Course Title: Web Design Certificate
Hours required: 420
Price: $5,595
Length course offered: N/A
Instructor: Taz Tally [Bio]
Description:
This nationally recognized online Web Design certificate program focuses on developing the visual graphic and information design skills required to create compelling Web sites. Students learn professional applications for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Flash. Course projects include XHTML page markup, CSS-based layout and typography, home page and navigation design, Flash graphics and animations, and more. This online certificate program is offered in partnership with major colleges, universities, and other accredited education providers.
Goals:
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.
Grading System:
Confirmation of Completion awarded with passing score.
School Description:
Offered in connection with a college or university near you, our self-paced, online career courses are designed to launch you into your dream job.
Begin your course anytime. Textbooks are included, and you will have access to student support via phone, email, and chat 24 hours a day.
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Instructor Bio: Taz Tally
Claire Boger is an interactive designer and founder of ImaginationAlley.com, a Web-based software training and design resource site. Claire has more than 15 years of professional design experience, including corporate identity and package design. Over the past 10 years, Claire has concentrated on interactive media and was rewarded as co-recipient of a patent for CD-based technology AudioVisionCD. Claire has played a variety of roles in the development of both large- and small-scale interactive projects for such notable corporations as Daimler Chrysler, Kodak, Merrill Lynch, Mutual of Omaha, and MasterCard.
Donald Gambino is a computer artist, consultant, educator, and trainer. Since 1983, he’s taught students of all levels and abilities. Formerly the chairperson of the computer art department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, he has taught innovative computer art courses for over 12 years, and he created the BFA program in computer art.
Yeesan Loh is an interior designer, photographer, painter, and graphic designer who has extensive experience in architecture. Yeesan's photography and painting has been exhibited in Artworks Gallery in Miami and The Las Olas Art Center in Fort Lauderdale, and her photo essays were published in Vida magazine in Asia. Born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, she is currently an associate in Design Space Associates, a Florida-based interior design firm; co-owner and residential designer of StopDrop&Roll, a graphic tees company based in Buenos Aires; and a "New Malaysian," as featured by Harper's Bazaar, Malaysia.
Boris Margolin is a graphic designer with 10 years of experience. Boris has worked as an in-house designer for several major international corporations, including CIGNA, MetLife, and Nypro. While living in New Zealand, Boris worked at a brand development studio and at Victoria University. His design work has ranged from advertising design, to identity design, brand development, and Web design and administration, to Flash application development. In his spare time, Boris runs his own niche design company catering to unconventional companies and emerging markets.
Piper Nilsson is a graphic designer and information architect. In her four-year career for a leading Web design agency, she blueprinted sites for such global clients as MetLife, Pepsi, ETS, and Citibank. Her current projects include building an e-learning prototype for children with learning disabilities and teaching technology in New York City public schools. She received a degree in graphic design from Pratt Institute.
Margaret Penney is a teacher, designer, writer, and media artist. Margaret teaches Web, print, and motion graphic design, as well as multimedia and JAVA programming at an independent school outside New York City, where she designs the computer science department curriculum. As a Web designer and developer, Margaret has created a multi-channel community portal for Hong Kong teenagers, e-commerce for Delias.com girls' clothing, and a flash promotional for Nike, and currently she’s working on a site for artist Sol Lewitt.
As a new media artist, Margaret has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, and around NYC. Her artwork has been reviewed globally online, in print magazines, and included in the book Eye Candy from the Underground: Fresh Styles for Web Designers. She has lectured on new media art at Purchase College, the School of Visual Arts Annual Conference for Educators, and the Pratt Institute. As a writer, she’s been published in New York Arts magazine, Rhizome.org, and the Baltimore city paper. Margaret has a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and an M.F.A. from Columbia University.
Christopher Schmitt is the founder of Heatvision.com, Inc., a small new-media publishing and design firm, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. An award-winning Web designer who has been working with the Web since 1993, Christopher interned for both David Siegel and Lynda Weinman in the mid 90s while he was an undergraduate at Florida State University working on a fine arts degree with an emphasis on graphic design. Afterward, he earned a Masters in communication for interactive and new communication technologies while obtaining a graduate certificate in project management from FSU's College of Communication.
Christopher is the author of CSS Cookbook, which was named Best Web Design Book of 2006, and one of the first books that looked at CSS-enabled designs, Designing CSS Web Pages. He’s also the co-author of Professional CSS, Photoshop in 10 Steps or Less, and Dreamweaver Design Projects, and he contributed four chapters to XML, HTML, and XHTML Magic. Christopher has also written for New Architect magazine, A List Apart, Digital Web, and Web Reference.
Dr. Taz Tally is the president of Taz Tally Seminars, a computer publishing consulting and training company. Taz is the author of numerous graphics and print production books, including Photoshop Before and After Makeovers, Acrobat and PDF Solutions, Avoiding the Output Blues, and Avoiding the Scanning Blues, and he is a contributing author to The Photoshop World Dream Team Book. Taz has produced numerous instructional videos, CDs, and DVDs on scanning, prepress, Photoshop, color correction, and font management. Taz is a frequent presenter at seminars and trade shows throughout the U.S., and he’s a member of the Photoshop Dream Team at the biannual Photoshop World convention. Taz is a frequent contributor to Photoshop User magazine, for which he writes a regular prepress column.
