VSBT

The Website Design program is offered in partnership with Gatlin Education Services.

This nationally recognized Website Design online training program focuses on developing the visual graphic and information design skills required to create compelling Web sites. Students learn professional applications for Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash, or equivalent software tools. Course projects include critique, digital imaging, color, typography, and composition, Web page design using HTML, tables, frames, and CSS, ecommerce and gateway pages, site maps and many more. This Website Design online certificate program is only offered in partnership with major accredited colleges and universities.

Students who complete the program can expect to learn to:

• Prepare bitmap images for print or the Web using basic Photoshop retouching and correction techniques, collage, and compositing.
• Create standards-compliant Web page layouts by hand-coding using HTML and CSS.
• Publish Web pages to a Web server using Dreamweaver FTP.
• Develop Web page and site layouts using Adobe Dreamweaver and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
• Gain a basic understanding of creative and career options in the Web design field (optional elective).
• Utilize the fundamentals of color, typography, and composition in developing page layouts.
• Design Web layouts, graphics, navigation buttons, and banner ads using Adobe Fireworks.
• Design basic Flash page graphics, animations, ads, and promotional sites.
• Develop a systematic approach to Web design projects using site maps, wireframes, usability, and competitive analysis.
• Develop a creative approach to Web design projects using mood boards and design comps.
• Transform comp layouts into valid HTML/CSS Web pages using hand-coding.
• Design Web page layouts for a range of different types of business clients.

Hands-on projects focus on essential skills and provide experience in professional Web design project scenarios. Class assignments include include digital retouching and compositing, XHTML page markup, CSS-based layout and typography, home page and navigation design, Flash graphics and animations, mouseover effects, competitive analysis, site maps, wireframes, mood boards, color palettes, blog layout, and portfolio site design.

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