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Training in client-side web development. These classes can be customized to fit your needs, either by adding or emphasizing certain topics, or by combining both HTML/CSS and JavaScript into one five-day course.

Web Development using HTML and CSS

Training in HTML/XHTML using Cascading Style Sheets. This two-day class can be combined with the three-day JavaScript/DHTML class for a week of complete client-side web development.

• Introduction
• basics of web client to server interaction
• what is HTML?
• HTML and XHTML
• document organization
• Formatting Text
• block level tags: paragraphs, headings, and divisions
• bold, italic, and other formatting options
• Graphic elements
• lines (horizontal rules)
• inserting, sizing, and formatting graphics
• background color and images (wallpaper)
• Links
• to external sites
• to local pages
• to anchored locations within a page
• Styles and Cascading Style Sheets
• types of style rules
• creating style rules
• implementing style rules
• managing rules with CSS files
• Frames and Iframes
• Tables
• creating and formatting tables
• column and row-spanning cells
• Forms
• form actions
• form elements
• Lists
• ordered lists
• unordered
• definition lists
• Embedding Multimedia and Applets

JavaScript and Dynamic HTML

This three-day course emphasizes JavaScript syntax and programming practices, with examples and exercises that cover both data-oriented and visually interactive elements

• Introduction
• the role of JavaScript in a web page
• browsers: requirements, similarities, and differences
• The Document Object Model (DOM)
• Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript
• the document tree structure - nodes and children
• Basic JavaScript syntax
• variables and functions
• operators
• control structures - branches and loops
• understanding Object-Oriented Programming with JavaScript
• Developing cross-browser code; handling browsers without script capability
• Event-enabled elements & event handlers
• three ways of installing event handlers
• using event objects
• Dynamically changing objects
• Enhancing existing objects with additional properties and methods
• Forms, form elements, and validation
• Managing windows and frames
• Writing new document content
• Defining and using custom object types

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