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HTML Level 1
Creating and editing a Web Page.
Creating Web Pages with Links, Images, and Formatted text.
Tables in a Web Site.
Introduction to HTML, HTML elements and definitions, Web Development Life cycle Linking to another Web page within the Same Web site, linking to a Web page in another Web site, linking within a Web page, linking to an e-mail address.

Table elements, borders, headers, caption and rules. Planning and coding a Table, table tag attributes

 
Defining the elements of a Web Page, HTML tags to define the Web Page structure, entering headings. Creating bulleted lists, adding a background image, formatting text in Bold, in Italics, with a Font Color. Creating a borderless table to position images, inserting images in a table, creating a vertical menu bar with text links.
Entering a Paragraph of Text, creating a List, how to add an Image, adding a background color. Adding an image with wrapped text, using Horizontal and Vertical spacing, Thumbnail images. Creating a table with borders and inserting text into cells, adding Cellspacing and Cellpading to a table.
Adding a Horizontal Rule, viewing a Web Page in a Browser, viewing HTML source code for a Web Page.

Setting link targets, adding links to link targets within a Web page, adding links to link targets at the top of the page, adding an image link to a Web page.

 

 Adding a table caption, creating headings that spans rows and columns, spanning the main heading across all columns.

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HTML Level 2
Creating an Image Map & working with Frames
Forms
Style Sheets
Introduction to Image maps, selecting Images, mapping images, coding the map. Input controls, HTML tags used to create forms, creating a form. Style Sheet precedence, Inline Style Sheets, Embedded Style Sheets, External Style Sheets.
Creating a Frame definition file, defining columns and rows in a frameset, defining frame attributes.

Adding text boxes, adding check boxes, adding a selection menu, adding more advanced selection menus.

 Working with Classes in Style Sheets, adding an Embedded Style Sheet: setting the paragraph style, setting a style for all links, setting the link hover style.
Specifying attributes of the Header, Main and Menu frames. Adding radio buttons, adding a textarea, adding submit and reset buttons, organizing a form using form groupings. Adding an External Style Sheet: setting a body style, setting a link and paragraph styles, setting table and caption styles, creating and linking to an External Style Sheet, adding an Inline Style Sheet.
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HTML Level 3
Javascript & HTML
Pop-up windows, Scrolling messages, and Validating Forms
Using DHTML and XML
JavaScript variables, extracting the Current System Date, calculating the number of days to a future event.

Creating a Form Text Box to display a Scrolling Message, adding an onload Event handler.

 Using DHTML, creating a Rotating banner, creating ScreenTips.
Changing the color of the Browser Scroll Bar, writing Java-Script user-defined functions. Using nested If...Else statements in Form validation, using Built-in functions to validate Data, adding an onclick event handler. How to create a well formed XML document, linking a Cascading Style Sheet to format an XMl document, creating an XSL style sheet.
Associating a function with the onload event, associating a function with the onchange event. Using the indexOf() method, If and Else, While Loop, adding a Pop-Up window, adding the Date Last Modified. Linking an XSL Style Sheet to an XML document, using Paging to display XML data in a Table, using Javascript to Search an XML document and display results on a Web Page.
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Dreamweaver Level 1
Creating a Dreamweaver page & a local Site.
Adding Web Pages, Links, and Images.
Tables and Page Layout.
Identifying the Dreamweaver window and workspace, defining a local site, creating and saving a Web Page. Defining and setting a home page, adding pages to a Web site, inserting, resizing, and aligning images within a Web page.

Page Layout, Standard mode, designing a Web page using tables in layout mode.

Adding a background image, formatting and modifying text elements on a Web Page, defining and inserting a line break changing a Web page title. Creating relative, absolute, and e-mail links, changing the color of links, editing and deleting links. Modifying a Table structure, describing HTML table tags, adding content to a table.
Checking spelling, previewing a Web page in a Web browser, printing a Web page, quitting Dreamweaver and opening a new Web page. Displaying the Site map, working with Code view, Split view and Design view. Formatting a table content, formatting a table. Creating head content.
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Dreamweaver Level 2
Forms
Templates & Style Sheets.

Absolute Positioning, Image Maps, and Navigation Bars.

Adding a horizontal ruler to a Web page, creating a Form, inserting a table into a form. Describing and creating a template. Absolute Positioning elements, inserting, selecting, resizing , and moving an Absolute Positioning element.
Understanding form objects, adding text fields and text area to a form, adding check boxes and radio buttons to a form. Analyzing the different types of style sheets, creating a Cascading Style Sheet. Naming an Absolute Positioning element, aligning Absolute Positioning elements.

Adding list and menus to a form, adding forms to a button, form accessibility options, applying behaviors to a form, viewing and testing a form.

 Applying Cascading Style Sheet attributes to a template, creating a Web page from template. Creating an image map, adding and editing behaviors, creating a navigation bar, inserting a Date object.
Dreamweaver Level 3
Page Layout with Frames.
Animation & Behaviors.
Media Objects
Advantages & disadvantages of using frames on a Web page, creating a frameset and frames, deleting a frame. Exploring the timeline and the Timelines panel, creating an nonlinear timeline, adding behavior to an Absolute Positing Element. What are media objects?, inserting Flash text into a Web page,inserting a Flash movie into a Web page, embedding a sound file in a Web page.
Setting the properties for a frame and for a frameset, applying the properties of a frame, adding static content to a frame, adding Flash buttons as navigation elements, saving the frame and frameset. Adding a play button to a timeline, creating a linear time line, adding an Absolute Positioning element to a timeline, showing and hiding an Absolute Positioning element, playing an animation. Inserting a video into a Web page, checking for plugs-ins, inserting a Shockwave movie into a Web page, inserting an applet into a Web page, ActiveX, using the Results panel to validate a Web page, and check links.

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Flash Level 1
Introduction to Flash & Drawing Objects with Flash.
Symbols and Interactivity.

Creating Animations

 
Exploring the Flash Workspace, opening a document and playing a movie, creating a Flash movie, creating an Animation, adding effect to an object, understanding the Timeline. Creating an editing a Graphic Symbol, working with Instances, breaking apart an Instance. Frame-by-frame animations: creating an animation, adding detail to the animation, creating a movie frame animation, changing the frame rate. Creating a motion-tweened animation.
Using Layers, Frames, the Playhead, working with Scenes and the Timeline, using the Flash drawing tools, selecting object and applying color, transforming objects, resizing objects. Working with Libraries, creating Buttons, editing a Button and specifying a Hit area, testing the buttons.

Adding a Motion Guide to an animation, orienting an object to a path, altering the path, accelerating an animated object. Creating animated text, creating rotating text, resize and fade in text, making a text block into a button.
Rotating and skewing an object, distorting an object, flipping an object, entering Text and changing the Text block, changing Text attributes, working with paragraphs, transforming Text, using a Guide Layer, distributing Text to Layers, using Folder Layers. Actions, assigning a stop action to frames, assigning a goto action to a button, assigning a goto frame action to a button, assigning a second event to a button. Creating Motion Animation effects, resizing and rotating an object using a motion tween, changing an object's color using a motion tween, using the Onion Skin feature, combining various animation effects, creating, editing and deleting a Timeline effect.
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Flash Level 2

Special Effects
Publishing Movies, Importing and Modifying Graphics
Building complex animations
Creating a Shape Tweening animation, creating a morphing effect, how to adjust the rate of change in a shape tween animation. Using Publish settings, creating a GIF animation from a movie, creating a JPEG image from a movie, testing a Movie. Working with an animated Graphic symbol, working with a movie clip symbol, creating an animated Graphic symbol.

Creating a mask effect using mask and masked layers, incorporating sound to a movie and a button.

Reducing the file size to optimize a movie, creating and testing a preloader animation, changing HTML publish settings. Creating a movie clip symbol, nesting movie clip symbols, animating an instance of a movie clip.
Working with Scenes: add and name a scene, adding interactivity to scenes, creating an animated navigation bar. Importing different format Graphics: Firework PNG files, Illustrator files, Photoshop files, Bitmaps. How to break apart Bitmaps and use Bitmap fills, tracing Bitmap graphics, using imported Graphics in a Scene. Exploring Animated Buttons, building an animated button symbol, creating an interactive movie.
Flash Level 3
ActionScript
Adding Sound & Video. Working with Behaviors & Components.
Advanced ActionScript
Using and configuring the Actions Panel, writing ActionScript code, referencing the Timeline in Actions, using ScriptAssist to control the Timeline of a movie clip symbol. Importing Sound files, adding a sound to the timeline, repeating sounds, specifying synchronization options. Creating a custom cursor, tracking user interactions, creating a link to a Web site.
Using Script Assist to control the Timeline of a nested movie clip symbol, how to copy ActionScript between objects, how to use ActionScript to make a movie clip symbol draggable. Linking a sound file with a movie, start and stop a sound using actionScript. Incorporating video. Creating a Mailto: Link, posting information to a Web site.
Creating conditional actions, creating input and dynamic text boxes, collecting and modifying string variables using ActionScript, collecting and performing a mathematical operation on a numeric variable using ActionScript. Using Behaviors to create a button link, using behaviors and components to create links to Web sites. Using components to load graphic, text, an animation file. Using components and behaviors to add sounds, and to create a form. Creating conditional branching using if and else actions, creating a loop using if,adding user feedback to the loop, creating a while loop to duplicate movie clip symbols.


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Expression Web Level 1
Creating a Web Page

Working with additional Web pages

Images, Image Maps, Reports.

Exploring the Expression Web window, using a template to create a Expression Web Web.

 Adding new Web pages, changing the Title and Page Label of a Web Page, changing the Theme for a single Web page. Creating and applying a customized Theme to a Web Page, expanding a Table, adding a Hit Counter, adding a shared border.
Applying a theme, editing text on a Web page, adding new text to a Web page, editing a bulleted list. Inserting Tables, merging cells, inserting images in a Web Page, adjusting Table borders, modifying Table properties. Modifying the navigation structure, using Bookmarks, creating a Transparent Image, assigning an Hyperlink to an AutoShape.
Saving a Web page, deleting a Web page from a Web, adding an E-mail hyperlink to a Web page, publishing a Web page.

Inserting headings, inserting a Horizontal rule, how to add a Photo Gallery component, how to insert links bars on a Web page.

Image maps, managing tasks with Expression Web, viewing reports on the Web Site, verifying hyperlinks.

 
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Expression Web Level 2
Interactive Forms on the Web and Frames
Working with Subwebs, the Database Interface Wizard, and Source Control
Customizing Tables and Searching Webs

Inserting a Form in a Web Page, inserting Form fields in a Form, choosing the Form handler for the Form.

 Creating a folder and converting to a Subweb, creating a Navigation Structure for a Subweb. Creating a Subweb in an existing Web, inserting Tables and displaying the Tables toolbar, inserting a Caption for a Table.
Using Frame Templates, setting an initial page to display in a Frame. Creating Database Editor Pages using the Database Interface Wizard. Filling repetitive data in a Table, applying a Table AutoFormat to a table, merging cells, using an image as a Table cell background.
Modifying properties of Frames and Frames pages, creating Hyperlinks to Pages in Frames, creating a Hyperlink to a Whole page, displaying the No Frames View.

Publishing a Web and a Subweb, using and reporting on Source Control.

 Creating a Search page with the Search Page Template, Modifying Search Form Properties.
XML Level 1

Creating an XML document.
NameSpaces
Validating an XML document.
Introduction to XML, creating an XML document, working with Elements. Combining XML vocabularies, working with Namespaces. Declaring document elements, working with child elements, working with mixed content, declaring attributes.
Working with Attributes, using character & entity references, text characters and white space in XML. Working with attributes, adding a NameSpace to a Style Sheet. Working with attributes types and defaults, validating a document with XMLSpy, working with Namespaces , introduction to Entities.
Processing an XML document, formatting XML data.

Combining standard vocabularies, combining XML & HTML.

 Working with general and parameter entities, inserting comments, creating conditional sections, working with unparsed data, validating standard vocabularies.

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XML Level 2

Schemas
Cascading Style Sheets
Working with XSLT and XPath

Starting a Schema file, working with Simple Type Elements, associating attributes and elements.

 Attaching a Style Sheet to a document, defining a style, working with the display attribute. Working with XSL, , creating an XSLT Style Sheet, using XPath to reference a node.
Referencing an element or attribute, applying a schema, working with XML schema data types. Working with list-items, sizing block elements, working with color styles, working with borders, margin, and padding. Creating the Root template, specifying the Output Method, transforming a document, inserting a Node value, processing a batch of Nodes.
Deriving New and Restricted Data Types, working with character patterns, structuring Schema, placing a Schema in a Namespace. Adding background images, setting font and text styles, working with IDs and classes, working with pseudo-elements. Using the Built-in Templates, sorting Nodes, creating conditional Nodes, working with Predicates, creating elements and attributes with XSLT.
XML Level 3

Creating a computational Style Sheet.
Creating Element Groups
Using XML as a Data Source

Working with XPath Numeric Functions, working with Mathematical operators, formatting numbers.

 working with Location Path, creating moded templates. Using XML as a Data Source, binding HTML elements to fields.
working with TextNodes and White Space, using variables and parameters, introduction to Functional Programming. Working with IDs and Keys, generating IDs. Binding to an XML attribute, examining multiple records.
Writing a recursive Template, working with multiple Style Sheets, working with Extension functions, working with Extension Elements and Attributes. Working with Multiple Document sources, placing data into a Style Sheet, inserting code snippets. Working with table binding, working with Hierarchical recordsets.
JavaScript

Introduction to JavaScript. Integrating JavaScript & HTML
Pop-Up windows, Scrolling Messages, Validating Forms, and enhancing the use of Image & Form Objects.
Cookies, Arrays & Frames. Creating a Shopping Cart.

Variables, Literals, and Expressions, Conditionals: If, If ..Else, While loop, Functions, Objects, properties, and Methods.

Inserting a scrolling message on a Web Page, adding an event handler, validating Data using the If...Else statement.

 Creating a cookie, reading a cookie, deleting a cookie, determining the contents of a cookie, creating the array, displaying Data Based in a cookie, setting a flag in a cookie.
Inserting script tags on a Web Page, using a flicker on a Web Page, extracting the system Date, using several variables to construct a Message, calling a JavaScript function, displaying the last modified document date. Validating Data using Built-in functions, adding a pop-up window, creating a Rolling Banner, creating a Dynamic Greeting, the onmouse event handler, the onchange event handler. Creating an object in a hidden frame, creating the shopping cart object, using the history object.
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PHP

Getting started with PHP

PHP & MySQL.
Working with a Management system.

Mixing PHP and HTML, working with variables & operators, using PH variables.

Establishing a connection, creating a database table, inserting data into the table, selecting and displaying data.

 Planning your system, how to add contacts, how to modify contacts, how to delete contacts.
Displaying dynamic content, sending-email, uploading files to a Web site. Database-driven user authentication, using cookies, working with sessions. Managing a mailing list, creating custom logs and reports, introduction to XML.

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