The Certificate in Web Design is an intensive program that prepares participants for employment as a web designer within a corporate art department or as a complement to a design background.

Software

The current top end web design programs, Adobe’s Dreamweaver and Fireworks are covered in this course. Academic versions are available to enrolled students by Adobe at highly discounted prices.

Prerequisites

• Basic computer and communication skills.
• Good design skills and knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator would be an advantage.

Outcomes

By the end of this course participants will be able to;

• have a thorough understanding of the workings of the internet and the role of an ISP
• design and develop a multi page website
• the ability to integrate various elements into, and launch a website

• Adobe Dreamweaver
• An overview of the program and roundtrip HTML.
• Creating tables.
• Inserting images and links.
• Planning your site and managing your site files.
• Laying out web pages and adding content to pages.
• Hand-coding.
• Setting up a web application and how to use Dreamweaver with other applications.
• Creating dynamic pages.
• Editing existing websites using Dreamweaver and hand coding.

Competencies covered

ICPSU216C Inspect quality against required standards

ICPSU260C Maintain a safe work environment

ICPSU262C Communicate in the workplace

ICPMM263C Access and use the internet

ICPPP211C Develop a basic design concept

ICAWEB409A Develop cascading style sheets

ICAWEB410A Apply a web authoring tool to convert client data for websites