May 4th Workshop - Hyperlinks

In this workshop we will cover hyperlinks

1. How to import a new page & link to it

2. Create links between pages

3. Links to other websites

4. Links that open in new browser windows

5. Creating Bookmarks

Also, there will be a demonstration of SEGrader which is a free tool that allows you to measure the performance of your website.

March 23 Worshop

In this workshop we will tie up loose ends for on the subject of online forms.  Followed by a demo of HTTrack which copies web sites from the Internet to your local directory.  Hoping that this software will add to our bag of tricks.

Finally, we will return to the Sam's book - resuming at Hour 4 - Building a Home Page: A Look behind the curtain.

Workshop name change

We have decide to change the workshop name to: Website Design Workshop

March 2nd Workshop - Online Forms

In this workshop we will continue building an online form that is part of a website.  The form gives a visitor the ability to input information and to communicate with the website owner.  We will design the form as well as set up the options of how the website will process the visitors input.  Be it just a simple email generation back to the site owner or direct the visitor's input data to a web server's database.

An online form is an ideal way for visitors to communicate with the website owner & for the website owner to collect visitor information for whatever purpose the owner has in mind.

January 5th Workshop

For this month's workshop, we will be continuing to follow the Sams book on Expression Web 4.  We will be starting chapter 4 - Building a Home Page.  This chapter will include the following subjects:

• Setting up a new website
• Importing Styled text from another document
• Cleaning up imported text

Then we will be continuing with chapter 5 - Hyperlinks. This chapter will include the following subjects:

• How to create links between pages
• How to create links to other websites
• How to create links that open in new windows
• How to create bookmark links within a page

December 8 Workshop

We will start of this workshop with a discussion of the recent poll that was conducted to ascertain interest in web technologies.  Then a brief discussion of WordPress blogging.

Finally,  we will start to explore the latest version of the Expression Web 4.0 software.  This will be accomplished by following the latest Sam's book covering the 4.0 version of the software.

November 3 Workshop

In this weeks workshop we will cover how to set up a WordPress blog.  This will include a description of how to prepare a hosting service so that the WordPress (WP) software can be installed on their servers.  The uploading process , to these servers, is accomplished by means of  FTP software which will be demonstrated.

Once the WP software is installed, we will demonstrate how the WP dashboard & editor is used to post new content.  We will also show how WP can be used to emulate a traditional website using the Pages feature.

Discussion of the Expression Web package is put off until December.  We now have the EW 4.0 software but how-to books on the new software are only expected to be available in November and my preference is to follow a book vs improvising in a haphazard way.