CIW Web Foundations and Design
CIW Associate & Web Design Specialist Certification
Course Details
Our CIW Foundations & Web Design Specialist course will teach you how to design and publish websites. The course has been designed by experts to give you ‘real-world’ training so you can master the web.
Successful completion of the CIW Foundations & Web Design Specialist course will open up a whole new avenue of career opportunities. You no longer have to dream about applying for positions such as a site designer and webmaster graphic designer amongst others.
Furthermore, the CIW Web Associate certification satisfies the requirements for progressing onto additional CIW certifications such as the Master CIW Designer, Master CIW website Manager and CIW Certified Instructor.
The Site Designer course is put together in a manner to assist you in fast tracking your career by teaching you the necessary skills required to design and publish websites critical to corporations. The course will provide you with a perfect balance of theory, technology, management and hands-on experience.
The course will teach you about Web browsers, FTP, email, infrastructure networking and how to use Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
*Please note: previous experience of using Microsoft Windows XP operating System is required.
Qualifications
Following completion of the course materials students will be in a position to sit the two exams:
- CIW Foundations resulting in CIW Associate Certificate
- CIW Web Design Specialist resulting in CIW Specialist Certificate
Successful students will be given the CIW Associate Certificate and the CIW Web Design Specialist Certificate and hold well recognised qualifications that are highly regarded in the industry.
With this training you will:
- Prove you've got the kind of advanced, relevant, job-focused skills that companies value.
- Qualify for jobs in IT, marketing, design, advertising, PR or office admin - with salary levels up to £40,000 a year.
- Learn "real life" Web and Internet skills you won't find covered in any other IT training.
- Gain full CIW Associate status, and a prestige qualification that will put you in front with any employer.
Study Plan
During your studies you will cover a vast array of web design aspects including:
- Web Browsing
- Databases and Web Search Engines
- Internet Security
- XHTML Coding
- Hyperlinks
- Introduction to Networking
- Network Security and IT Career Opportunities
- Web Graphics
- Multimedia and the Web
- Ethical and Legal Issues in Web Development
- Web Page Structure — Tables and Framesets
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Site Development with Microsoft Expression Web
- Site Development with Adobe Dreamweaver
- JavaScript and DHTML Fundamentals
- Plug-Ins and Java Applets
- HTTP Servers and Web Applications
- Databases
- Web Site Publishing and Maintenance
Study Details
During your studies you will complete a total of 61 assignments. On completion of each assignment you should send the assignment to your personal tutor for assessment. Completing the assignments provides both you and your tutor with details of your progress and assists the tutor in providing feedback and assistance.
In order to complete the CIW Foundations & Web Design Specialist course you are required to sit the following exams:
- CIW Foundations resulting in CIW Associate Certificate
- CIW Web Design Specialist resulting in CIW Specialist Certificate
We anticipate it will take the average student approximately 430 hours of study to complete the Certificate. See below examples of how this may be broken down:
| Study Period |
Suggested Weekly Hours |
| 6 Months |
19 Hours |
| 12 Months |
9 Hours |
| 24 Months |
5 Hours |
Careers
Successful completion of the course will equip you to use your skills in any internet-enabled environment. It will predominantly give you a full comprehension of all web design aspects.
You will find that CIW Certification will open up a lot of new career avenues for you. Previous CIW students used their training to move to jobs in the following areas:
- Web Developer - £34,000 (IT Jobs Watch, May 2011)
- Web Manager - £42,500 (IT Jobs Watch, May 2011)
- Digital Marketing Manager - £32,500 (IT Jobs Watch, May 2011)
Not only are the job opportunities interesting, they can be very rewarding too with salaries paying up to £42,500* a year and sometimes more.
*Source: IT Jobs Watch
