Event Details

TIME: 6pm - 9pm MT
COST: $69 for BDA members, $89 for non-members

The best way to start designing websites is to understand the technologies that make the web work and what acronyms like HTML, FTP, and CSS mean! This workshop will give you everything you need to think about BEFORE you begin designing a site to save you hours of time and trouble later!

We'll talk about information architecture - what should go where and why. We'll discuss how to keep your site from turning into a birds' nest of folders and hard-to-decipher files. You'll learn about hosting and maintenance along with user support from the design phase up to helping your users take over a site after you've built it.

This workshop will cover:

FTP and why it should be the first tool in your web developer toolbox
HTML basics and the building blocks of a web page
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and how they control the presentation of HTML
Javascript and its role in user interaction
Flash and what role it plays in presentation, interaction and the ups and downs of using it
Very general intro to PHP and ASP for dynamic pages
Content Management Systems vs. static sites

For complete details, PLEASE REGISTER at the BDA website. Boulder Digital Arts offers affordable training in digital media from professionals working in the field.