalls, how to create flexible controllers and views, and how to improve performance, security, and code management.
DVD-ROM (SingleUser) / 2007 / 690 minutes
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This DVD provides you with the basic information that you'll need in order to become involved in web page design. A simple explanation of the web-authoring process is provided and can be understood by beginners.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1) Students will learn the specialized vocabulary that is used by web page designers.
2) Students will learn about the 'tags' that are essential when using hypertext markup language.
3) Students will learn about readily available materials that can simplify the process of designing web pages
DVD / 2004 / (Grades 6-12) / 28 minutes
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This program is a valuable resource for students investigating the various elements used to design effective websites. Two leading representatives from the web design industry (Paul Andrews of Abstract Art P/L and Simon Bowden of Simon Bowden Design P/L) shed light on the approaches they take when developing an online presence for their clients. The program investigates how established techniques of Graphical Interface Design (GUI) can be applied to website design as well as examining specific design principles for an online medium.
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DVD / 2004 / 25 minutes
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This presentation will explore how to build and maintain a business Web site. Students will examine reasons to build a Web site and get an in-depth look at the Web design process. In encountering the Web design process, students will be introduced to programs and tools used in building and maintaining Web sites. Lastly, students will analyze the tradeoff that exists between features and cost in building and maintaining Web sites.
CD-ROM (Win, PowerPoint Presentation (64 slides))
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This presentation explores the appropriate manner in which professional Web content is presented and conveyed to a reader. Covering the basics of Web page organization, students will learn how to communicate the information they desire using tools such as graphics, media, sizing, loading time, resolution and bit rates. Students will cover the basic Web content publishing guidelines and rules. The presentation will also help students determine methods of gaining the reader's attention and keeping them interested in the content of a Web page.
CD-ROM (Win, PowerPoint Presentation (49 slides))
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The ethics and issues of the Internet are important to be aware of because this knowledge can help protect a business, employees and customers. The presentation will give students guidelines for relaying and presenting information that is appropriate over the Web. Copyright issues are a widely discussed topic, especially related to students and businesses. These issues will be covered as well as acceptable routes to avoid them. Students will also gain knowledge on how to respect customer privacy on the Web.
CD-ROM (Win, PowerPoint Presentation (49 slides))
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Choosing a name for a Web site is crucial to its success. This presentation outlines effective Web creation suggestions and recommendations for students. It equips them with the tools to determine which Web site names are already in use, and the specific steps one would take to register an original Web site.
CD-ROM (Win, PowerPoint Presentation (39 slides))
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