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If you have an idea for a Web-related training that we don't do, but you could do, contact us! We'd love to hear your idea and how it might fit into our suite of Web trainings.

If you're new to EPA Web development, we recommend that you start with Web 101 - it will explain many aspects of EPA Web pages before you get into specific standards, writing guidance, etc.

These courses are designed for EPA employees, their support contractors, cooperative agreement holders, or others who work on Web pages with EPA. Which training is for me?

 

Individual Courses

SORTED BY COURSE  Sort by audience type
Web 101: EPA Basics Coders, Writers, Reviewers
Web Infrastructure 101 Coders and developers
Web Governance and Product Review Coders, Writers, Reviewers
Design the EPA Way (formerly Web Standards) Coders, Writers, Reviewers
Plain Language Writers, Reviewers
Writing for the Web Coders, Writers, Reviewers
Marketing to Management Writers, Reviewers
Using Graphics Well Coders, Reviewers
Using Graphics 201 Coders, Reviewers
Section 508, Accessibility and Web Design Coders, Reviewers
Site Usage Statistics Writers, Reviewers
Usability Testing: Do It Yourself Coders, Reviewers
Web 2.0 Introduction Coders, Writers, Reviewers
Writing a Blog Post: Not Your Typical Web Page Writers, Reviewers
Earth Month Outreach: Mixing Web 1.0 and 2.0 Writers, Reviewers

Or scroll down this page to read about each course, below.

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Web 101: EPA Basics (one 1-hour session)

Audience: Coders, Writers, Reviewers. This training will help you get oriented if you are new to EPA, new to Web work, or oversee a Web contractor. Take this training if: you don't know what a TSSMS account is, what RTP does, the role of the Web Council, or where to find the Web Guide. You will learn:

Note - this training doesn't include technical skills such as using Dreamweaver, editing graphics, or uploading files to a Web server.

See also: Web Infrastructure 101, Section 508, Accessibility and Web Design

Cost: Free

Presentation: PowerPoint (2.9 MB) | print version with 2 slides per page (PDF, 16 pages, 3.3 MB) | List of links in this presentation

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Web Infrastructure 101 (one 1-hour session)

Audience: EPA Web site developers and coders. This training will help you if you develop or oversee development of Web areas or Web-enabled applications at EPA, to understand technical infrastructure supported by the National Computer Center, and things you should know to ensure smooth site development and ongoing site management. You will learn:

Note - this training requires no technical skills such as software programming or access to a Web server.

See also: Web 101: EPA Basics

Cost: Free

Presentation: EPA Web Infrastructure 101 (PDF) (24 pages, 1.2 MB)
(please check here on the morning of the training for any updates to this presentation)

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Web Governance and Product Review (one 1-hour session)

Audience: Coders, Writers, Reviewers. In 2004 the Administrator chartered EPA's Web Council to oversee EPA Web development and maintenance, for both Agency content online and infrastructure support. This training will explain:

Cost: Free

Presentation: PowerPoint | HTML

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Design the EPA Way (formerly Web Standards; one 2-hour session)

Audience: Coders, Writers, Reviewers. You need to understand EPA Web standards whether you are an EPA employee making your own pages or reviewing contractor work, or a contractor coder creating pages for EPA.

See also: Section 508, Accessibility and Web Design

Cost: Free

Presentation: PowerPoint | print version with 2 slides per page (PDF, 15 pages, 197 KB)

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Plain Language (one 2-hour session)

Audience: Writers, Reviewers. Writing clearly requires more than technical knowledge and a spell checker. Plain language training will give you fresh and sometimes unexpected ideas and techniques for organizing your information for readers. You will learn more about:

See also: Writing for the Web

Cost: Free.

Presentation: PowerPoint | print version with 3 slides per page (PDF, 37 pages, 882 KB)

Register Note: if possible, take this training before Writing for the Web. Why?

 

Writing for the Web (one 2-hour session)

Audience: Coders, Writers, Reviewers. Studies show that Web users look at and read information on a computer screen very differently than how they would read the same information if printed on paper. This training will help you understand how to:

See also: Plain Language

Cost: Free.

Presentation: PowerPoint | print version with 3 slides per page (PDF, 25 pages, 880 KB)

Register Note: if possible take this training after Plain Language. Why?

 

Marketing to Management (one 1-hour session)

Audience: Writers, Reviewers. This course will help you reach out to program staff and managers, and how to keep your Web sites on everyone's radar without being a pest. This class was originally called "Building a Strong Web Presence." It's the same course with a more descriptive name.

Presentation: PowerPoint | HTML

Cost: Free

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Using Graphics Well (one 2-hour session)

Audience: Coders, Reviewers. Graphics can greatly enhance text, convey direct content, and add visual appeal to engage users' interest. But graphics done poorly can undercut the effectiveness of the content or activity the user is supposed to do. This course will cover the basics of both aesthetics and implementation, with many examples.

See also: Using Graphics 201

Cost: Free

Presentation: PowerPoint (4.8 MB) | Print version with 2 slides per page (PDF, 20 pages, 2.6 MB)

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Using Graphics Well 201 (one 2-hour session)

Audience: Coders, Reviewers. This "How To" clinic is a crash course in operating Image Editing Software (Photoshop) to perform simple tasks that will prepare images for the web. You will find that many of the tools and techniques used in Photoshop are similarly offered in other image editing packages. You will learn:

See also: Using Graphics Well

Cost: Free

Presentation: Powerpoint (2.4 MB) | Print version with 2 slides per page (PDF, 26 pages, 780 KB)

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Site Usage Statistics (one 1-hour session)

Audience: Reviewers. Key to good Web management is understanding user traffic on your site. Usage statistics can help you learn how people are using your Web site, if they are going to the pages you think they are going to, or which pages are the most popular - which your boss may also want to know. You will learn:

Cost: Free

Presentation: PowerPoint | HTML
Related training materials:

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Usability Testing: Do It Yourself (one 1½-hour session)

Audience: Coders, Reviewers. Studies show that people generally look at and use information on computer screens in certain ways, even if they aren't aware of doing so. But understanding these ways can help design and layout Web information so it is naturally easy to use. You will learn:

Cost: Free

Presentation: PowerPoint | HTML
Expert review checklist: Word document

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Section 508, Accessibility and Web Design (one 1½-hour session)

Audience: Coders, Reviewers. This course outlines Section 508 accessibility background, requirements, and provides lots of examples of ways to address a variety of situations.

See also: Design the EPA Way

Cost: Free

Presentation: PowerPoint | Screen reader simulation
Related: the 16 requirements | the Access Board page

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Web 2.0 Introduction (one 2-hour session)

Audience: Coders, Writers, Reviewers. Web 2.0 offers new ways to engage and interact with the public, such as blogs, wikis, youtube, and more. This training will help you understand

See also: Earth Month Outreach: Mixing Web 1.0 and 2.0

Cost: Free

Presentation: PowerPoint | Print version with 2 slides per page (PDF 15 pages, 1.6 MB)

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Writing a Blog Post: Not Your Typical Web Page (one 1-hour session)

Audience: Writers, Reviewers. Have you been invited to blog? Blogging is personally sharing your own stories and experiences, and trying to engage readers in a "conversation" through comments. This training will cover writing a blog entry for EPA's "Greenversations" blog such as what we look for, writing style, length, and in general how the blog works, and what a blog is not (it's not, for example, regurgitating fact sheets or programmatic information as posted on epa.gov).

See also: Web 2.0

Cost: Free

Presentation: Powerpoint (10 pages, 188 KB) | Print version with 2 slides per page (PDF 32KB, 5 pages)

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Earth Month Outreach: Mixing Web 1.0 and 2.0 (one 1-hour session)

Audience: Writers, Reviewers. Online technologies called "Web 2.0" or "Social Media" offer new, exciting ways to engage the public. But the first step is to consider why a certain Web 2.0 thing should be used, rather than the perceived need to use a Web 2.0 tool. This training will review EPA's 2008 Earth Day month suite of Web 2.0 tools as a part of the overall communications strategy, to spark interest and lead people more into EPA Web content. Included in the discussion are:

See also: Web 2.0

Cost: Free

Presentation: Will be provided at training.

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