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.
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 hours) $379
1/26-3/16
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
1/21-3/11
flow as well as formatting and laying out your page structure using the CSS panel. Students will
also be introduced to JavaScript driven, Spry widgets to quickly create drop-down menus,
accordion boxes and form validation without having to write a single line of code! This course
requires basic knowledge of Windows, Internet, and HTML (21 hrs) $379
3/23-5/4
Adobe Photoshop's tools to create images, edit photos and optimize for use in web based projects.
Some of the topics covered will include file formats, color corrections, selections, spot touch ups,
cropping, resizing, adjustment layers, adding text, how to composite images, special effects and
more. Students will create headers, background images, banner ads and other content that can
then be integrated into Adobe Dreamweaver. Students must have working knowledge of
Windows. (21 hrs) $379
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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
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Course #ART 158, Introduction to Web Design.