Website Design
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Course Description
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.
Course Objectives
• Perform critiques of existing Web sites based on design principles, functionality, and audience needs, and suggest improvements.
• Use Photoshop to select, enhance, distort, color, scale and manipulate scanned images and artwork — or create them from scratch.
• Use Dreamweaver design sophisticated sites, creating advanced layouts by using tables, colors, style.
• Learn HTML tags, hancode pages, use templates and troubleshoot the HTML in major web design applications like Dreamweaver.
• Learn color principles, terminology, and applications, with an emphasis on manipulating color.
• Explore the anatomy of the fonts through interactive lectures and hands-on exercises, classify typefaces and use them creatively.
• Develop page compositional skills a series of artistic workouts applying the principles of effective composition.
• Learn to clearly organize a consistent and functional website from both a user and business perspective.
• Learn to plan, design, test, and promote websites.
• Improve graphic design skills and learn navigation design, and page layout.
• Develop a proficiency in Web foundations including HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Learn website project planning, layout, usability, learning different design styles, adding popup windows, forms, and CSS.
Course Outline
Intro to Web Design: Learn how the Web evolved, cover the technical fundamentals, and learn the design principles that characterize the leading sites. Through exposure to best (and worst) practices on the Web, you'll learn how to intelligently critique a Website design, both from a functional and an aesthetic standpoint.
Photoshop Basics: Learn the basics of Photoshop in this thorough six-lesson beginner help course. You will learn how to select, enhance, distort, color, scale and manipulate scanned images and artwork — or create them from scratch. Even if you just took your software out of the box, the course will help you learn and tame this creative powerhouse of a program.
Dreamweaver I: Dreamweaver integrates a host of design tools in one easy-to-use application. Without any advanced HTML knowledge, you can design sophisticated sites, creating advanced layouts by using tables, colors, style sheets, frames, and more. This intensive 6-lesson training course guides you through Macromedia's leading-edge Web editor, taking you from absolute beginner to intermediate level. You'll be weaving dreams on the Web before you know it!
HTML Basics: Learn HTML basics with an experienced professional. Thanks to today's HTML editors, (programs such as Dreamweaver, HomeSite, and Frontpage) entire sites can be designed without "hand-coding" in HTML. Applications to help users find the right HTML codes have become more user friendly, but for any Web designer, a baseline knowledge of HTML is critical. In this practical 3-lesson course, you'll cover everything from basic tags and tables to using templates and troubleshooting.
Color Theory: Color is probably the most relative medium in art. Each color has a specific property, whether it's the particular wavelength in optical perception, the molecular construction of pigments or an RGB value for a monitor. Though each of those properties may be fixed, the expression and perception of a color may change within different contexts. Understanding color requires that you understand its systems, interaction — even a bit of physics! This course deals with the abstract language of color. We'll discuss basic color principles, terminology, and applications, with an emphasis on manipulating color.
Fundamentals of Typography: Typography is what sets designers apart from other artists. In visual communication, typography must be integrated (every last loop, bowl, and descender) into a total design. In this 3-lesson course, you'll explore the anatomy of the letterform. Through interactive lectures and hands-on exercises, you'll learn how to classify typefaces and use them creatively. Understanding the fundamentals of typography will give your work power, eloquence, and beauty
Design and Composition: Composition, literally the assembly or construction of elements, is the artful arrangement that guides the viewer's eye and unifies your work. In this 3-lesson hands-on course, you'll develop your compositional skills by analyzing everything from Grand Masters to Madison Avenue ads to tubes of toothpaste. Through a series of artistic workouts, you'll learn the principles of effective composition, building to a Final Project.
Information Design: Clearly organized, consistent, and functional sites reap big rewards from both a user and business perspective. A great Web site is one that has been specifically planned, designed, tested, and promoted to connect the right user with the right message. In this course, you'll learn the difference that information design can make. The information designer is someone who pre-plans information hierarchies and pathways, effectively "paving the roads" and putting up signage before the traffic arrives.
Web Design I: Course assignments focus on project planning, layout, usability, learning different design styles, adding popup windows, forms, and CSS. Develop your Web design skills by training with one of the leading experts on Web design and technology. You'll complete the online course with a clutch of projects and a fully functional site to add to your portfolio.
Flash Basics: In this 6-lesson course, you'll develop a deep understanding for basic drawing and animating tools in Flash, mastering such critical interface elements as layers, scenes, nested symbols, and movie clips. You'll create an animated logo, a cityscape, a splash screen, a basic Flash site interface, and more.
Flash Website Design: If you're familiar with basic Flash animation techniques, learning to create sites in Flash is the perfect next step. Flash Web sites don't just engage Web visitors with motion, sound, and visual intensity. They also provide strong functionality and interactivity, unprecedented browser and platform compatibility, and a higher level of usability than you might expect. In this challenging, project-based course, you'll learn to create compelling, well-designed Flash sites, avoiding common pitfalls and "Flash abuse." You'll build on the basic Flash skills you already possess to learn a step-by-step approach to Flash web design you can apply to your professional projects.
Dreamweaver II: Some powerful features lie just below the surface in Dreamweaver, including precision layouts through Cascading Style Sheets, templates and asset management, and even the ability to create high-end interactive features without wading through reams of code. Each hands-on lesson and exercise combines upper-level Dreamweaver technology with visual Web design know-how. In this rigorous 6-lesson course, you'll take your existing knowledge of Dreamweaver to the next level, putting your skills a cut above the rest.
E-Commerce: In this hands-on course, you'll learn how to build a well-conceived, fully functional e-commerce Web site for your own business or your small business clients. Studying with one of the leading voices in Web site design, will help you learn a systematic approach to e-commerce development. From initially validating your business plan, to building your shopping cart, to setting up quality customer service, and fulfillment after the launch, you will be address the skills required to tackle e-commerce Web projects. Class projects guide you step-by-step through the design and business decisions that are critical to success. By the end of the course, you'll have built a fully functional site and gained the confidence to build more.
More Information
| Language | English |
| Course Length | 225.00 hours |
| Instructor | Margaret Penney |
| Vendor | Gatlin Education |
| Prerequisites/Audience | There are no specific prerequisite skills for this program. Each course builds on the skills and knowledge gained from the previous course. Students will begin with the Introduction course and work their way through the program. Students will need basic computer skills, and they will need to have access to the Internet, emailing capabilities, and be comfortable navigating the Internet. The intended audience for this program is anyone seeking a thorough web design education. |
| Requirements/Materials Included | This course is compatible with Windows Vista Operating System. |