Web Design Certificate Program
Web Design Certificate Program
This introductory program delves into the basic design, planning and development of
a web-site. Basic understanding of Windows and the Internet are prerequisites. Adobe
Creative Suite CS5 will be used for all courses. To earn a certificate in web design,
candidates must complete the following five courses: Photoshop Skills for the Web,
Dreamweaver Basics and Essentials, HTML and CSS Basics, Advanced Dreamweaver and CSS
and Maintaining a Website. This is also the preferred order for courses to be taken.
Please contact Marci Barnes at 781-280-3669 or barnesm@middlesex.mass.edu if you have
questions about coursework or to request a certificate.Students who earn the Web Design
certificate can be awarded 3 credits for Course #ART 158, Introduction to Web Design.
DreamWeaver Basics and Essentials
Dreamweaver is the web development program used by more than 80 percent of web professionals.
Students will learn to use Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) work
flow to define sites, format text, insert graphics and media, create hyperlinks, tables,
and forms. Students will create a 5-page, working website and practice publishing
it to a simulated web host. Students must have working knowledge of Windows. (21 hrs)
$379
3/6-5/1 6p-9p R B
NA-102
TEC 623 30 14475 DONOHUE
No class 3/20 or 4/24
HTML & CSS Basics
This course offers an introduction to HTML code used for creating web pages on World
Wide Web as well as the basics for styling pages using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets.)
In the process of creating a small working web site, topics covered include HTML tags,
text, lists, adding simple images, hypertext links, tables and forms. Students will
also explore the use of CSS to develop site-wide page properties, text-formatting,
table styling, and more. This course requires hand coding using Dreamweaver's built
in HTML/CSS editor. Students must have basic word processing skills, knowledge of
Windows, and of the Internet. (21 hrs) $379
5/7-6/18 6p-9p W B
NA-102
TEC 624 31 15766 DONOHUE
Maintaining a Website
This course will take the students through the planning process of developing a website
from client meeting to site launch and beyond. Topics will include work flow, client
meetings,contracts,color,wire framing, web hosting, domain registration, development,
SEO (search engine optimization) and analytics. Students will also learn to incorporate
Facebook and Twitter (social media plug-ins) into their site. (12 hrs) $189
5/5-6/2 6p-9p M B
NA-102
TEC 639 30 16144 DONOHUE
No class May 26
Attention Massachusetts Small Business Owners: This program is approved by the Massachusetts Workforce Express Fund. This pool
of funding is designed for small business owners with less than 100 employees to quickly
provide training for employees. Funding is paid to employers (not employees). If
eligible, this fund will reimburse employers 50 % of the tuition cost. Employers
must apply 6 weeks in advance. For more information, please contact Kara O'Donnell
Galvin at KOGalvin@commcorp.org or 617-717-6919
The state approved course number is 1091805, Web Design Certificate
Other Web Design Courses:
JavaScript
This introductory course is designed for the student who has mastered XHTML and would
like to add interactivity to his or her websites. Topics covered include basic JavaScript
programming, creating interactive forms, using frames and cookies, working with graphics
and multimedia. Students will incorporate various JavaScript programs into existing
websites. Please bring a flash drive to class. Prerequisite: Proficiency with XHTML
or HTML. No required text. PDFs are freely available and can be downloaded from course
Blackboard site at course beginning. Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to
Programming (http://eloquentjavascript.net/); Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML (PDF);
the Web Book: How to create Web sites and applications with HTML, CSS, JavaScript,
PHP and MySQL (PDF); Software Tools: HTML-Kit; free version available at http://www.chami.com/html-kit/download/
Filezilla; FTP client freely available at http://filezilla-project.org/
(18 hours) $269
6/10 - 7/22 6 – 9p T B AR-101
TEC 740 30 12771 DUBIE
No class July 1
