Web Designing

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design; interface design; authoring, including standardised code and proprietary software; user experience design; and search engine optimization.

CERTIFICATION

Learn fundamentals of visual design, Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver, and standards-based Web coding in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Your Web design portfolio at the end of the Professional certificate program will include published Web sites that showcase your front-end visual designs and your coding skills.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Employ fundamental computer theory to basic programming techniques.
• Use fundamental skills to maintain web server services required to host a website.
• Select and apply markup languages for processing, identifying, and presenting of information in web pages.
• Use scripting languages and web services to transfer data and add interactive components to web pages.
• Create and manipulate web media objects using editing software.
• Incorporate aesthetics and formal concepts of layout and organization to design websites that effectively communicate using visual elements.
• Conceptualize and plan an internet-based business that applies appropriate business models and web technologies.
• Combine multiple web technologies to create advanced web components.
• Design websites using appropriate security principles, focusing specifically on the vulnerabilities inherent in common web implementations.
• Incorporate best practices in navigation, usability and written content to design websites that give users easy access to the information they seek.