Web Development

Through fun and engaging experiences with web authoring and media software, students will learn how to create their own web pages with different media. Students will explore the principals of web development, express their creativity as well as think and process visual ideas and concepts logically. This camp will also excite their imaginative and blossoming minds, challenging them to take full advantage of the future communication and expression platform.

Featured Software

KompoZer is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor based on a rewritten version of the now-discontinued Nvu editor. As a WYSIWYG editor, it is designed to be easy for novice users and does not require any knowledge of HTML or CSS to use. As they create and share web pages, young people learn important visual and logical ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Gimp is an Open Source image manipulation program. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool, in addition to offering freeform drawing, GIMP can accomplish essential image workflow steps such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats.

Joomla is an award-winning open source content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of.