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Classes at The Lifelong Learning Center
formerly Dickinson Lifelong Learning Center
taught by Nora McDougall-Collins

This page is for your information and convenience only. For class prices or to sign up, please contact the Dickinson office directly
406-549-8765.

Recommended Courses

The following courses will also help you with your web development:

Photography and Photoshop Classes
taught by Kathy Eyster and Jeremy Flesch

WordPress - taught by Phyllis Erck

Drupal - taught by Scott Rouse and Andy Laken

Web Development Course
Pre-requisites

  • Using a browser to find web pages.
  • Creating a new file (if you can do this in Microsoft Word, that will do it!)
  • Deleting a file
  • Creating a folder – you should be able to do this in Windows and in the Save type dialog boxes in all Windows programs.
  • Saving a file to a specific folder.
  • Renaming a file or folder both in Windows and in the file dialog boxes.
  • Keyboarding skills - expect to have to type!
  • If you use a Mac: you are welcome to bring your Mac laptop to class. However, the web development classes are not structured to help you create folders, find your files, save your files or move your files on your Mac. You MUST have these skills before you take the web development courses. We have received a number of complaints from other students about their own loss of class time for students needing this type of help.

SELF-TEST
There will not be time in these courses to teach these skills. If you need to brush up on them, please take the Introduction to Personal Computer course before enrolling in the Web Development Series courses!

Skills Classes Recommendations:

  1. Introduction to Mac Computers: F09-24
  2. Getting Started with Mac OS X: F09-25
  3. Mac Troubleshooting Workshop: F09-30
  4. Touch Typing on a PC: F09-1
  5. Getting Started with Windows XP: F09-4
  6. Getting Started with Windows Vista: F09-5

Design lessons on this page

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Courses for Spring 2012


CERT-001: WEBMASTER CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

S12-C12 - Beyond the Wordpress Dashboard
Running from May 7 to May 23 on Monday & Wednesday at 6:30 - 9:30 pm
You've learned all about building a site through the WordPress Dashboard, but there are things you want to do that it just doesn't do - like create your custom themes. Although WordPress was designed to give the site owner control, there are just some things that you have to go to the code level to do. Because WordPress is "open source" all the code is open to you! This course will introduce you to the inner workings of WordPress and open the door to total control. We will be using Dreamweaver as a tool to work on the files, but you can also install a free IDE on your computer for this class. Learn: 1) the basic file structure of WordPress, 2) the basic database structure of WordPress, 3) what happens to the files and database when you install a plugin, 4) how to start your own theme, 5) how to control your new theme with CSS, 6) what's all that PHP stuff? This course assumes that you already have plenty of experience with the WordPress Dashboard and that you have WordPress installed in your own web hosting account to use as a project for class. If you need help with that, Demystifying your Web Hosting Account and WordPress Install will be get you there!
Prerequisites:
S12-C14 - More Beyond the Wordpress Dashboard
Running from Jun 4 to Jun 20 on Monday & Wednesday at 1:00 - 4:00 pm
This class will focus primarily on 1) understanding what PHP is and how it fits into WordPress, 2) working in the PHP files in your WordPress. Bring your specific WordPress site needs to class! If you need to learn the basics of web programming and PHP, you should also find this class helpful!
Prerequisites:


 
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