1. Web design basics -- Introduction to the World Wide Web -- Web pages and web browsers -- Hypertext markup language (HTML) -- Uniform resource locator (URL) -- HTML page construction -- The doctype declaration -- Adding a title -- Adding content -- Adding a hyperlink -- Page testing -- Principles of web design -- Page layout and real estate -- Purpose and audience consideration -- typography and font selection -- Color choice -- Evaluating existing design for tone -- 2. Site planning and production -- Web site planning -- the design and development process -- Initial client communication -- Establishing audience and purpose -- Emphasizing and showcasing content -- Creating a design set -- The case project -- Professional HTML authoring tools -- Adobe Dreamweaver -- Microsoft Expression Web -- Notepad++ -- 3. Introduction to HTML -- Creating an initial site layout -- Decomposing a design -- Structuring a page -- Creating layouts in HTML -- Images -- Image formats -- Image creation software -- Creating site images -- Inserting images -- 4. CSS3 -- Introduction to cascading style sheets -- Invoking styles in HTML -- CSS classes and tags -- CSS ids -- Pseudo-classes -- Inheritance -- Positioning and layering -- Element position -- Layers -- Height and width -- Margins and padding -- Display properties -- Background images -- Colors -- Borders -- Shadows -- Content alignment -- Text modification -- Reusing CSS styles -- 5. HTML5 -- Branding a site -- Planning for content -- Creating a site map -- Hyperlinks -- Image links/hotspots -- Meta tags -- Cloning pages -- Adding a site icon -- Adding content -- Using paragraphs and line breaks -- Ampersand commands -- Adding tables -- Adding forms -- Audio and video -- Embedded code -- 6. JavaScript and jQuery -- JavaScript basics -- Variable declarations -- Assigning values -- Function cells -- Defining functions -- Conditional statements -- Looping -- Using JavaScript -- Using the alert () function -- String parsing and form validation -- Dynamic content -- Events -- External JavaScript -- jQuery -- Installing jQuery -- jQuery code and use -- 7. PHP and PERL -- Hosting a web site -- PHP -- PHP basics -- Form processing -- E-mailing with PHP -- Perl -- Perl basics -- Form processing -- E-mailing with Perl -- 8. MySQL -- MySQL data types -- Creating a MySQL database -- Structured query language (SQL) -- Select queries -- Update queries -- Insert queries -- Using MySQL with PHP -- Accessing a MySQL database with PHP -- Storing data in a MySQL database -- Retrieving data from a MySQL database
