Understanding the latest standards for HTML, XHTML, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the critical starting point for building any Web site or application. Our instructor-led training classes teach you XHTML layout and design, including the latest best practices for browser compatibility and accessibility. Couple this with some standards-compliant JavaScript training, and you've got the skills to design truly attractive and fully functional Web sites.

175 | Understanding and Evaluating Web Content Management System

This course will provide the user with information needed to choose and implement a CMS solution, and teach best practices in a CMS implementation. Additionally, students will have a chance take an existing site and experience the steps needed to move that site into a CMS system. Finally, the students will be given a hands-on tour of existing CMS products, and be provided the opportunity to actually use several CMS products to see their benefits and limitations.

180 | Information Architecture and Writing for the Web

WestLake's Introduction to Information Architecture for the Web will benefit both the Information Architects and writers who will be creating the content for Web pages. While it discusses Web projects in terms of a project life-cycle, it is especially geared to those individuals who will be determining what the content will be and how users will get to that content.

195 | Web Site Accessibility and Usability

Is your site accessible to persons with sensory and physical disabilities? Upgrading your site to be in full compliance with the World Wide Web Consortium's Accessibility Guidelines will make your company information available to everyone, no matter what their disability. Also, it is a legal requirement that all government agencies and contractors have Web sites that are accessible.