About this workshop

Jeff Williamson
Northern Virginia Community College
nvwillj@nvcc.edu
www.nvcc.edu/home/nvwillj/designwwwadv/about.html

Beginning groups are easier to teach than advanced groups because there is a clear starting point of zero for beginners. Advanced students are always advanced in different ways - what's brand new to one person is old hat to another; one person's difficulty is another person's boredom.

There just isn't a single line of instruction that I can pursue and expect everyone to follow.  You're going to get a bit bored, or a bit lost, or even both, at times.

About the best advice I can give you is to make today's time your own. Set yourself a few goals for things that you want to improve in your web pages. I'll try to cover them; if I don't, have a poke at them yourself. Ask questions. Surf and work on other stuff while I'm talking about things you already know. Or don't care to know. It's your day...

Here is a rough schedule for the day:

Morning

9:00-9:30- Share your sites, set your goals

9:30-10:30 - Table coding, browser-safe colors, templates, color combinations

10:30-11:30 - Graphics - Quick basics review. Intro to Paintshop Pro - editing and making simple graphics.

11:30 - Design basics

12:00-1:00 - Lunch

Afternoon:

Hands on Javascript and review of morning material, interspersed with demos of Java, Shockwave, CSS, HTML Editors, and other topics.

4:00 - Evaluations and where to go from here