Web Design Certificate
About the Web Design Certificate
In the digital age, having a well-designed website is crucial for any organization that wants to reach and engage with its audience effectively. The website-building process is more than just writing code; it involves understanding your website's purpose, target audience and message. The courses contain expert video commentary from web design professionals and interactive exercises that allow you to test your knowledge of web design concepts and practice coding.
Online, anytime and anywhere! The courses within this certificate have an open enrolment, which gives you the flexibility to study at your own pace in your own space. Allowing you to create a timetable that works for you!
By the end of the course, you will have a deeper understanding of website design principles and the ability to build your own website.
Program Content
Course Descriptions
Introduction to Web Design
This introductory-level course provides the groundwork for building effective websites optimized in design, structure, usability, and accessibility. You will learn the fundamental principles of visual design and user experience to build webpages that are aesthetically pleasing and intuitive to navigate. The course will guide you through the website design process, from identifying your content strategy and information architecture to choosing a layout and other design elements such as visual hierarchy, whitespace/negative space, colour and typography. During the course, you will also learn how to launch a website by selecting a domain host and website address. The course also introduces the three main website languages: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Crucial to meeting the marketing goals of the organization. This course offers a step-by-step introduction to creating such a strategy, emphasizing key concepts, definitions, and metrics.
Responsive Web Design (RWD)
Review basic principles and foundational techniques for designing viewable websites on all devices. While this is an introductory course, the material does require that the learner has at least a basic understanding of HTML and CSS. After completing the course, students will be able to create custom CSS layouts and use media queries to optimize websites for different screen sizes.
JavaScript of Web Design
This course introduces learners to scripting fundamentals and basic programming concepts while exploring how JavaScript can add functionality to web pages. Through several lab exercises, learners will progress from developing simple JavaScripts to more complex functions. From this base knowledge, they will be introduced to popular JavaScript libraries and other similar tools and frameworks in use today.
HTML for Web Design
This introductory course is designed to provide a fundamental understanding of HyperText Markup Language, commonly abbreviated as HTML. HTML is the standard markup language used to create webpages. Along with CSS and JavaScript, HTML is a cornerstone technology used to create webpages as well as to create user interfaces for mobile and web applications. The course will cover HTML tags for images, links, lists, and tables, as well as how to organize page structures. Learners will gain experience using various HTML elements by developing various HTML documents through several lab assignments.
CSS for Web Design
This course will introduce the basic features of Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS. CSS is a versatile programming language that styles web pages by specifying how HTML and XML documents should appear. CSS makes it possible to control the presentation of elements on a page, including their colour, dimensions, position and behaviour. A series of lab exercises provide students with opportunities to practice the tools and concepts they learn throughout the course.
Web Design Capstone: Seaside Bed and Breakfast
This capstone course for the Web Design Certificate incorporates the skills you have learned about web design principles, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Responsive Web Design. In this course, you will be placed as a web designer and asked to work through various case studies to produce a new and improved website for a client, Seaside Bed and Breakfast.
Completion Requirements
Each of these courses can be taken on their own, or as part of the Web Design Certificate.
To earn a certificate, students must complete the content of each course in its entirety, achieving a test score of at least 70% for each.
Related Careers
A wide range of career paths are available to graduates of this program, including:
Marketing Coordinator
Marketing Administrator
Social Media Assistant
Admission Requirements
There are no prerequisites or online learning experience required.
Additional Requirements
Technology Requirements
In these courses, online learners will require a personal computer (PC) or laptop with a reliable internet connection to access coursework.
Program Cost
Students may take any number of the courses within this certificate as stane alone courses. Individual course prices are as follows:
Introduction to Web Design $119
Responsive Web Design $119
JavaScript for Web Design $119
HTML for Web Design $119
Cascading Style Sheets (CCS) for Web Design $119
Funding for Continuing Education Courses
Students enrolled in continuing education programs may qualify for program-dependent funding opportunities, such as awards, scholarships, government funding and grants.