Website User Experience and CSS Workshop (Melbourne, Australia)
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 by Casey Glass| April 3, 2008 | to | April 4, 2008 |
Max Design presents: Website user experience and CSS workshop: designing for usability, building for the future
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
Who should attend?
Web managers, web designers, web developers and bloggers who:
- are interested in designing user-focused websites
- have a basic understanding of CSS and want to learn more
