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Web Design 101: Study Group

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Web Design 101: Study Group

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Course organiser: Pippa Buchanan
About the Course Organiser: 

I taught myself web development in between learning computer science, working as a video games developer and travelling the world.  Until recently I've been teaching web development at a design college in Berlin, Germany and I currently work as a coordinator for the Mozilla School of Webcraft on P2PU.org. 

I originally come from Australia, love working with people and design technologies and am fascinated by the open web. I believe that education is a fundamental human right and that learning should be an accessible and flexible experience that continues throughout your life.

No of Seats: 
12
Course Status: 
Completed

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How are webpages made? Work with other to learn how to create your own. #webcraft #p2pu #html #learning #drumbeat

Summary

This community is working together to explore core principles of developing standards compliant web pages. By following the readings and working on recommended activities you'll begin to  learn how to define your page structure and content in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and how to add style to your page using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Please Note: This is not a facilitated course. This space acts a place to ask questions around a shared set of materials and activities. Courses for P2PU and School of Webcraft will begin again in January 2011.

To take best advantage of this community you will need to engage with each other: ask questions! give advice! be supportive!

It's recommended that you find a study partner from within the community and work together with them to develop a study plan for the readings and activities. Having a study partner will keep you motivated.


The learning materials shared in this study group cover the core principles of developing standards compliant web pages. They are intended to help you learn how to define your page structure and content in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and how to add style to your page using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Topics covered:

  • How is a webpage constructed?
  • What are web standards?
  • What are the basic tools required to build a simple web site?
  • How can I fix mistakes in my website code?
  • How do I make my site visible on the web?

Participants should aim to  create simple websites (6-8 pages) containing text, images and hypertext links and can use this as a foundation for more advanced skills they can continue to develop in the School of Webcraft.  Course participants will learn about the importance of open web standards, will test their code on different browsers and will validate their code to guarantee it conforms to web standards.  Participants will also document techniques and code using a wiki - this will be used as a learning resource for future courses.

Please Note: only open web technologies will discussed during this course - proprietary formats such as Flash are not taught in the School of Webcraft.

Schedule/Syllabus

Comments

It seems that like Poomjit, I

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Jenni Lukac
Sun, 2010-09-05 15:25

It seems that like Poomjit, I have automatically landed in this course.However, I am delighted because I need this type of information to create a wordpress blog that I am trying to use as a web page for budget reasons. For this reason, and to find out how others are discovering the possibilities of the web, I'm going forward with the process. I've learned that by doing this type of project myself I can inspire others to "get with it" and get get empowered to create their own communication spaces in the web.

Ladies and Gentlemen, for

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Constantine
Sun, 2010-09-05 15:53

Ladies and Gentlemen, for those of you in this course without signing up, it is a known issue with the p2pu.org software and is on the list of things to correct, so take heart! You are not alone.

i dont know can i join the

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john eliot
Wed, 2010-09-08 22:44

i dont know can i join the cource? i went to this course: worcester boiler

Sorry I didn't actually sign

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Dave Goodchild
Mon, 2010-09-13 18:06

Sorry I didn't actually sign up for this course! Can someone remove me please?

Could you please remove me,

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Poomjit Sirawongp...
Mon, 2010-09-13 18:18

Could you please remove me, too? Thanks.

Yeah the 'Unsubscribe' link

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John Guzman
Mon, 2010-09-13 18:40

Yeah the 'Unsubscribe' link throws an 'Access Denied' message and does not remove me from the course, don't know if anyone else is getting that also

Ditto. I believe I have not

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Max Airborne
Mon, 2010-09-13 19:25

Ditto. I believe I have not been accepted into the course, but I can't unsubscribe either. "Access Denied"

It appears that once a course

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Charles Tanton
Tue, 2010-09-14 09:02

It appears that once a course is closed, you can't unsubscribe. I've changed this for now, so you should be able to unsubscribe. Garrick, Max, John, Dave and Poomjit - I have removed you from the course.

Hi, I'm another who was

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Veronica Giovanni
Sat, 2010-09-18 02:43

Hi, I'm another who was placed in the course in error. Would you please unsubscribe me from it as well? Thanks and good luck with the course!

I am just testing

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Evilaire
Wed, 2010-09-15 07:52

I am just testing

Greetings to all the

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Evilaire
Wed, 2010-09-15 08:11

Greetings to all the participants,

I am trying to post my website idea for the course. I posted it somewhere but I wasn't sure if it wil show up in the discussions. I am reposting it here.
It is a pleasure to participate in this course . I hope I will benefit from it. I would like to be able to build any website I desire to have. My ideas are:
1. Build an educational website for face-to-face and online tutoring and for teaching teaching courses. I would like to include the whiteboard in the online tutoring component.
2. Build a website to combine all my affiliate pages. This site will offer information about products offered and will contain the advertisements and links to the companies
All the sites should obiously have information about the services provided, a blog, links to social media, etc.

Happy to learn about

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Manzoor Khan
Wed, 2010-09-15 12:54

Happy to learn about developing an Educational Website for teaching and learning.I am not sure if the course has started and what is the progress.Am keen to follow up.Thanks

I didn't sign up for this

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Veronica Giovanni
Sat, 2010-09-18 02:38

I didn't sign up for this course either. Like others, I'd like to unsubscribe. Has anyone figured out how to do that?

Hi, I am the norwegian guy

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lars petter
Sat, 2010-09-18 10:52

Hi, I am the norwegian guy that has tried to contact you all week. Can you reply to me please.

Sorry, Lars Peter. My e-mail

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Evilaire
Sat, 2010-09-18 18:41

Sorry, Lars Peter. My e-mail inbox is quite full and it is difficult for me to read all the e-mails. Can you tell me what is about? Meanwhile I will search for your other e-mails

Hi Lars Petter, I haven't

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Evilaire
Sun, 2010-09-19 22:18

Hi Lars Petter,

I haven't seen your prior communications. Can you tell me what is about?

im following these topic. i

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sinau tok
Fri, 2010-10-01 05:16

im following these topic.
i wanna make a good WPMU that can auto post to main page from WPMU user site. its my site http://ondecity.com

Hi! I'm not part of this

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Gregorio Rabunal
Fri, 2010-10-15 21:54

Hi! I'm not part of this class, but I'm wondering when the next session begins, and where I can sign up, as I would like to take this class. I just signed up to Webcraft, so I'm a bit lost...

Hi , when we will start this

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nada A.S
Sun, 2010-11-14 21:50

Hi , when we will start this course?

Thanks