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Topic: Small Business Websites

Having a web site for your small business helps level the playing field and gives you the opportunity to operate a global business from home. Before you even begin to think about marketing, you need to understand web site design and usability so that your visitors will find your web site inviting and easy to use. Toolie can explain how to plan and create a web site that makes you money.

Customizing Web Site Templates
Updating CSS and Layout for a Better Design

A web site template is only as good as your understanding of how it's put together. In this advanced session Toolie delves into the structure of pre-selected web site templates and shows you how to make changes so that your site is unique.
Prerequisites: HTML and Cascading Style Sheet knowledge.
Suggested course: Website Weekend Tech Camp.
    Half-Day

I Found Your Website Now What Do I Do?
Creating a User-Friendly Website

The answer to the title question starts long before you create a web site or hire web designer. If you start with a purpose statement and define what your web site will provide then visitors to your site will know what you want them to do! In this 90-minute session Toolie outlines best practices for determining what a web site should contain and how to design your site so that visitors stay once they find you.
    90 Minutes

Weekend Website Tech Camp
Getting Your Site Up and Running Now!

This two-day event is a live version of Toolie's popular Create Your Own Web Site course. Participants learn basic web design and usability HTML and Cascading Style Sheets for formatting tables for layout and learn how to manipulate and insert graphics and menus into the web site templates they create for themselves during class. Full details...
     2 Days

From Recent Web Site Workshop Participants

"I liked the HTML programming session. It was helpful to look at MetaTags: I got something from that immediately. I definitely am impressed with Jocelyn "Toolie" Garner's ability to keep everyone on schedule. "

"After attending Toolie's class I've realized that she has removed the mystery of HTML for me. Toolie has done this with ease and clarity. I recommend her coaching to every one who is not computer-savvy."

Dr Nili Sachs ~ Rockford, MN, www.drnili.com