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Fast Track Curriculum for Seniors
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- Article Title: Fast Track Curriculum for Seniors
- Author: Zac Gordon
- Publication Date: Feb, 21 2008
- Categories: In the Classroom
- Section: Web Design
Fast Track Curriculum for Seniors
This is the self guided curriculum for ambitious students who want to be rock star web designers!
Need to Know HTML:
- Forms
- Beginner and advanced tutorials.
- Three level tutorial from WASP. Need to know basics first.
- A List Apart
- Sitepoint (look through, don't need to complete)
- CSS Styling Forms (7 pages): Fancy Form Design with CSS
- Microformats
- Sitepoint
- General Reads
- Sitepoint
- CSS-Tricks
Need to Know CSS:
- Image Replacement
- Revised Image Replacements
- Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook by Dan Cederholm - Chapter 14: Image Replacement
- Two Column, Three Column Layouts (Liquid and Fixed)
- Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook by Dan Cederholm - Chapter 12: CSS Layouts
- 456 Berea Street
- Blue Robot
- Max Design:
- Horizontal Navigation
- Max Design
- Sliding Doors
- A List Apart
- 456 Berea Street
- Expandable Box
- 456 Berea Street
- Bullet Proof Web Design by Dan Cederholm - Chapter 5 Indestructible Boxes
Need to Know PHP:
- Server side includes
- Send mail form
- Validate send mail form
Javascript
- DOM Scripting - Web Design with Javascript and the Document Object Model by Jeremy Keith. Yes, the whole book!
- Validate a contact form
- Use of the Jquery library:
CMS
- Learn to use Wordpress
- Customize wordpress themes
- Become comfortable with displaying entries
- Working with categories and custom fields
