Website user experience & CSS workshop

This workshop is run with Russ Weakley from MaxDesign.

Workshop description

A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maurer, and CSS
expert, Russ Weakley.

Over two full days you will build detailed websites layouts from the ground up - starting with page layout, navigation and form design; and ending with clean markup and elegant styling using XHTML/CSS.

Day 1: Planning and designing the user experience - Donna Maurer

On day one you will plan and design a website - focusing on the user experience: designing the navigation, page layout and forms.

You will:

learn techniques to understand your users, and prepare user scenarios
understand your content with content analysis methods
create an effective and usable site structure (information architecture)
design a range of navigation methods
create page layouts for content, home, index and special pages
design simple forms

For each step, Donna will outline the fundamentals and show examples from small and large website projects. But most of the time will be hands-on -you work on your own project, ask questions and discuss with the group.

Day 2: Building beautiful sites using CSS - Russ Weakley

On day two you will build your website from the ground up - starting with structural markup, adding accessible markup and then styling your layout using CSS.

You will learn:

how to create well structured, accessible markup
the basics of CSS including rule sets, selectors, shorthand rules, inheritance and the cascade.
how to structure efficient CSS files
how to create a full CSS layout from a flat graphic mockup
how to deal with browser issues including specific browsers such as IE5,IE6 and IE7.
how to create a resolution dependent layout
how to create CSS for printing and hand held devices

Dates

Canberra - Monday 31 March and Tuesday 1 April

Melbourne - Thursday 3 April and Friday 4 April

Sydney - Monday 28 April and Tuesday 29 April

Brisbane - Thursday 1 May and Friday 2 May

Register

More information and registration here: http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2008/