Web Page Designer Training Program Overview
Realize your creative potential and take the first step toward becoming a Web Designer with ICS Canada’s online Career Diploma training program. Learn how to design eye-catching websites for yourself and for others. With ICS Canada, you can train at home and at a pace that's right for you, and you can complete this program in as little as six months!
You’ll learn how to create websites using Adobe® Dreamweaver® software, which is included with your program. You’ll also learn about Internet security, how to set up an Internet business, Internet programming, and how to get your web pages onto web servers.¹
Program Goal and Outcomes
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Program Goal
To prepare students to gain entry-level employment as a web page designer by learning the aesthetic and technical aspects of creating engaging web sites.
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Program Outcomes
Upon completion of the program, students will be able to:
- Examine the role of technology in business and society, including trends and their implications for the future
- Identify current uses for the Internet, including web searches, conducting research, and how to use email
- Describe how to navigate and troubleshoot Windows, including how to create shortcuts, customize your computer, and manage system settings and tools
- List basic editorial guidelines and procedures and recognize how they are applied to a create a well-written document
- Describe the factors that must be considered before a document can be laid out in a page layout program, and recognize the elements of a well-designed web page
- Identify a variety of typefaces and recognize how to select typefaces for your document
- Differentiate between digital art file formats, including raster and vector graphics
- Describe HTML and other web languages (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript), including the processes of using tags, creating hyperlinks, and incorporating graphics
- Design webpages using HTML, integrating graphics and links
- Recognize the qualities of good websites and the processes that go into creating websites
- Create and add pages to websites using Dreamweaver, one of the most popular applications for designing and developing websites
- Describe e-commerce and factors that go into setting up an online business, including Internet security issues and the measures taken to protect e-commerce
- Identify the principles of file transfer protocol, file types, Internet connections, and file-transfer speed
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Instruction Set 1
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Learning Strategies
The advantages of learning at home; types of study materials; types of examinations; accessing and using the features of our website; determining what kind of learner you are; establishing a study schedule; using study tips; preparing for and taking examinations.
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Introduction to the Internet
Getting online; selecting an Internet Service Provider (ISP); Internet tools and services: electronic mail (email), newsgroups, bulletin boards, Internet Relay Chats (IRCs), Telnet, World Wide Web (WWW); shopping safely online.
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Instruction Set 2
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Internet Basics
Where to find browsers online; how to use a browser, including loading URLs, moving to other pages, saving pages and graphics, bookmarking, downloading, using email and search engines, setting preferences, plug-ins.
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Instruction Set 4
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Essential Web Publishing Skills
The fundamentals of good writing; using document stylesheets and other common references.
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Elements of Design
Design elements that make or break the “look” of a web page; selecting an appropriate typeface.
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Computer Graphics
The role of computer graphics in document layout; creating new or manipulating existing artwork, graphics, and photographs; multimedia, virtual reality, and animation.
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Cascading Style Sheets
Defining styles in CSS; how to display WEB elements; CSS basics and functionality; cross-browser techniques.
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Instruction Set 5
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HTML Coding
This lesson teaches how to create web pages with hypertext links, table, frames, and forms.
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Additional Material
Textbook: HTML and XHTML Demystified
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Instruction Set 6
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Using Dreamweaver,® Part 1
Lessons designed to give “hands-on” experience with Dreamweaver®MX, including planning and creating a site, working with navigational structures and hyperlinks, editing text, and displaying links and images.
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Additional Materials
Textbook: Adobe® Dreamweaver® Introductory Concepts and Techniques
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Instruction Set 8
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Internet Security
Fortifying a secure web site; firewalls; secure forms; encryption; user profiles.
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E-Commerce
Planning an online business; legal concerns; determining costs; storefront set-up; processing credit cards.
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Introduction to Internet Programming
Overview of current programming languages and strategies, including CGI, DHTML, XML, Java,™ and more.
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Uploading Web Pages
Uploading a web site to a local or remote server; features of RJ-45, T-1, and coaxial connections; quantifying upload times for single and multiple page sites.
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Graded Project: Security and E-Commerce Project
Applying knowledge about securing and administering e-commerce web sites.
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Computer Specifications
As you know this is an online academic program. This means you will need high-speed internet access to begin your program. In addition, you will need access to a Microsoft® Windows® based computer running Windows 7® or later, Microsoft® Office 365, and an email account to participate in and complete your program.
Sample Lesson
To view a Web Page Designer sample lesson, click here.
Web Page Designer Design Course Details
In the ICS Canada Web Page Designer online program, you’ll cover topics such as:
- Essential web publishing skills
- Elements of design
- HTML fundamentals
- Adobe® Dreamweaver® software
- Security and e-commerce