[Fsuk-manchester] Fwd: Just to remind you about the up-coming Web Design Foundations courses

[Michael Dorrington]

Another interesting set of courses at Madlab on how to keep the web free.

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Subject: Just to remind you about the up-coming Web Design Foundations
courses
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:57:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Natalie Whittaker <address@hidden>
Reply-To: address@hidden
To: MadLab-organisers <address@hidden>

Web Design Foundations is a four part modular course aimed at anyone
who wants to learn about how the Web works from the very basic
beginnings and be taken step by step, in a friendly informal style, up
to the point where they know how to build a basic modern best
practices web site and put it online. This includes a bit of theory,
but it largely focuses on getting your hands dirty with code (such as
HTML and CSS), and learning how it REALLY works.

Web Design Foundations 1(3) : Introduction to the Web, and web design
http://s.madlab.org.uk/wdf13

2nd April

This course starts you off at the very beginning, looking at
fundamental topics such as where the web came from, how it works, how
a web designer creates a web page and uploads it onto the web for
others to see, how to be a part of the web design community,
accessibility, usability, information architecture, and more. At the
end of the session, you will briefly dive into HTML and CSS, two of
the most important technologies used to build web pages.

Web Design Foundations 2(3) : HTML Basics
http://s.madlab.org.uk/wdf23

23rd April - 30th April

This course looks at the Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) language in
detail, showing how it is used to structure and define all the
different parts of your web content, such as headings, paragraphs,
lists, links,forms, tables, images and more. The focus is firmly on
making sure your content is presented using modern best practices,
making it logical, flexible and accessible and usable by the widest
variety of web users possible. The session also includes a look at
HTML5 semantics: the future of markup.

Web Design Foundations 3(3) : CSS Basics
http://s.madlab.org.uk/wdf33

14th May - 21st May

This course looks at looks at Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in detail,
the language used to add styling and layout to your HTML content. In
this session you will learn fundamental CSS theory such as the box
model, the cascade and specificity, how to effectively style your
paragraphs, lists, tables, forms, navigation menus and other content,
and the basics of layouts using floats and positioning. This session
also covers some CSS3 features: shadows, border radius, CSS3 selectors
and more.

Web Design Foundations 4(3) : Advanced CSS and HTML topics
http://s.madlab.org.uk/wdf43

11th June-18th June

Advanced CSS and HTML topics takes HTML and CSS further, looking at
advanced topics such as multi-column layouts, cross-browser issues,
CSS sprites, faux columns, optimizing layouts for different devices
such as mobile phones, CSS3 transitions, transforms and animation,
HTML5 video and forms, and more.

Please spread the word!

We also have some flyers for Omniversity, MadLab, the venue hire at
MadLab that we would happy if you could take with you - especially if
you work at the universities  or companies that might have interest
for those two subjects. If that  is OK with you, I could send you the
pdfs, or we could also print some  out at MadLab and you could take
them when you come by the next time.
That would be very much appreciated.


Kind regards,
Kaija-Luisa

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