Required Skills

1. Internet Basics

Content may include the following:

* Important Internet committees
* Basic workings of the Internet
* Most common Web browsers
* FTP
* Basic workings of e-mail
* Newsgroups
* Real time and asynchronous communications
* Web technologies, helper applications and plug-ins (including what they are used for and when their use is appropriate)
* Anti-virus software
* Internet searching

2. Web Multimedia

Content may include the following:
* Basics of Web audio and video
* Basics of streaming audio and video
* Basics of the Flash format
* HTML vs. Flash-based Web sites
* Current multimedia standards

3. HTML & WYSIWYG Editors

Content may include the following:
* History of HTML, including at least the latest three versions (including XHTML)
* Basic concepts of HTML/XHTML coding
* HTML 4.0 and XHTML tags
* Tables (including use for layout)
* Forms
* Lists
* Frames (including the advantages and disadvantages of using them)
* Hyperlinks and anchors
* Use of WYSIWYG editors to integrate graphics and multimedia

4. Web Graphics

Content may include the following:
* Basic graphic issues
* Issues related to background images
* Basic color issues
* Issues related to graphic file optimization
* Digital cameras and scanners to acquire electronic images
* Graphics software programs for creation and modification of Web graphics
* Animated GIFs
* Web design considerations regarding viewing Web pages via non-graphical browsers or devices

5. Web Site Design

Content may include the following:
* Web site planning and design
* Critical elements of information design
* Critical elements of site/structure/navigation design
* Critical elements of page design
* Browser issues, connection issues, and platform issues
* Corporate identity and corporate design

6. Web Site Management

Content may include the following:
* File structure/organization of a Web site
* Proofing a Web site before publishing it
* Ongoing content management

7. Legal Issues

Content may include the following:
* Basic elements of a contract
* Copyright issue, fair use, and trademark

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