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Essentials of Web Design Certificate Program

Implementation Date: Fall 2003

The Professional Skills Program sponsors a certificate program in the Essentials of Web Design. This certificate will be awarded to students who complete 25 days of classes (1 & 2-day short courses) in the area of web design and development. Upon completion, students will have a well-rounded understanding of how web sites are created and maintained.

Below are the courses of study included in the Essentials of Web Design certificate. This form is intended to help you track the courses as you take them. Upon completion of a course use the "Completed" column to check off each course to see how close you are to earning the Essentials of Web Design certificate. For course substitution questions or challenging the Windows course, contact mary.payment@osp.nc.gov.

To be officially enrolled in the program, you will fill out a form to be kept on file at the center. As you complete each class, make sure to update this form so that we too may be able to track your progress. Placing you on this select list of students also puts you on an email list that will notify you each semester of upcoming Web classes or changes in our program. You may ask to be removed from the email list at anytime.

The prerequisite courses for this certificate is Microsoft Windows Level 1 or equivalent knowledge.

For more information, call (919) 733-8361.

Print 2010 Application for Essentials of Web Design Certificate

Effective Spring 2010 (Recommended courses) Although this would be the preferred order of classes, order of taking classes may depend on offerings, please watch the prerequisites for each class.
Course	Days	Completed
Planning a Web Site: What you need to know to start a Web project.	1
Photoshop, Level 1: Working with an image editor	2
XHTML, Level 1: Web Development tools available and current Web Standards, introduction to the Web Code	2
Web Site Graphics: Preparing your graphics to be used on the Web	1
XHTML, Level 2: Learning the code, working with Style Sheet basics	2
Web Writing & Search Engine Optimization: Writing for the User and for Search Engines	2
XHTML, Level 3: Complete XHTML code and learn about FTP clients to move files	2
Dreamweaver, Level 1: Working with Dreamweaver. Adding text, images and links. Using Dreamweaver for CSS	2
Dreamweaver, Level 2: Working with tables, layouts, rollovers, and templates	2
Dreamweaver, Level 3: Working with forms, behaviors, code tools, and accessibility issues	2
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): Advanced Styles: Page layout and components using CSS	1
Web Design Techniques: Testing for accessibility and making your site more accessible	1
JavaScript for Non-programmer: Understanding web page interactivity and how to add JavaScript code to your Web page	2
Total Days:	22
Electives (need 3 days of electives):
Grammar for the Workplace (highly recommended before Web Writing- 2 days) Flash Level 1 (2 days); Flash Level 2 (2 days) Photoshop Level 2 (2 days), Photoshop for Digital Photography (2 days) MySQL Level 1 (2 days), MySQL Level 2 (2 days)
Expression Web may be taken in place of Dreamweaver Expressions Web Level 1 (2 days) Expressions Web Level 2 (2 days) Expressions Web Level 3 (2 days)

25 class days required to qualify for Essentials of Web Design Certificate