Workshop Abstracts

All workshops end 10 minutes before the hour

Accessible Microsoft Word and PDF

• Learn how to properly tag your Microsoft Word documents and Adobe PDF files so they are accessible to individuals with disabilities.

Introduction Dreamweaver: Creating Web Pages

• Part I will focus on more introductory instruction with Dreamweaver. Learn how to: add text and pictures to a webpage, work with formatting, link pages within your site and add external links or email addresses to your webpage.

Intermediate Dreamweaver: Creating Web Pages

• Part II will focus on intermediate to advanced instruction with Dreamweaver. Learn how to: create rollovers, add tables and upload your files to the UIC servers.

Advanced Dreamweaver: Creating Web Pages

• The advanced session will cover templates, various behaviors....

Introduction Cascading Style Sheets

• Learn the basics about what Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are and why they are important for Web development in this day and age.

Intermediate Cascading Style Sheets

• Dive into Cascading Style Sheets and learn how to create a wide variety of styles and how you can easily change the look and feel of a Web site by changing the style assocaited with the site.

HTML Best Practices and FAE “Functional Accessibility Evaluator”

• Get down and dirty with this advanced topic about creating proper HTML Web pages and how to run them through the FAE (Functional Accessibility Evaluator) to fix any non-accessible code your page is using.

Illinois IT Accessibility Act

• Learn about the specifics regarding the new Illinois IT Accessibility Act for Web sites and what steps you need to take to stay in compliance.

Introduction to Microsoft Excel: Creating Spreadsheets and Graphs with Microsoft Excel

• This workshop covers the basics of using Excel. The Excel spreadsheet layout, entering and editing data, formulas and functions, cell references, formatting cells, and charting will be covered.

Intermediate Microsoft Excel: Creating Data, Scenarios and Functions with Microsoft Excel

• This seminar covers different features of Microsoft Excel. Importing a file, Excel databases, one-input tables, scenarios, the LOOKUP function, and linking files will be included.

Microsoft PowerPoint: Creating Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint for Beginners

• This workshop is a hands-on session for beginners to familiarize themselves with this PowerPoint. With its easy-to-use tools for creating presentations, PowerPoint will transform the way you communicate ideas. PowerPoint is powerful and easy to use. Create a presentation, change background designs, insert images and save as an html document.

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