Is this web development course well rounded?

The college I've enrolled with is offering this for their web design/development course:





• Exploring Web Site Design Methodology.


• Basic Design Concepts.


• Page Layout and Design.


• Site Navigation.


• Graphics.


• Multimedia.


• The Development Process.


• Understanding Web Site Design Technology.


• HTML Standards and Compliance.


• HTML Tables and Page Structure.


• HTML Frames and Site Design.


• Metadata in HTML.


• Cascading Style Sheets.


• Plug-Ins and Downloadable Files.


• Using Web Site Development Tools.


• Microsoft FrontPage 2000.


• Macromedia Dreamweaver


• Allaire HomeSite


• Macromedia Flash 5.0 and Dynamic Media.


• Applying Advanced Design Technology.


• JavaScript and Client-Side Web Scripting.


• Java Applets in Web Pages.


• Extensible Markup Language and Authoring.


• HTTP Servers and Cookies.


• Web Site Publishing and Database Technology.





Please give me your opinion on this. The tuition is 4 classes a week, of 3 hours duration each. And this is for 6 weeks.





Is this enough?

Is this web development course well rounded?
It's both more than enough, and also NOT enough, all a the same time.





Here's the problem... a truly successful, QUALITY website takes a large number of diverse skills that are rarely bundled up in one person. For example...





1) Design and layout and usability studies... the creative/artsy stuff.





2) Web programming, database design, writing program specifications... the software engineering stuff.





3) Writing for the web... tailoring content to be search-engine-friendly, developing strategies to successfully "market" a website, managing a flow of incoming data from contributors (to keep the site "live" and updated).... the advertising and writing end.





4) Managing database backups, managing and maintaining relations with the registered users... the "boss", administrative, manager and IT department stuff.





A great way to measure what direction you want to go, and the skills that apply to the field that interests you... have a look at the "job roles" over on Brainbench... they recommend a specific set of certification tests based on the job role you're after. Some of the tests are free, most aren't... but you can look at the outlines of each test for free, and it will give you an idea of what topics you'll want to cover.
Reply:NO man this is not web development


It is only web designing(for it, it is sufficient)





Development means Server Side Scripting in any of the language such as ASP, ASP.NET, JSP or PHP.
Reply:That should be more than enough to get started. Once you get into it you'll see what you're interested in and focus on that. If you're into pure HTML then you can focus on that. Most people use dreamweaver, its a pretty nice tool.





I think if you take that class you'll do fine.
Reply:This would be a good start if you have never had any experience at all with web design. I do this for a living and most of the listed software is out of date but the methods should still be the same. If I were truly trying to learn from these classes I would focus my energy on studying HTML (xhtml) JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets. You do not need any specific software to get started doing web development, just a good text editor (notepad) a browser (firefox) and a graphics manipulation program Gimp, paint shop pro, or the industry standard Adobe Photoshop.





Something that I do not see mentioned is SEO or search engine optimization which is very important if you want people to be able to find your web page.





AJAX is also something that is not mentioned in the list and it stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is one of the most powerful implementations of web technologies today.





Also if you are planning to use the firefox browser (I highly recommend it) get the Web Developer Tool Bar and FireBug add-ons. They will make your browser an integral tool for the development of websites by extending your browsers capability so that you can study how other people have engineered some of your favorite web sites.





If you design your sites to be compatible with Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 or 7, and Safari you will cover the vast majority of all web browsers used on the market today.
Reply:No, I believe this aint really enough. Well this course seems to be a start but I dont really see any serious web programming in your syllabus. If you are just planning to become a designer then this would help, but if you are looking to be a developer this wouldnt suffice.





Try to go for a more practical oriented course as yours seems to be more into theories. And look for a course that involves serious web programming both server side and client side and also any popular accompanying DBMS.





I would suggest PHP/MySQL to be a good start and slowly move onto ASP, ASP.NET, C#, Perl, Java, JSP along with Oracle and MS SQLServer along with your above syllabus.

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