Certified Internet Web (CIW) Site Designer

CIW Professional Site Designer

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Course Details

The CIW Site Designer course is a natural progression from the CIW Foundations courses. This course will enhance your current knowledge and provide you with the experience and skills required for web publishing roles.

Furthermore, the CIW Site Designer 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.

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Qualifications

A pre-requisite to completing the CIW Professional Site Designer Certification is the CIW Foundations v5 Certification. This can be achieved by studying the CIW Foundations course and the associated study modules (Internet Business Foundations, Site Development Foundations and Network Technology Foundations).

On completion of the CIW Site Designer course, you will be eligible to sit the CIW v5 Site Designer exam (1D0-520). The exam will test the following aspects of internet skills:

Domain 1: Site Development Essentials

1.1  Identify and manage elements of the Web site development process.

1.2  Meet customer expectations with Web site project and design.

1.3  Identify ethical and legal issues relevant to Web development and design.

Domain 2: Web Design Elements

2.1  Use Web design principles to evaluate and develop a site's aesthetic qualities and its ability to enhance viewer experience.

2.2  Use Web design principles to enable navigation, usability and accessibility.

Domain 3: Basic Web Technologies

3.1  Use basic HTML and XHTML (X/HTML) to develop a series of Web pages.

3.2  Use X/HTML and extended technologies to enhance Web page structure, format and usability.

3.3  Create image files, and use images in X/HTML pages and site design.

3.4  Create Web sites using GUI site development applications.

3.5  Publish and maintain a production Web site.

Domain 4: Advanced Web Technologies

4.1  Use multimedia and plug-in technologies to enhance a Web site.

4.2  Use client-side and server-side programming to enhance Web site functionality.

4.3  Connect Web pages to a database



Study Plan
  • Web project management fundamentals
  • Multimedia and the Web
  • Ethical and legal issues in web development
  • Cascading style sheets (CSS)
  • Introduction to site development with Microsoft Expression Web
  • Introduction to site development with Adobe Dreamweaver
  • Multimedia with Flash – ActionScript, Masks & Practical Uses
  • Plug-Ins and Java Applets
  • Databases
  • Web site publishing and maintenance


Assignments

To enable you to hone your skills and assure yourself of the skills being learnt, there are 34 case studies for students to participate in which will present you with real life scenarios that you could encounter in your working life. Along with the case studies, there is also 34 labs so you can practice hands-on skills step by step.



Study Details

The course is designed in a way that enables you to build on the knowledge gained in the previous sections. On finishing the course you should be able to:

  • Manage elements of the website development process
  • Use web design principles to evaluate and develop a site's aesthetic qualities
  • Use HTML and XHTML to develop web pages
  • Use HTML, XHTML and extended technologies to enhance web page structure, format and usability
  • Publish and maintain a production website
  • Enhance a website using multimedia and plug-in technologies
  • Enhance website functionality using client-side and server-side programming
  • Connect web pages to a database

The duration of the course should amount to approximately 295 hours of study time.

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:

  • CIW Site Designer
  • Web author
  • Marketing and Communications Professional
  • PR professional
  • Webmaster Graphic designer
  • Desktop Publisher
  • Technical Writer

Not only are the job opportunities interesting, they can be very rewarding too with salaries paying up to £40,000* a year and sometimes more

*Source: IT Jobs Watch - 2008

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