Immediacy Designer training

We offer two courses aimed at Designers these being:

 

XHTML/CSS Primer: 1 day

 

Who Should Attend

This course is ideally suited to those individuals who;

  • Have recently made the move into a web page design/creation role
  • Design/create pages using Graphical Design tools, such as Dreamweaver, and have had no previous requirement to work with the base XHTML files
  • Those planning to attend the Design Course whose XHTML/CSS knowledge may need refreshing.

The course involves a number of workshops during which attendees will create web pages from scratch and gradually extend them to make full use of CSS styles and positioning attributes. Consideration of accessibility concerns are also taken into account.

 

Course Prerequisites

  • Basic PC Skills.

 

Aims and Objectives

By the end of this course attendees will have covered:

  • Using the different options available to position elements within a page.

 

This course is designed to equip its attendees with the knowledge necessary to enable them to maximize benefits of attending the Immediacy Design (Template Creation) Course.

 

Download course overview in PDF format

CMS Design (template creation) training: 1 day

 

Who Should Attend

This course is ideally suited to all individuals involved in the creation of Immediacy CMS templates. Attendees undertake a number of workshops designed to equip them with a range of knowledge including how to change the default styles used by the Immediacy Editor, how to create multiple editable area templates and how to create customised menus using the Immediacy menu plug-ins. Template design with an eye towards Search Engine Optimisation is also covered.

 

Course Prerequisites

  • Attendance of the Standard Editor Course.
  • Familiarity with CSS, HTML, XHTML to a level equivalent to that gained by attending the XHTML/CSS Primer course.

 

Aims and Objectives

By the end of this course attendees will have covered:

  • Changing the default styles used by the Editor
  • Setting up site wide, template specific and user selectable styles
  • Creation of templates with multiple editable areas
  • Insertion of plug-ins into templates
  • Having plug-ins render their output compliant with preferred formats/styles.
  • Producing Editor ‘mock ups’ of plug-in output
  • Allowing for different styles to be applied in the Editor and the live site.

 

This course is designed to equip its attendees with the knowledge to allow them to build Immediacy templates either from scratch or from existing, non-Immediacy templates. It is aimed primarily at Designers but should also be seen as an essential introduction for the Developer Course.

 
Download course overview in PDF format
 

Training bookings

To reserve a place on a training course please call Immediacy Training Services on:

 

+44 (0)1202 250000 or email training@immediacy.co.uk

 

(office hours are 08:30 - 17:30, Monday – Friday, excluding public holidays). 

 

Immediacy requires a company purchase order before we can confirm your place on the course. Unless otherwise stated courses are 1 day in duration (approximately 10:00 – 16:00).