Web Design Professional

Progress from a beginner’s level right the way through to developing professional responsive websites. This bundle contains the following courses:

• Webmaster - HTML and CSS
• Webmaster - JavaScript
• Webmaster - Responsive Web Design

You decide when and where you learn, at your own pace. Your experienced and friendly tutor is there to help you every step of the way by email, so help is only a click away! Start your journey and develop your skills and knowledge today and join over [past_students_count] students that already have!

Course Content

Webmaster – Javascript

Lesson 1 Getting started with JavaScript

• Performing arithmetic
• Comparison and local operations
• Working with numbers
• Working with strings

Lesson 2 JavaScript event handlers

• Introduction to events and event handlers
• Browser window event handlers
• Event listeners
• Form event handlers
• Mouse event handlers
• Keyboard even handlers HTML5 event handlers

Lesson 3 Expanding your JavaScript knowledge

• Introducing document object model objects
• JavaScript functions
• Working with arrays
• Controlling the flow
• Let’s play hide and seek – build your first interactive game
• Looping the loop

Lesson 4 The document object model

• The top-level window object
• The document object
• Forms objects
• Working with window objects
• Timer objects
• Document Interaction

Lesson 5 Error handling and debugging

• Understanding and dealing with errors
• The JavaScript console
• Using breakpoints
• Handling exceptions
• Debugging hints and common errors
• A guide to good scripting
• Graphic design considerations

Lesson 6 Building the minefield game app

• Designing the game
• Building the HTML framework
• Adding style with CSS
• Populating the grid with random mines
• Adding skill levels and sound effects
• Tracking hits and misses
• Testing and quality assurance

Lesson 7 Application programming interfaces

• Introducing the HTML5 JavaScript APIs
• The drag and drop API
• The web storage API
• The messaging API
• The history API
• The geo-location API
• Google maps
• The canvas API

Lesson 8 Introduction to jQuery

• What is jQuery?
• Finding and working with elements
• Creating a simple jQuery App
• Handling events with jQuery
• Effects and animation methods
• Working with jQuery form elements
• Dimension and positioning methods
• The jQuery user interface

Lesson 9 JavaScript plus

• Introducing AJAX
• JavaScript Object Notion (JSON)
• Server side JavaScript
• Function closure explained
• What are prototypes?
• Regular expressions and recursion
• Working with cookies
• Adding and removing event listeners

Lesson 10 Building the owzat cricket game

• Game overview
• Creating the game framework with HTML and CSS
• Planning the JavaScript functions
• Controlling the game
• Providing a scoreboard to show current status
• Generate random batting stroked and bowling appeals
• A function to update status
• Testing and quality assurance

Webmaster – Responsive Web Design

Lesson 1 Introduction

• What’s new in HTML5?
• Creating a HTML5 document
• HTML5 document validation
• Incorporating a CSS3 style sheet
• What’s new in CSS3?
• CSS3 document validation

Lesson 2 Responsive design

• What is responsive web design?
• Responsive web design with CSS3
• Proportional Layout
• Scaling images
• Converting from fixed to fluid design
• Cross-browser considerations
• Examples of responsive web design

Lesson 3 HTML5 semantic elements

• Introduction
• The header, footer and nav elements
• The section
• Article and aside elements
• Other semantic elements
• The role of DIV and SPAN elements
• Dropped elements and attributes

Lesson 4 Introduction to CSS3

• Background to CSS3
• Understanding cascading style sheets
• Internal, inline and external style sheets
• CSS3 rules and selectors
• New CSS3 colour formats
• Text effects and transformations
• Multi-column layout

Lesson 5 Styling content and layout with CSS3

• Recognising content boxes
• Setting margins and padding
• Sizing and positioning elements
• Formatting borders
• Specifying backgrounds
• Text formatting
• Using shadows and gradients

Lesson 6 Styling lists and tables with CSS3

• List style types and positioning
• Defining shorthand lists
• New HTML5 table elements
• Assigning elements as table components

Lesson 7 Styling HTML5 forms

• HTML5 form components
• Acquiring text input
• Email, telephone and URL inputs
• Check boxes and radio buttons
• Selecting options and uploading files
• Standard buttons and image buttons
• Date, time and range inputs
• Add some style with CSS3

Lesson 8 Using CSS3 to create special effects

• Understanding CSS3 transitions
• CSS3 transformations
• CSS3 animations
• Enhancing your text
• Using special cursors
• Hiding and revealing elements

Lesson 9 Optimising and organising your CSS3 code

• Resetting browser defaults
• Organising your style sheets
• Optimising style rules
• Specifying default styles

Lesson 10 The powerful HTML5 APIs

• The drag and drop API
• The web storage API
• Inter-document messaging
• The history API
• The geolocation and Google maps API
• The canvas API
• Incorporating audio and video