Continuing Education

Continuing Education

Web Design Online Classes

Creating Web Pages
Learn how to design, create, and post your very own site on the Internet's World Wide Web. Discover low-cost marketing techniques and search engine strategies.

Creating Web Pages II
Are you using HTML to its fullest potential? In this hands-on course, you'll become adept at using color, tables, and frames to give your Web pages a more polished and professional look, improved navigation, and more organization. Beef up the fun factor with audio and interactive forms, and learn how to save hours of time and effort with Cascading Style Sheets.

Designing Effective Websites
This course will teach you powerful graphic design techniques that will help you build Web sites that are attractive and highly effective. You'll learn what attracts visitors to a site, and how you can create the most satisfying experience for those visitors. You'll learn to use typography, aesthetics, color, graphics, and page layout to create the most compelling user interface possible, and you'll understand how users read on the Web and the characteristics of effective Web writing.

Introduction to Dreamweaver MX 2004
If you want to be a Web designer, you need to know Dreamweaver MX 2004. In this highly interactive, project-oriented course, a Web pro will help you harness the full potential of this industry-standard development tool. You’ll find out how to create, arrange, and format text, images, hyperlinks, tables, and various other media types. You’ll also examine intelligent page design - with an emphasis on avoiding common layout errors.

Introduction to Flash MX 2004
In this six-week online course, you'll learn how to use Flash MX 2004 to create dynamic, entertaining, and interactive Web sites and other projects. You'll discover the basic tools and techniques for making a Flash movie. You'll use Flash to create and modify graphics and text, build simple animations, and design Web site navigation buttons. Before you know it, you'll have a solid understanding of Flash and how best to make it work for you.

Introduction to Microsoft FrontPage 2003
Learn the essentials of Microsoft’s popular Web site-building software. You'll begin with an introduction to basic Web design principles, and you'll explore the interface and features of the FrontPage program. Then, you'll learn how to manipulate words and images to create a site worthy of publishing to the Internet. By the end of the course, you'll be armed with all the knowledge you need to create an attractive, well-designed, and functional Web site.

Achieving Top Search Engine Positions
With nearly 90% of web traffic coming from search engines, the most important thing you can do to increase your web site's traffic is to increase your search engine ranking. Learn proven, step-by-step strategies to achieve the highest position with the major search engines.

Introduction to Dreamweaver MX
Master the best and most widely used Web design tool available. You’ll find out how to create and format text, images, hyperlinks, tables, and various other media types. You’ll also examine page design - with an emphasis on avoiding common layout errors.

Webmaster
This nationally recognized Webmaster online Certificate Program prepares students for a dynamic Internet based career as a webmaster.  Webmasters design, develop, and maintain websites.  This training program begins by teaching simple webpage development and progresses by introducing new concepts, involving you in active webpage implementation using HTML and Dynamic HTML.  Textbook included.  This online program is only offered in partnership with major colleges and universities.

Website Design
This nationally recognized Website Design online training program focuses on developing the visual graphic and information design skills required to create compelling Web sites. Students learn professional applications for Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash, or equivalent software tools. Course projects include critique, digital imaging, color, typography, and composition, Web page design using HTML, tables, frames, and CSS, ecommerce and gateway pages, site maps and many more. This Website Design online certificate program is only offered in partnership with major accredited colleges and universities.

Graphic Design Certificate Program
(405 contact hours) This program will prepare you for an entry-level position in the graphics industry. You'll learn the basics of design theory, and you'll apply that theory using industry-standard software such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. You'll also learn about typography and corporate and personal portfolio development.