CIW - Site Development Associate

Curriculum

Markup Language and Site Development Essentials

• Creating web pages
• Mobile and cloud issues
• Text editors and markup languages
• Graphical user interface (GUI) editors
• History of markup languages
• HTML web development
• HTML5, CSS and JavaScript
• Website development principles
• Hosting and web service providers
• The Habitat for Humanity website

HTML5 Coding

• Introduction to using HTML
• Elements and markup tags
• Document structure tags
• Web site file structure
• Preparing your development environment
• Paragraph formatting and block-level elements
• Text-level elements
• Lists
• Good coding practice

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Graphical Elements

• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Separating content in HTML
• Images in webpages
• HTML entities
• Specifying colours
• Page colours and backgrounds
• Specifying font information
• Web design issues
• HTML5 and older browsers

Hyperlinks

• Introduction to hyperlinks
• The anchor element
• Creating local hyperlinks
• Creating external hyperlinks
• Using images as hyperlinks
• Creating internal links
• Managing hyperlinks

HTML Tables

• Introduction to HTML tables
• CSS properties for all table elements
• Table and data alignment options
• Height and width of table elements
• Column and row spanning
• HTML tables vs. CSS page structure

Web Forms

• Introduction to web forms
• Web forms and CGI
• HTML5 and forms
• Basic tags for creating web forms
• Web form fields

Video, Audio and Image Techniques

• Introduction to web video, audio and image techniques
• HTML 'video' and 'audio' elements
• Graphic types
• Image maps
• Image transparency
• Image interlacing
• Animation
• Mobile device issues with animation and plug-ins
• Creating and managing images

Extending HTML

• Extending HTML
• Server-Side and client-side languages
• Server-Side languages
• Client-Side languages
• Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
• Document object model (DOM)
• HTML5 APIs
• Canvas
• Offline web application
• Geolocation
• Drag-and–drop functionality
• Web application frameworks
• Connecting to a database

GUI HTML Editors and Mobile Web Sites

• Introduction to GUI HTML editors
• Types of GUI editors
• GUI HTML editor functionality
• Creating webpages with a GUI editor
• HTML Text editors vs. GUI editors
• Previewing Pages and validating code
• Website publishing
• Developing web pages for mobile devices
• Mobile apps vs. mobile websites
• Converting a website for mobile users
• Working with Web 2.0

Web Site Development for Business

• Developing a business website
• E-Commerce considerations
• Internet marketing and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
• E-Commerce payment technologies
• Working in a global environment
• Databases and webpages
• Optimising the impact of the webpage
• Front-end issues
• File formats and active content
• Back-end issues
• Bandwidth and download time
• Naming web page files