Diploma in Web Design
View Spring 2012 timetable here (Wednesday) The internet is continuing to expand in commercial, academic and social circles as a means of communicating, advertising, publishing and distributing information. Companies now also require in house personnel to continually update and improve their websites. The Diploma in Web Design will give students a far deeper understanding of the web and learning to build their own websites using HTML will give students far better control over the development of corporate and/or their own websites. Programme Aims and Objectives Using current design software, this course is aimed at people with good computer skills who may have little or no knowledge of the web and who wish to develop, design and launch a website. Windows skills are assumed but no previous web skills are required. The programme enables student to use Adobe Dreamweaver and provides a basic
understanding of HTML.
On completion of this course, students will have acquired the skills to:
- Search for, evaluate, and use information from the Internet
- Read and edit HTML
- Use style sheets to maintain a consistent look to web pages
- Integrate images into their web pages
- Plan and design a complete website including content, page layouts, site map, user-friendly navigation and other features
- Demonstrate good web design techniques
- Discuss search engine marketing
- Use other similar graphics editing software to create/edit and optimise graphics for the web
- Create special effects with their own graphic images
- Optimise images for export to the web and between tools
- Understand different web graphic formats and their limitations.
Programme Structure The programme is delivered through a tutor led classes, concentrating on labs and hands on skills. The tools use to create the websites are:
- Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
- Adobe Photoshop CS4
Programme Content - Writing HTML
- Structure, layout and design of each web page
- Links (onsite links, offsite links, links within a page, image links, image maps)
- Tables, borders and backgrounds
- CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
- Forms including form handlers
- FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
- SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
- Using JavaScript to create visual effects on the site
Assessment To be awarded the Diploma in Web Design, students will be required to complete a practical website project at the end of the course (100%).
Career Progression Opportunities This programme will benefit those involved in the maintenance of a corporate website or those interested in creating their own site such a small business owners and entrepreneurs.
Student Profile Typically, participants on this programme have included graphic designers wishing to profile their work or build sites for their clients and also people involved in the sales or marketing function of an organisation for which their website is an important function. IT personnel also benefit from the programme as a way of increasing their skillset in an IT environment. It is also of interest those involved in creating local and community website resources.
Further Study Options On successful completion of the Diploma in Web Design, students interested in furthering their knowledge in the area may wish to progress onto the Advanced Diploma in Web Development at DBS which focuses on web development techniques such as building a content management system (CMS) for a database driven website.
“I thoroughly enjoyed the diploma in web design. The lecturer has many years experience in building websites which made the course even more interesting. I felt the course gave me the knowledge and confidence to pursue a career in web design. I would recommend the course to anyone interested in this area.”
Garvan O’Brien
Diploma in Web Design
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