CIW Website Design Specialist Tutorial

Course Description

In this 7 session training course Debbie Berg will take you through the steps to build user friendly, interactive websites that visitors can easily navigate. You will learn important concepts about website layout, color design, and website planning. Explore with our expert how to use Photoshop, Flash, and Expression Web to make websites come alive. Work with HTML, XHTML, CSS, and Div Tags. You will also be introduced to JavaScript and Java. Learn how to use Dreamweaver or Expression Web to build highly interactive web pages. This training course will also prepare you to take the CIW Web Design Specialist exam 1D0-520 

The course outlines are as follows:

• Instructor-Led Video Training
• Demos and Lab Learning
• Support via forums
• Multi-Media Presentations
• Practice Exams and Test Simulators
• Self-Paced Navigation
• Online Delivery

Who is CIW?

CIW (Certified Internet Web Professionals) is the non-profit association advancing the global interests of internet web professionals

What is CIW Website Design Specialist ?

The CIW Web Design Specialist course is for the individual who wants to develop the skills necessary to specialize in Web site design. In this course, you will build upon your basic Web authoring skills to learn the essentials and best practices of Web design, including design theory, tools and technologies.

General topics include Web Site Development Essentials (such as the site development process, customer expectations, and ethical and legal issues in Web development), Web Design Elements (such as aesthetics, the site user's experience, navigation, usability and accessibility), Basic Web Technologies (such as basic Hypertext Markup Language [HTML], Extensible HTML [XHTML] and extended technologies, image files, GUI site development applications, site publishing and maintenance) and Advanced Web Technologies (such as multimedia and plug-in technologies, client-side and server-side technologies, and Web databases). 

In this course, you will work with popular production tools such as Microsoft Expression Web, and Adobe Dreamweaver and Flash. You will study design and development technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Extensible Markup Language (XML), JavaScript, Java applets, Dynamic HTML, plug-ins, multimedia and databases. You will also explore the extensibility of design tools, incompatibility issues surrounding these tools, and the functionality of current Web browsers. 

Web Design Specialist will also teach you to manage the Web site development process. You will learn about new technologies and traditional strategies involving the Web designer job role. Throughout this course, you will learn how Web sites are developed as managed projects, relate Web site development to business goals, and apply guidelines for user accessibility to Web site development. You will also consider site design from several perspectives. You will approach design from the Web user's perspective so that you can identify with user interests and needs. You will also assume the roles of Web designer and project manager, as you work through the Web site development process by evolving a Web presence site into a working prototype Web project. Hands-on labs include real-world scenarios based on a previously live version of the Habitat for Humanity International Web site.