Digital Learning in Chicago, Illinois

Making a cool website only seems complicated. Actually, anyone (with a good eye, lots of patience and attention-to-detail) can do it. Digital Bootcamp classes cover all the basics of web development instruction including internet protocol, and coding, using HTML, CSS, as well as Adobe Dreamweaver. We also offer training in the more complex back-end web applications like PHP.
Will your email end up in the junk folder or the inbox? If you're uncertain, you'll want to learn all you can about this ever-expanding field. Every day your clients receive emails hocking the other guy's wares. Set yourself apart and learn how to create HTML and rich-content email campaigns that get read. We'll be using the "Constant Contact" service as a model that can be applied to any mass email service. When you're finished, you'll be sending your campaigns with confidence.
Before CSS, the world wide web was a wasteland of design. Now graphic designers and web designers alike have full control over the appearance of their websites thanks to Cascading Style Sheets. We'll show you how to develop graphics with CSS and HTML working together. You'll learn how to write clean, semantic HTML and properly tag it with CSS. And once you've discovered this elegant coding language, you'll never want to leave it behind.
CSS can be written two ways: sloppy or with care. In CSS Level 2, you will learn about the different types of selectors and how to resolve conflicts that might arise. You will also learn how to develop an inheritance structure that makes updating a breeze. And remember how you always wanted typographic control on the web? Well now you've got it and this is where you find it.
Put those tables in storage, it's time to pull out the CSS. Laying out pages with CSS can be tricky, but it's the most pure way to craft a functioning layout that is easy to update. You'll learn about older browser issues and how to combat them, as well as how to write CSS for the future. This is where you want to be!
An advanced 8-week course in HTML5 and CSS3.
A static webpage is fine for some people, but many internet users expect at least some interactivity. How do we give them what they want? Javascript. One of the most commonly used scripting languages on the world wide web, Javascript adds much of the necessary functionality most people take for granted on a website. You'll learn not only how to add Javascript to a page, but how to read it, edit it, and write it from scratch.
Like any scripting language, Javascript adheres to a logic that requires a good structure to work within. In this course, you'll learn about logical operators, if/then/else statements, and for/in loops. You'll also learn how to solve specific problems that might arise in the course of your work and how to troubleshoot client ideas.
Javascript has given you full control over how a page behaves when it is loaded into a browser. Now learn the world of functions and arrays to bring you that much closer to full control.
8-Week Bootcamp. The gold standard for interactivity.
Learn the rudiments of design and implementation for the pocket-sized web.
Data-driven websites and dynamic content are easily developed with a firm knowledge of PHP. Thanks to its open source development, PHP is a secure, widely accepted programming language that will allow you to create dynamically generated websites and to smoothly interact with databases. Whether you have server-side or client-side needs, you'll find everything you needed to know in this eight week bootcamp, beginning to end.
Whether your goal is to develop cutting-edge Web sites for your employer, your clients or your own enterprise, a deep understanding of the technologies, structure and creative possibilities surrounding today's Web projects is critical to your success. This 48-Hour course covers all the foundational content you will need to develop your own site, reserve a domain name, select a hosting provider and post your site for the world to see. It serves as the prerequisite to the more advanced Web Dev courses (HTML5, Javascript, PHP, etc).
The internet. You've been using it for over a decade and now you want to take part in the action. Unfortunately, efforts to learn how to even set up a website are usually hindered by the endless ads for hosting that keep popping up. In six hours, we'll have you buying a domain name, building a site, adding buttons and making things work. You'll be able to not only read HTML but write it. You'll also acquire a good working vocabulary that will help you understand the various learning paths you might take.
HTML is the coded skeleton of most websites. One of the simplest programming languages to learn, it contains of tags, tags and more tags. You'll learn the more advanced techniques of the language such tables, image slices, links and anchors. You'll also learn the essentials of styling your content for the web.
The back end. There's no front end without it. This module takes you deep into the world of information architecture, introducing you to server technologies, HTTP, FTP, sitemaps, and more. You'll learn how to create online forms and deliver the results. You'll also learn how to improve your sites design with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in preparation for the essential CSS courses.
Any large-scale content management and deployment system needs XML to wrangle the data into coherence. XML is a powerful language that allows you to organize your data and deliver it for multiple purposes from publishing to the web to wireless devices. Programs as diverse as Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Excel utilize the language as part of their advanced workflows. You'll learn how to set-up and write XML, with tags, elements, and attributes. You'll also learn how to deploy it with HTML and CSS.
There is no XML without semantics (applicable meaning). In order for your SML to work properly, consistency and planning is key. You'll learn the fine art of semantic XML and apply it to your content. You'll learn how to validate your XML and how to use programs such as XPointer and XPath.
InDesign prides itself on increasing the efficiency of a design team by utilizing not only Styles but also XML. in this course, you'll learn how to take everything you learned from the previous two XML levels and flow XML tagged content into a large document. You'll learn how to map tags to Paragraph and Character styles and how to take advantage of Master Pages. You'll also learn how to manage your database for maximum effect.