Web Standards Curriculum

This is a Best use of Technology Class. The training class does not go into any code or markup details. It only acts as a general overview of best practices for modern web development and design processes. It also focuses on concepts and standards of web design such as Information Architecture, navigation, usability etc. This class is based on the Opera Web Standards Curriculum .

Opera has created the Web Standards Curriculum (WSC) in association with the Yahoo! Developer Network. This course helps participants who may be complete beginner to having a solid grounding in standards-based Web design, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript development. The course is supported by top companies and organizations such as the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and Yahoo!

Web Standards have never been easier to learn. Everything you need to know is condensed into short, helpful modules that inform and inspire. Web Standards Curriculum can help you brush up on things you know and maybe even teach you something you didn’t.

The Bincom Web Standards Curriculum class is a 2 - 5 day training course that helps participants understand best practices for building websites of modern standards . The training courses are customised based on participants key requirements and level of expertise .

Who is it for ?

For Individuals :
Learn Web Standards and good development practices for the next generation WWW. Web Standards Curriculum deconstructs Web Standards into modules that can be learnt in a short period of time.

For Web Development Students  : 
Supplement / Increase the relevance of your typical web development lessons to real-world web development.
For Web developers

For Businesses :
Web Standards Curriculum is ideal for in-house training. Empower your development team to use Web Standards that reduce bandwidth, spur innovation and promote good coding practices across the Web.

For the Web owners :
The beauty of the Web is that it creates a uniform, international development platform. Using Web Standards means your sites will be quicker to code and maintain, more compact, and accessible to web users regardless of their browsing platform and (dis)ability.

Interested ? 

This training is only available as a Private Class. Please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or contact us for details .

Some of the topics to be covered includes :

  

 


  • Introduction to the world of web standards
  • The history of the Internet and the web, and the evolution of web standards
  • Content Management Systems How does the Internet work?
  • The Web standards model—HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • Beautiful dreams, but what’s the reality?
  • Web Design Concepts  
  • Information Architecture—planning out a web site
  • What does a good web page need?
  • Colour Theory
  • Building up a site wireframe
  • Colour schemes and design mockups
  • Typography on the web
  • The basics of HTML
  • The HTML <head> element  

 

  • Marking up textual content in HTML
  • HTML Lists
  • Images in HTML
  • HTML links—let’s build a web!
  • HTML Tables
  • HTML Forms—the basics
  • Lesser–known semantic elements
  • Generic containers — the div and span elements
  • Creating multiple pages with navigation menus
  • Validating your HTML

 

  • Accessibility basics
  • Accessibility testing

 

  • Getting your content online

 

CSS

  • CSS basics
  • Inheritance and Cascade
  • Text styling with CSS
  • The CSS layout model - boxes, borders, margins, padding
  • CSS background images
  • Styling lists and links
  • Styling tables
  • Styling forms
  • Floats and clearing
  • CSS static and relative positioning
  • CSS absolute and fixed positioning
  • Headers, footers, columns, and templates
  • Building Accessible Static Navigation with CSS

 

JAVASCRIPT

  • Programming - the real basics!
  • A brief look at Javascript
  • JavaScript best practices
  • The principles of unobtrusive JavaScript
  • JavaScript functions, Objects and DOM
  • Dynamic style - manipulating CSS with JavaScript
  • Handling events with JavaScript
  • Graceful degredation versus progressive enhancement

 

HTML5

  • Getting familiar with HTML5!
  • New structural elements in HTML5
  • New form features in HTML5
  • Introduction to HTML5 video
  • More accessible HTML5 video player
  • HTML 5 canvas - the basics

AND MANY OTHERS

  •  Mobile Web Development 101: Introduction to the mobile web
  • Content is Key - The Basic
  • Content Management Systems : An Overview
  • Open Source : An Overview
  • SEO Basics
  • Firefox and Chrome : Tools to aid development
  • Web 2.0 , Web 3.0
  • Social Media 
  • Security : The barest minium and where to go from there . 

 

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