Become A Web Pro:
Create Websites With The Latest
Web Technologies

Beginners – Learn To Build Websites The Right Way

There’s a wealth of knowledge available to teach you how to build websites. However, web development techniques are constantly evolving to keep up with the web. So, how do you know what techniques are relevant and what techniques are out of date?

The workshop will teach you the practices and principles in use today by web professionals. Learn to build websites based on web standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium and observed by all major web companies like Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple. This standards-based approach will ensure that your website is compatible not only with today’s browsers and devices like the Nokia N900 and the iPad but remain relevant as the web continues to evolve.

Designers – What You Learnt About Web Design In College Is Wrong

Many colleges teach web design that rely heavily on tools developed in an era when the web was constrained to computer monitors. The web has dramatically evolved and the old tools and techniques are not able to properly optimise website for next generation browsers and web devices.

Here are some of the things that you’ve been taught wrong:

• The customer is always right. Wrong! In web design, your priority is to the visitor or user of the website. The designer’s job is to balance the clients’ objectives with the website visitors’ user experience.
• Flash is required to create amazing website effects. Wrong! JavaScript effects can replace Flash in many cases and still offer an accessible web experience to all website visitors.
• Meta Tags are the key ranking highly in search engine results. Wrong! Search engines have matured and no longer rely on meta tags heavily. The good news is that by building a website with web standards, your website will automatically be search friendly and accessible to next generation web devices.

Discover the truth about modern web design and update your skills for HTML5 at this workshop.

More Reasons To Attend This Workshop

In addition to the invaluable knowledge you’ll learn from the workshop, you also get:

• Guided, hands-on instruction on all stages of the web development process
• Build an example website from start to finish during the 2-day workshop
• Full source code and images used when building our example website will be available to you to practice on
• A web server to practice on during the workshop
• Special offers from our web hosting partners for a free domain name for life

Who Should Attend

Beginners – Even if you’ve never tried creating websites before, this workshop will walk you through the basics in a clear, easy-to-understand manner.

Designers – You’re skilled with Photoshop and creating stunning looking graphics. Now learn to bring your designs to the web.

Hobbyists – This workshop will provide you the foundation to take your web design passion to the next level, and provide you the foundation to continue learning and improving your skills.

Bloggers – If you have ever wished that you could change the look of your blog yourself, this workshop will give you the knowledge how. Learn also to optimise your blog for search engines and devices like the iPad.

Workshop Details

Fee: RM400
Date: 15-16 May (Saturday & Sunday)
Time: 10am - 4pm
Venue: NSTP Seminar Room, Jalan Riong Bangsar

Lunch and tea breaks will be provided

Workshop Requirements

1. Participants are required to bring their own laptop (PC or Mac) – netbooks are not suitable.
2. An email address for notification of pre-workshop preparation instructions.
3. A list of required (free) software will be provided to you to download and install in advance.
4. Internet connection will be provided but please bring your own if possible.

Meet Your Workshop Facilitator – David Wang

David Wang is the Web Marketing Director at Level5 Creative, a branding agency specialising in web, print and interior design.

David has been involved in the web constantly for his entire career. What began as a hobby directed his career path to working with Asia’s largest digital advertising agency and finally as Web Director at Level5 Creative.

David built his first website 10 years ago (on Geocities!) and has been learning and applying standards-based web design to his projects ever since.

Day 1

Planning for Success: The Web Design Process

In this session we’ll learn what makes a good or bad website and planning for a successful website. We’ll also learn about the 3 layers of the web and how to apply modern web design principles such as progressive enhancement and graceful degradation into our website.

Setting Up Shop: The Tools Of The Trade

Discover the tools in the web designer’s toolbox. Familiarise yourself how to develop a website on your computer before publishing it to the web.

From Design To Website

Imagine if you had X-ray vision that allowed you see underneath the world’s most popular websites. In this session, you’ll do exactly that and discover how popular websites are created. Next we’ll take a design and chop it up to be used in our website.

HTML – The Foundation of Your Website

Get introduced to HTML code, and start building an example website. We’ll learn how to make your code friendly to search engines and accessible to non-computer devices like mobile phones.

CSS – Dressing Up Your Website in Style

Now, you have a chopped up design and the raw HTML – it’s time to marry both with Cascading Style Sheets. By the end of the session, our HTML code will have transformed into the design we started off with.

Day 2

Adding Interactivity with Web Forms

Forms are how visitors interact with your website, so let’s add one to our example website. Learn how to make user friendly forms to make your website more functional and interactive.

JavaScript – Bringing Your Website To Life

Get an introduction to the power of JavaScript. Use it to add effects and animations to the website – all without Flash! We’ll be using jQuery, one of the most popular JavaScript libraries on the web to simplify development.

Debugging Web Browser Problems

Web browsers are not made equal, and we’ll see how different browsers render our website differently. We’ll then learn how to solve these issues so that your website works across multiple browser, and gracefully degrades on older, less capable ones.

HTML5: Preparing For The Future

HTML5 is the next generation HTML specification being drafted by the World Wide Web Consortium. In this session we’ll find out what it means to web designers today and how to prepare for the future of the web.

Optimising Websites For Mobile Devices

The web is going mobile in a big way with internet-enabled mobile phones and paradigm changing devices like the Apple iPad. In this session, you will be introduced to adapting and optimising your website code for mobile devices.

Hosting A Website For The Whole World To See

Now you’ve got a website that looks and works great. The next step is to publish it to the web. Learn the fundamentals of web hosting and how to share your website with the world.

This workshop is conducted in collaboration with the New Straits Times' NIE Unit.

For enquiries about the workshop content, please contact David Wang of Level5 (016-2392255 / david@level5creative.com).

For enquiries about registration and payment, please contact Shamini or Suhaida of New Straits Times (NIE Unit) (03-2056-9692 / 9615 or cshamini@nstp.com.my / suhaidalaily@nstp.com.my.)