Learn how to create an attractive, well-organized, professional quality website in six weeks! This introductory class will teach you how to design a site that showcases your artwork, interests, or small business. You will learn the basics of web design using Dreamweaver: the industry standard software. Using your own content, you will conceive, develop, and design an elegant, clean website. Emphasis will be placed on building a site that is both easy to navigate and aesthetically pleasing.

In this class you will: gain a handle on basic Dreamweaver tools, make a mockup on paper, plan a multiple page web site, learn about information architecture, site structure and visual consistency, import and format text using logical character styles and paragraph formats, check for broken links and orphaned files, work with images for web, create hyperlinks between pages for navigation through your web site, create tables for aligning text and images, critique the sites of your peers, upload your site to a server, learn to recognize good design, and finally test, maintain, and publish your site.

No prior experience with web design is necessary, though Photoshop experience is strongly recommended. The class will be held in a Mac lab, but if you would like to bring your own PC laptop you may, provided Dreamweaver is installed.

Instructor
David Karlins wrote the book on Dreamweaver; literally. He has also written books on how to use just about every Adobe program ever. And he's taught digital media at San Francisco State University. Check him out at DavidKarlins.com!

Location
195 Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn