Our Level 1 class is a great way to jump into building websites. In the Web Development course you’ll hand code all the HTML and CSS, whereas in the Dreamweaver course you’ll start with code, but switch into Design View for most of the class. You will create multi-page websites with images, rollovers, forms, CSS, background images, and more. You will upload your files to the web, and walk out of class ready to build your first site.

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Adobe Fireworks is a powerful web graphics editor, letting you design entire webpages, slice images, build animated GIFs, and manage web graphics of all sorts. In this class you will learn how to design a web page from scratch, create rollover effects, slice graphics, and optimize them as JPEG, PNG and GIF, and more.

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We teach CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in our Level 1 course, but there is so much CSS can do that it deserves another class! You’ll learn to use div tags for advanced layout techniques, creating center-align designs and multi-column layouts using relative positioning. You’ll learn how to float elements into position, how inline versus block elements work, how to create CSS rollovers (no JavaScript needed), and much more. In the Web Development course you’ll hand code all the HTML and CSS, whereas in the Dreamweaver you’ll be in Design View for most of the class.

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Learning JavaScript code gives you the power to write your own scripts or use freely available JavaScript frameworks, including the industry standard: jQuery. In this class you will get hands-on experience writing real, working code. You’ll learn how to create animated slideshows with transitions such as fades or slides, create animated image enlargers, show/hide additional content and more.

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The days when web designers were limited to a standard set of web fonts are over! No modern website would be complete without custom fonts, and we’re going to show you exactly how to make them. Come learn everything you need to know to add custom type faces to websites while maintaining functionality across a variety of browsers and devices.

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Not only is WordPress a powerful blogging platform, you can turn it into a great Content Management System. By making your site into a CMS, you will increase efficiency, making maintenance, updating, even adding special functionality easier. This intensive course will teach you how to do a custom install of WordPress, edit existing themes, develop your own themes, and install plugins.

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PHP brings websites to life, turning static HTML into a two-way, user-interactive experience. It is the backbone of many web-related activities we take for granted: handling form submissions, powering e-commerce transactions, and interacting with databases. This class will introduce you to the basics of PHP and MySQL, from the ground up. You’ll leave with a solid foundation of how PHP works, including working with forms, sessions, and more. You’ll also learn the basics of MySQL, using SQL to fetch, insert, update, delete, and search records.

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Deepen and broaden your ability to structure page content with new HTML5 semantic elements and experience the magic of native audio and video support. With CSS3, you’ll create drop shadows, text shadow, rounded corners, elements with semi-transparency, and gradient backgrounds using only CSS. You’ll even produce simple animated effects without JavaScript or Flash (we don’t cover full-blown ad banner style animation in this class though).

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Make your websites work with mobile devices, tablets, and desktop computers. In this class you will code a complete mobile site, as well as a responsive site. Responsive web design uses media queries to detect a device's screen size and adjust accordingly. You'll learn how to optimize sites for faster downloading on mobile devices by using CSS3 instead of graphics, how to deal with Retina graphics, CSS media queries, break points, new HTML5 form elements and more.

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HTML gives email personality—no wonder it has become a staple of advanced communications. Everyone can benefit from sending HTML email, whether it’s large corporations or small businesses and freelancers. This class will cover building and working with two different layouts: a simple one-time email and a weekly newsletter. You'll learn how to lay out emails, apply email-friendly CSS, make a table of contents, and fix various email client issues.

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