Learn to create beautiful, functional websites in this four-week online group seminar. This hands-on, project-based course will help you develop web publishing skills from the ground up – no prior programming or development experience necessary.

Whether you’ve only dabbled in web technologies and need to get up to speed – fast – or have some experience and want to flesh out your knowledge, this course will teach you the essential principles and techniques needed to create websites that communicate your message and engage your audience.

You can participate in this training experience when and where you want, and you’ll gain a comprehensive skill set focused on the principles and techniques needed to build polished, professional sites.

It may take up to four hours each week to complete the work.

Here’s what you can expect each week:

Week 1: Web Fundamentals, XHTML & HTML5

In this week, you’ll learn how websites work, how modern audiences access the web, a website-building process, how to secure server space and a domain name, essential developer tools, HTML, XHTML, HTML5 and more.

Week 2: Web Design Principles & Technologies

In this week, you’ll learn web design fundamentals, key Photoshop techniques for web designers, CSS fundamentals, how to convert a PSD file to XHTML/CSS and more.

Week 3: Web Development Principles & Technologies In this week, you’ll learn what we can do with web development techniques, how progressive enhancement and graceful degradation work, JavaScript essentials, jQuery basics, noteworthy jQuery plugins and more.

Week 4: Content Management Systems & Beyond

In this week, you’ll learn how content management systems work, WordPress basics, how to make WordPress a CMS, how to move a site from XHTML/CSS to a CMS, how to leverage APIs and more.