Web Design Certificate
one-of-a-kind Job-Ready Web Training only at VSBT
Completely new updated program for Jan 2008!
During this 11 Week Intensive course you will learn how to build professional web sites with experts in a Busy Design and Development school/Studio! Our unique school is located in the heart of a fully operation web development and small business solutions provider, our parent company: northStudio.com Inc.
The Web Design Certificate Program provides a complete set of essential skills for Web Site Designers, using the most up-to-date techniques and software available. The program is available
Full Time or Part Time.
Use Adobe Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Photoshop and Illustrator CS3 products to produce industry standard web sites, including Flash, Video and Audio, Animation and more. Earn a Diploma in Web Site Design.
Once you have completed this program you can continue on to our Open Source Web Development Program
VSBT Student Financial Aid now available
| Price Comparison - Same Program Lower Price! Save over $2,000.00 at VSBT |
| School | Program | Cost | Total |
| VSBT | Web Design Certificate | $6,300.00 + GST | $6,678.00 |
| Camosun College | Web Design Certificate | $8,150.00 + GST | $8,639.00 + fees |
The Web Design Certificate Program - now available on a Mac or PC
This program is taught from a design perspective, is project-driven, and is updated frequently to meet the demands of today's employers. Why wait until September 2008 when you can be finished your schooling and employed before others even start their program at other schools?
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I just recently graduated from the WDD program at Victoria School of Business and Technology. Small class sizes, highly knowledgeable instructors and a super friendly /professional atmosphere makes this course stand out from the others. I was most impressed by the wide range of course content. The instructors would show you the basic starting points of learning each new software or task. Then an opportunity to explore ideas and create (kinda feels like just sitting around playing on the computer!). After getting familiar and comfortable with how things worked, skills would then be applied as needed in the Web Design industry. Overall the WDC course was more than I ever expected! Thank you VSBT and NorthStudio.com! Haimish McPherson |
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A one-of-a-kind program taught by professionals in the industry.
There is no better way to gain job-ready industry standard skills than to learn from the people who design and develop web sites every day, for literally hundreds of clients.
This Web Design Certificate Program is perfect for students to get up-to-date job ready skills in web design, using industry standard programs such as Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop and Illustrator CS3, and best of all using Flash to build interaction and animation right into your web site.
Our design and development team and school are located side by side, so you will be able to interact with our team of designers and developers while they are at work. You will gain valuable experience with access to a real design studio.
This is a 100% instructor led program taught by our own web development team. Instructors are in the class with students at all times, either instructing or helping with assignments. Help can also be found from all members of the northStudio.com team including interns, co-op students, faculty and other staff members throughout the buildings. It's a busy place, so there is always someone to help with whatever you are working on.
The course curriculum is continuous and each module flows perfectly into the next so that you understand the process and development techniques needed to build functional web sites for all types of clients, as we do every day.
- No previous computer skills are necessary, although it helps to have some computer experience. However, some of our students have had limited experience before enrolment and have been very successful.
- During the first week of class we will take each student over the various computers and operating systems of both PCs and MACs.
- You will have lots of time to perfect your typing, file management, organization and general understanding of the tools you need for computer operation and web development production.
Each component of the course will be taught by an industry professional currently working in the industry. You will also have speakers from northStudio.com's design, programming, and Project Management Departments to gain real world understanding and to see real client projects.
- Chris Deakin (main instructor)
- Myke Allen
- Melanie Carette
- Cathie Walker
- Dieter Gerhard
- Gord Christmas
northStudio.com (parent company of VSBT) will make some some of its current and past projects available to students so they can learn from real world solutions. View web sites for harpists, trampolines, whale watching, helicopters, computers, accommodation, elections, medicine, restaurants and more. Some course material will be taken from our team of senior and junior Designers' experiences working at northStudio.com.
This Web Design Certificate Program is designed for:
...students who would like to create and design web sites for personal or professional use in large organizations, design studios, or even to work on a freelance basis designing, developing and maintaining Internet and Intranet web sites.
This Program is for you if you:
- are currently running/starting your own business and
would like to create, manage or update your own web site; - want to start your own Web Design Company;
- would like a job in the Web Site Design industry;
- are looking to augment other career choices or your existing career;
- are interested in Web Site Design;
- want to create high end professional web sites;
- have an interest in Internet Technologies;
- are interested in having fun, learning and playing on the internet
(and supporting yourself at the same time); - want to create Animation or work with Audio and Video.
- Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3)
- Education versions of Adobe CS3 are greatly discounted from store prices once you are registered with VSBT.
- Students will be required to purchase their own copy of software for home use or if they use their own laptop at VSBT. VSBT students using VSBT computers will be supplied with all software needed.
Books: Certain books are mandatory, as an aid to instruction. Books are not included in the program cost.
Computers that we make available to our students are all brand new within the last few months and are loaded with all software and hardware needed throughout the WDC Program.
Our computers are all brand new with 19’ Flat Panel monitors
* AMD 64 3200+
* 2G of Ram
* A8N-VM Mother Boards
* DVD Burner
* Floppy
* Wireless Internet
* 200G Hard drives
If you have your own laptop you can use our wireless connection.
Our program content is always being adapted to the new and changing design and development needs of employers and clients. The expertise of our instructors, designers and developers helps to keep content fresh, up to date, fun, and 100% applicable to the needs of people and industry today. We use the latest versions of both software and computers for our programs.
- Program Introduction / Outline (1 session)
- File Management (1 session)
- Computer Accessories and Tools of the Trade (1 session)
- Web Fundamentals and Current Design Trends (1 session)
- Illustrator CS3 (5 sessions)
- What’s New
- A Quick Tour
- The Work Area
- Selecting and Aligning
- Creating Shapes
- Transforming Objects
- Drawing with the Pen Tool
- Colour and Painting
- Working with Type
- Working with Layers
- Blending Shapes and Colours
- Working with Brushes
- Applying Effects
- Applying Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles
- Working with Symbols
- Combining Illustrator CS3 Graphics with Creative Suite
- Illustrator – Professional Development Secrets (1 session)
- Photoshop CS3 Extended (5 sessions)
- The Work Area
- Basic Photo Corrections
- Retouching and Repairing
- Working with Selections
- Layer Basics
- Masks and Channels
- Correcting and Enhancing Digital Photographs
- Typographic Design
- Vector Drawing Techniques
- Advanced Layering
- Advanced Compositing
- Preparing Files for the Web
- Photoshop – Professional Development Secrets (1 session)
- Writing for the Web (1 session)
- Psychology of the User Experience (1 session)
- Plain Language and Effective Communication (1 session)
- Search Engine Optimization (1 session)
- Domain Names, Hosts and FTPs (1 session)
- Professional Web Practices and Standards (1 session)
- HTML/XHTML and Handcoding – A Primer (1 session)
- Dreamweaver CS 3 (5 sessions)
- A Quick Start
- Customizing your Workspace
- Applying Cascading Style Sheets
- Working with Text
- Designing with Images
- Inserting Links
- Crafting Page Layouts
- Creating Interactive Pages
- Integrating Ajax with Spry
- Constructing Forms
- Adding Multimedia / Flash Video
- Publishing to the Web
- Dreamweaver – Professional Development Secrets (1 session)
- PHP and mySQL – A Primer (1 session)
- Drupal and CMS (1 session)
- Professional Flash Design and Best Practices (1 session)
- Flash CS3 (5 sessions)
- Getting Acquainted
- Working with Graphics
- Creating and Editing Symbols
- Working with Text
- Adding Animation
- Creating interactive Files
- ActionScript Basics
- Using Components
- Working with Sound and Video
- Loading and Optimizing Flash Content
- Publishing Flash Documents
- Flash – Professional Development Secrets (1 session)
- Cascading Style Sheets – Positioning and Layout (2 sessions)
- Fireworks CS3 (3 sessions)
- Editing Bitmaps
- Using Vector Tools
- Working with Layers
- Adding Text
- Creating Buttons
- Advanced Techniques and Masking
- Optimizing and Exporting
- Fireworks and Dreamweaver for CSS Development (1 session)
- Cascading Style Sheets for Print (1 session)
- Cascading Style Sheets for Cell Phones / Mobile Devices (1 session)
- Device Central – Development and Testing of Flash and Web Applications for use in Mobile Devices (3 sessions)
- Project Week Preparation (1 session)
- Project Week (5 sessions)
Design:
During the design component of the course you will design logos, web templates, modify photos, create effects and designs in Flash and more.
WebSite(s)
You will independently plan, design and complete your own Web Site that meets or exceeds the needs of you or your client. You will choose a web site that you would like to develop either for yourself, or for a client, a potential client, or friend. Many students find web site contracts that pay during school.
Once completed, you will publish and then market your website on the internet.
The project is the student's choice, and may be designed for their own benefit, for example as an online portfolio or website to sell their services
Hosting will be provided by northStudio.com with an IP address for as long as you are a student. This includes an e-mail address and area to FTP or transfer files. The hosting account comes with all the extras including bulletin boards, guestbooks, password-protected directories, email lists, error pages, scripts, chat rooms, SQL databases, PHP and more.
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
- create, manage, update, and consult on web sites for small, medium and large size businesses;
- interact and manage clients as well as the web site you create during the course. Your final project will be to create a fully functioning web site, publish it, and then market it on the internet.
Web Site Design Certificate Awarded
Upon successful completion of your web site you will be awarded a Diploma of Web Design.
You will then continue on with our Internship Program if you so choose.
There is a growing demand for web designers and developers today. Graduates from our past two semesters have enjoyed a 100% job placement, both off-site and with our parent company northStudio.com. Employers regularly call us to ask for current students and/or graduates ready to develop or maintain web sites.
We are conveniently located across from the Saanich city hall, next door to HSBC Bank, Tim Horton's and Yoshi Sushi. Other amenities include:
- Boston Pizza
- Tim Horton’s
- Save On Foods
- Mother Computers
- Little Caesars
- Subway
- Walmart
- Fairways Market
Optional Internship Work Experience Program (IWEP)
The Internship Program (IWEP) complements the Web Design Program and solidifies the classroom experience while providing a large portfolio for student use.
You work along side us in a busy studio interacting with clients and eventually designing and building web sites from start to finish. While refining your skills working independently and with our design team, you may build as many as 15 full web sites depending on your aptitude, and may maintain as many as 200. Students will be encouraged to develop their own style and work methods, and will have plenty of time to use all the things they learned in the classroom. We have many students requesting internships, however, all VSBT students will be given priority in seat availability.
