4-Day Intensive Web Design Workshop

Learn all you need to know to develop truly creative and compelling Web pages in this workshop taught by master instructor Peter Kimble of the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at the University of Illinois.

This will be an intensive 4-day web design workshop, extending across 4 1/2 days (from Monday through Friday noon, with Wednesday afternoon "off"). In four days of hands-on learning, you'll cover design, art, technical issues, and best practices for both beginning and advanced Web designers. Lunch is included on all full days; "continental breakfast" and mid-morning snacks are included every day.

You'll be working with and have the chance to explore the latest widely-available versions of the software covered in this workshop (Dreamweaver, Microsoft Expression Web, and Photoshop). Nearly everything we do will also be equally applicable to those using prior versions of the software.

No prior Web experience (other than "surfing") is required. Illinois teachers can receive 28 CPDUs for this workshop.

At this 4-Day Workshop, you will...

Learn about the web and the fundamentals of creating a web page using HTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

Design sophisticated web sites and web pages using Dreamweaver, Microsoft Expression Web, and Photoshop and/or Fireworks.

Work with Dreamweaver in depth, but also explore Microsoft’s highly-rated web
design software: Expression Web. Create new web sites, or use Expression Web to open & work with web sites created by any other program.

Learn how and why you can use Dreamweaver or Expression Web either separately or together (even on the same web site), and learn to use many of the "power features" of each, including:

	*Dreamweaver* templates, libraries, rollover behaviors, "Spry widgets" and interface options, and use of CSS styles for formatting and layer positioning
	*Expression Web* dynamic web templates, "best of class" support for creation of standards-based CSS pages and page layouts, and more

Discover how to use CSS layers to professionally design your web page layout (and why you should avoid using tables for page layout).

	Learn the principles of digital images as well as some basic enhancement and retouching techniques using Adobe Photoshop. Optimize images for the best balance between image quality and download speed.
	Create web forms, and learn how to create dynamic pages that automatically display information from a database or XML file.
	Create image maps, animated GIFs, and easy-to-create rollover effects (including CSS-based rollovers).
	Use Dreamweaver and/or Expression Web to bring together all your pages, whether created by hand-coded HTML, Dreamweaver, Expression Web, or any other Web design program. Even load entire pre-existing web sites into Expression Web or Dreamweaver.
	Address compatibility and usability issues for the widest possible range of computers and screen resolutions.
	Receive a Web Design Certificate of Completion (suitable for framing!)
	Earn 2.8 UIUC CEUs (Illinois teachers eligible for 28 CPDUs)

Also included in the workshop:

Three tutorial/reference workbooks

Authoritative and comprehensive handouts on topics not covered by the workbooks

Digital copies of examples and tutorial support files

Continental breakfast each morning. Lunches and mid-afternoon snacks on all full days.

4-Day Intensive Web Design Workshop

Prerequisite: Some familiarity with the Web ("surfing"), elementary word processing skills

Computer Type: This workshop is taught using Windows computers, but all the software except Expression Web is identical on Intel-based Macs (with OS 10.5.7 or later).

Instructor: Peter Kimble, Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)

Hours: 28, not including meal breaks

UIUC CEUs: 2.8

CPDUs: 28 (Illinois teachers are now eligible to receive 28 Continuing Professional Development Units (CPDUs) for attendance at this workshop, provided their approved professional development plans include this type of activity.)

Fee: $488 (includes workbooks, meals, and snacks)

Registration Code: IWDW-59
Dates: Monday thru Friday, March 26 - 30, 2012
Location: Champaign, Illinois: UI Armory Building, Suite 156 (use NE entrance to Armory)
Times: MTuTh: 8:30 a.m. -- 4:30 p.m. (lunch included)
WF: 8:30 a.m. -- 12:30 p.m.

Note: We are now offering this workshop 3 times per year.
Recent workshop dates (within past year or so) were:
IWDW-58 October 24 - 28, 2011
IWDW-57 June 13 - 17, 2011
IWDW-56 March 28 - April 1, 2011

Chicago Area (no workshops scheduled at this time):

Although we're currently offering the 4-Day Intensive Web Design Workshop 3 or 4 times per year in Champaign-Urbana, we do not have any Chicago area workshops scheduled at this time. We would like to resume offering this workshop periodically in the Chicago area, if we are able to find suitable facilities (computer classrooms).

The original expansion of our workshops into the Chicago area was a result of collaboration between the Center for Teaching Excellence and the UIUC Office of Continuing Education (OCE), which eliminated its "Chicago Programs" division a few years ago due to University budget cuts.

Past offerings of this workshop in the Chicago area have utilized the following locations:
    Oak Brook (west) - Multi-University Center
    Vernon Hills / Lincolnshire (north) - College of Lake County, Lakeside Center
    Illini Center (Chicago Loop) - OCE no longer has facilities at the Illini Center in the Loop, where many past Web Design Workshops were held from 2001-2005.

Please contact us if you have any questions or suggestions.

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