Web & Information Design Training-- Boston area

[Laura Horlitz <lhorlitz -at- NSIGHTCOM -dot- COM>]

Announcing Web & Information Design Training from nSight (www.nsightcom.com)

April-May Classes

FrontPage98 Introduction
Date    Location        Tuition         Code
4/27    Boston          $354            WT16
This one-day, hands-on workshop teaches the basics of how to develop a Web
site using FrontPage 98. Learn how to design a Web site using FrontPage 98?s
templates, Explorer interface, FrontPage Editor, and how to create links,
insert images, create a table, and maintain a Web site.

FrontPage98 Advanced
Date    Location        Tuition         Code
4/28    Boston          $354            WT15
This one-day, hands-on workshop builds on the basics of developing Web sites
using FrontPage 98. Learn advanced features of FrontPage 98?s interface.
FrontPage98 Introduction is a pre-requisite for this program.

Beginning Active Server Pages
Date            Location        Tuition         Code
4/29-4/30       Boston          $958            WT09
As the World Wide Web matures, sites must move from the first generation of
static pages, to a new model where pages are customized to provide real-time
information that users need. Active Server Pages, (ASP), is the Microsoft
technology for modifying Web pages at the moment they are served to the
visitor.

Writing & Editing for the Web (fills quickly)
Date    Location        Tuition         Code
4/27    Boston          $354            WE13b
5/19    Framingham      $354            WE13a
This one-day workshop helps writers and editors shift their skills to the
Web as a new market. Whether you?re working on existing materials or
developing new content the Web holds many unique requirements. Learn what
good Web sites consists of, guidelines for successful content on the Web,
how to create and edit your material for your many Web audiences, test
usability, and transform legacy text.

PhotoShop for Web Production
Date    Location        Tuition         Code
4/27    Framingham      $354            WT22
This one-day, hands-on workshop reveals all of PhotoShop?s image-editing
capabilities and provides how-to tips and techniques for Web production.
Learn step-by-step procedures for producing high quality scans, adding
background textures, bevels and text effects, and how to maximize layering
features and special effects filters. You?ll gain a thorough understanding
of PhotoShop?s features and functions so that you may create polished,
professional images ready for the World Wide Web.

Still Web Imagery with ImageReady (introduction)
Date    Location        Tuition         Code
5/4     Boston          $354            WT13
This one-day, hands-on program offers an overview of Adobe ImageReady?s easy
to use interface for preparing images for the Web. Topics include; scanning
images for the Web; understanding  resolution and image size; selecting the
right Web format (gif or jpeg); finding the balance between load time and
image detail. We also explore how to maximize the impact of your image
through effective cropping, cutting, and color manipulation.

Web Animations with ImageReady (advanced)
Date    Location        Tuition         Code
5/5     Boston          $354            WT14
This one-day, hands-on program gives an overview of how to create
fast-loading gif animations for the Web. Animations are any series of
changing images; pans through a single photograph, a series of photographs,
a humorous sequence, or changing text images. Users who already have
digitized video or computer animations produced in other software can learn
how to convert sequences for the Web. This includes an overview of
advantages and limitations of gif animations. Pre-requisites include
experience with either computer animation or still image processing
(Photoshop or ImageReady).

FrameMaker for Technical Documentation
Date            Location        Tuition         Code
5/6-5/7         Framingham      $324            TD12
This two-day hands-on course is a must for anyone buildings books and other
long documents in Adobe FrameMaker. Understand the challenges and advantages
of the latest version of FrameMaker and how to use this tool create
documents, do page layouts, define paragraph and character formats, font,
tab, numbering and pagination properties. Learn to maximize its
full-featured word processing, page layout, templates, tables, questions,
references, graphics, and structured document tools. This is a
computer-based introductory through intermediate level program.

FrameMaker + SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) Authoring & Editing
Date            Location        Tuition         Code
5/14-5/16       Framingham      $324            TD13
Learn how to author structured documents using FrameMaker + SGML. This
two-day hands-on course teaches you how to set up your working environment,
add, edit, and delete text, use the Frame Clipboard, Structure View, and
Element Catalog to manipulate elements, edit documents, and create documents
from scratch. Understand an element?s attributes, add structured cross-
references, variables, footnotes, and anchored frames. This is a
computer-based introductory level program.

Corporate Web Strategy: Branding and Architecture
Date    Location        Tuition         Code
5/7     Boston          $354            WT12
This one-day workshop provides a critical look at Web site development and
its implications to a corporation?s branding and market image. It is
intended for anyone who is charged with creating or maintaining a quality
Web site, including identifying your company?s needs and developing
strategy. Learn how to develop a Web site that keeps visitors coming back
time and again, keep up with changing business objectives, address
interactive issues, and gain valuable tips and techniques used by the
industry leaders. Find out what common traps and pitfalls you will need to
avoid in planning an effective Web site corporate branding strategy.

Multimedia for the Web
Date    Location        Tuition         Code
5/11    Framingham      $354            WT21
While most successful low-bandwidth sites rely largely on the richness of
text and a simple, clear, layout, many sites are integrating moving images,
video, and sound to great benefit. This one-day introduction to Multimedia
for the Web program is a survey: it introduces how you can feature a variety
of so-called "multimedia" on an image-and-text based Web site. Learn
streaming media, animation (the differences between Flash, Shockwave, and
animated GIFs), and other ways to spice up a site such as Java, JavaScript,
and Dynamic HTML. Economizing use of multimedia is also covered in the
course which shows how to augment a healthy site in a smart way -- by
keeping files manageable over the Web.

Smart Web Page Design
Date    Location        Tuition         Code
5/12    Framingham      $354            WT23
This one-day course is the next step beyond a basic understanding of HTML.
It offers you tools to increase your skills and knowledge in the visual
aspects of creating a Web site. Gain the basics on how to build page
templates and explore color. Streamline images and understand user-based
design. Learn techniques for creating graphics, text, and page design
elements that contribute to a quality Web site that communicates the right
message.

JavaScript Introduction
Date    Location        Tuition         Code
5/18    Boston          $354            WT20
Learn what JavaScript is, what it can do for you, and how it works in this
one-day hands-on introduction. You will use JavaScript to display messages
in the Netscape status bar, display the current date, and dynamically update
the current time. You also create scrolling text banners and create a
?RoloURL? to access URLs from a list. Additionally the program covers
validating and submitting user-entered HTML from data, generating an HTML
table to display a monthly calendar in its own window, and using JavaScript
to manage the final multiframe JavaScript Central! home page.

Structuring Your Information Architecture
Date            Location        Tuition         Code
5/24            Wakefield       $354            TD16
Is your company moving its PC applications to an intranet? Do you need to
support online documentation on Windows or Unix systems running Internet
Explorer or Netscape Communicator? Do you have to support an equivalent
documentation set in both hard-copy and Windows CE Help formats? If you?re
like many, you may be tempted to buy a tool like RoboHelp or HomeSite and
jump into development, but this ready, aim, fire approach can create
unnecessary work or send you down technical dead-ends. A better approach is
to consider the big picture-the architecture of your online information.
Explore the six steps needed to create useful and flexible online
information systems; doing a materials inventory, analyzing users and needs,
planning for modularity based on issues like configuration and update
cycles; designing for cross-format production; selecting development tools
based on capabilities, issues, and trends, and documenting your effort to
avoid redoing it six moths later.

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