Validates web authoring skills and best practices of Web design, including design theory, tools and technologies.
Key Takeaways
Site Development Essentials
Elements of the Web site development process, expectations with Web site project and design, and ethical and legal issues.
Web Design Elements
Web design principles, aesthetic qualities, and focus on an enhanced viewer experience. Principles of navigation, usability and accessibility.
Web Technologies
X/HTML, RSS, Web page structure, multimedia and plug-in technologies, client-side and server-side programming, databases, and internet marketing.
Certificate Exam Details
The Web Design Specialist course teaches how to design and publish Web sites. 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).
Certificate Competencies
- Web site development essentials, including the site development process, customer expectations, and ethical and legal issues in Web development.
- Web design elements, including aesthetics, the site user’s experience, navigation, usability and accessibility.
- Basic Web technologies, including Hypertext Markup Language [HTML], Extensible HTML [XHTML] and extended technologies, image files, GUI site development applications, and site publishing and maintenance..
- Advanced Web technologies, including multimedia and plug-in technologies, client-side and server-side technologies, and Web databases.
- Popular production tools, including Microsoft Expression Web, and Adobe Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash.
- Design and development technologies, including Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Extensible Markup Language (XML), JavaScript, Java applets and Dynamic HTML.
- Current issues in Web design, including the extensibility of design tools, compatibility of these tools, open-source applications and the functionality of current Web browsers.
