Web Site Design - Northampton County Area Community College

Web Site Design from Northampton County Area Community College is a Campus Certificate Information Technology degree that prepares you for a IT career. Program Narrative This specialized diploma 16-credit program provides hands-on training in designing compelling and functional web sites. The program is taught in NCC\\\'s state-of-the-art Macintosh computer lab. As a student, you\\\'ll work with the same top line professional graphic designer software used at major companies, advertising agencies, and corporate communication departments. By the time you complete the program, you will have designed at least one fully functional web site to be used as a portfolio piece. The Web Site Design program introduces you to the full cycle of creative web site design and development, as it is most commonly found within industry. You will take your original design concepts from PhotoShop and Illustrator into ImageReady for processing, and then into Dreamweaver for building a finished web site. Working with Dreamweaver\\\'s powerful WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interface, you\\\'ll quickly learn to create interactive web sites, including such features as imagemaps, Frame-sets, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), forms, roll-overs, pop-up windows, sniffers and DHTML. You will also learn to use Flash to enhance your web sites with animation, video, sound and increased interactivity. Students applying for admission must be knowledgeable about either Windows or Macintosh operating systems and have some working knowledge of Adobe PhotoShop and Illustrator. Program Features Course work provides hands-on instruction in basic HTML coding and the use and understanding of current web authoring applications such as Dreamweaver and Flash. The majority of work in this program will use web-authoring applications, and will not focus on the use of HTML. Your web design skills will be developed using Macintosh computers, as well as current scanning, printing and photography hardware in Northampton\\\'s well-equipped digital lab. Your assignments will give you practical experience in solving design problems for the Web. You\\\'ll also benefit from close student-teacher instruction, as well as interaction with professional Web designers. Program Outcomes Graduates of the program will: Understand the basic concepts and use of HTML scripting language. Know how to use current Web design authoring software. Know how to optimize graphic files for the Web . Know how to use a basic digital camera to capture content for the Web. Understand copyright laws as they apply to Web design . Understand the history and development of the World Wide Web and the Internet. Know how to place a Web site on line using FTP software. Know how to test and monitor Web sites that are on line. Know how to \\\"tweak\\\" Web sites for viewing on current Web browsers. Know how to use Flash ActionScript programming. View more details on Northampton County Area Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Information Technology courses.