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Chicago—91´«Ã½ Editions announces a new iteration of our popular eCourse, . Diane Kovacs will serve as the instructor for a 4-week facilitated eCourse starting on April 3, 2017.

Estimated Hours of Learning: 30

Certificate of Completion available upon request



Learning Outcomes:

• The ability to compose basic- to intermediate- level HTML documents and to understand and compose basic CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).
• The ability to draft a needs assessment for a website design and plan for a web project
• An understanding of accessibility and how to design accessible pages
• The knowledge to plan and implement usability testing
• A foundation for further self-learning for more advanced web design

HTML elements are the basic building blocks of every webpage, so a little coding skill can yield big gains in effective communication and efficient website maintenance. With basic HTML skills, you can add links to your press releases, customize your Facebook page, or update your library’s website. Even if you work with rich text editors in a content management system, fundamental web design principles will give you better results. Once you know the basics, you can deepen your contribution to the web team with skills in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript.



Diane Kovacs, an experienced web designer and online instructor, will show you how to design attractive, clear, and accessible webpages and give you the foundation for learning more.

eCourse outline

Topic 1. Web Standards and Basic Concepts:

Creating a Basic Web Page (HTML5 Standards)

• HTML5 Basic Concepts Lecture and Readings
  • Learning Activity 1. Creating and Validating an HTML5 Basic Web Page

Topic 2. CSS for Style and Layout (External CSS3 Standard)

• CSS Basics Lecture and Readings
  • Learning Activity 2. Creating and Validating an External Cascading Style Sheet (CSS external) for Layout and Style

Topic 3. Accessibility Validation, and Usability Testing

• Accessibility Validation, and Usability Testing Lectures and Readings
  • Learning Activity 3. Usability and Accessibility Testing

Topic 4. User Centered Design: Needs Assessment and Design Planning

• User Centered Design: Needs Assessment and Design Planning Lectures and Readings
  • Learning Activity 4.Needs Assessment & Design Plan and Peer Review

This self-paced hands-on course focuses on the basics of Web standards, Web site planning, design, and construction. Students will complete learning activities to develop HTML5 and external CSS construction skills, and validate HTML5 and CSS standards. Practice in accessibility validation and simple usability testing will complete a solid grounding in good practices. Students will complete needs assessment and design plan worksheets for a project of their choice.

This is a primarily asynchronous seminar, allowing participants to work through course material at times convenient to them. The instructor will provide feedback to all completed work via email. Participants may also choose to schedule online chat time with the teacher, as they feel necessary.

About the Instructor

Diane Kovacs is a consultant, teacher, and librarian. She has nine years’ experience teaching online in library schools, for both the University of Illinois and San Jose State University. An instructional designer and trainer, she has developed courses for public and academic librarians on technology usage, library instruction, web design, government documents, virtual reference, and electronic collection development. In 2000 she received the "Documents to the People" award from the Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT).

Registration for this 91´«Ã½ Editions facilitated eCourse, which begins on DATE, can be purchased at the . Participants in this course will need regular access to a computer with an internet connection for online message board participation, viewing online video, listening to streaming audio (MP3 files), and downloading and viewing PDF and PowerPoint files.

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