Want to learn the latest web standards? Attend this class!
Benefits of Web Standards
- Improved employability - companies are hiring designers who know standards
- Better Return On Investment (ROI) over web project lifecycles
- Increased search engine rankings
- Reduced bandwidth costs resulting from more efficient code
- Decreased time in maintaining and upgrading web sites
What You’ll Learn
- How to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the widely-supported standard for styling web pages
- How to transform word processing documents into structured web documents that will work in tomorrow's browsers.
- How to write cross-browser compatible, standards-compliant code
- How to use the CSS box model and other advanced techniques to lay out pages
Starts May 5!
Class Overview
Designing with Web Standards is a class being offered by the Marlboro College Graduate Center to meet the amazing demand of designers who want (or need) to learn about web standards.
This class will help you understand and implement standards in the same ways that ESPN.com, Wired.com, and ABC.com already have.
The class is available to both students and the public. Everyone is welcome.
Class Schedule
The class consists of seven 3 hour sessions held on alternate Saturdays, 8:30 - 11:30 AM, starting on May 5, 2007. All classes will be held on the Brattleboro, Vt. campus.
- May 5, 2007
- May 19, 2007
- June 2, 2007
- June 16, 2007
- June 30, 2007
- July 20, 2007
- August 3, 2007
Class Instructors
Jen Kramer
Jen teaches many web design classes at Marlboro and runs her own freelance web design and development company, Focused Consulting, from her home in Keene, NH.
Barb Ackemann
A 2006 MSIT graduate of Marlboro College, Barb runs her own freelance web design firm, Iris Lines Designs, and runs Barb's Bits of Color, showcasing her handmade jewelry.
Pricing and Sign-up Details
The Designing with Web Standards class can be taken by anyone. Depending on how you're taking it, however, there are different prices. For those alumni and public who would like to take the class, you will need to take it as a continuing education class, and the price is $400. For those Marlboro students who are taking it for credit, the price is $1,890.
- Current Marlboro students - $1,890 (taken as a for-credit class)
- Public students - $400 (taken as a continuing education class)