Website Design

With an increasing number of companies choosing to market their businesses online, the need for good website designers is growing. So if you’re thinking of embarking on a career in this much in demand industry, the Pitman Training Website Design course is the ideal opportunity to learn the skills you need to get started.

The course will take you through each aspect of the design and build process step by step – ensuring your websites are both user friendly and interactive so visitors can easily navigate.

You’ll learn about layout, web safe colours and how to create a site plan, together with the production tools including Microsoft Expression Web, Adobe Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash. What’s more you’ll learn about design and development technologies, including Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Extensible Mark-up Language (XML), JavaScript, Java applets and Dynamic HTML.

The CIW Website Design course is a vendor neutral exam 1D0-520, so to pass it you won’t need to know how to use production tools like Flash or Dreamweaver, but you will need to understand the technologies they can produce. On completion of this course, you will receive a Pitman Training Course Completion certificate*.

* Please note that Vendor specific exams may need to be organised separately.

Through studying this course you'll learn how to build user friendly, interactive sites that visitors can easily navigate, grasping important concepts about layout, colour, and site planning. You'll also explore how to use Photoshop, Flash, and Expression Web, and work with HTML, XHTML, CSS, and DIV Tags.

This course also introduces JavaScript and Java and teaches you how to use Dreamweaver or Expression Web to build highly interactive web pages.

If you're looking for a career in Web Design, this is a great place to start to build your knowledge and experience.

Experience with working in an online environment would be preferable prior to starting this course.

There are seven sessions in this course:

Session 1: The Internet Today, Planning the Web Site, Guidelines, XHTML, Images, Colour.

Session 2: Photoshop CS3 Basics, Working with Photoshop CS3, Optimizing Photoshop Images, Tables, Formatting Text, Links.

Session 3: Cascading Style Sheets, CSS Formatting, Frames, Using Multimedia on Web Pages, JavaScript.

Session 4: Java, XML, Server Technologies, Databases, Accessibility, Dreamweaver CS3, Dreamweaver Essentials.

Session 5: Dreamweaver CS3 Templates, Adding Interactivity with Dreamweaver, Building Web Forms with Dreamweaver, CSS with Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver Productivity Tools, XHTML and Dreamweaver.

Session 6: Expression Web, Expression Design Tools, Expression Templates, Adding Interactivity with Expressions, Building Web Forms with Expression, CSS with Expression, XHTML with Expression.

Session 7: Flash CS3, Flash CS3 Animation Basics, Designing Web Sites with Flash, Publishing Flash Movies, Managing Web Sites.

This course can be studied online. This means, you have the flexibility to study our Website Design course:

• In centre, with our friendly course advisors available for support and guidance as and when you need it.
• At home or from work – with support via email or telephone during working hours.
• On a blended mix – in-centre for the modules you need help with, at home or from work for those you are gliding through.

Once you’re ready to go ahead, all you need to do is contact your nearest Pitman Training centre who will be able to talk you through the process and set you up on the online platform, and then you’ll be ready to study the Website Design course at a time and place convenient to yourself.