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BC Courses: Web site Designer Certificate
 Our
Unique Web Designer Certification Program (WDC) provides
a working knowledge in web design skills to create professional
web sites for small, medium and large businesses in today’s
marketplace. Emphasis will be on the tools (software), design, business
analysis, client interaction and site management techniques needed
to create and maintain world wide web technology.
Our complete certificate program will ensure that for those serious
about making web design their career they will be ready to design
professional web sites. Taken together with our internship program,
the Web Designer Certificate Program will compliment your academic
studies with the work experience employers are looking for. Become
Job Ready !
This part-time or full time course can be completely customized
(dates and times) for you individual needs.
Once completed the (WDC) a person can then apply
to take our Apprenticeship work  experience
Internship Program. This program is one-of-a-kind and
is the only web design internship program currently offered in Victoria.
If you are interested in a career in web design and development,
need hands-on practical experience, and would like to work side-by-side
with a team of proven professionals, then this is the program for
you! This program is an extension of the courses that we currently
offer or it can be provided as an additional learning experience
to enhance your current school or training curriculum. Under our
teams supervision, you will have created actual working web site's
with real domain names AND you get credit as the "webmaster!"
What better way to build up your portfolio and impress future prospective
employers with actual work experience on your resume? Scholarships
are available.
The courses included in the Web Designer Certification Program
(WDC) are:
For a complete course outline click one of the classes below
Students
may also use the classroom any time it is not being used for other
classes. Instructors are always on-site and available for questions
Web Designer Certification Program:
Total Hours = 1131 Hours
COST ... $5,650.00
3 MONTH INTERNSHIP OPTION ... $3,000.00
TOTAL COST OF CERTIFICATE PROGRAM + INTERNSHIP ... $8,650.00
This track can be custom scheduled to fit your personal schedule
on 2 weeks notice. Contact
us about Multiple Student Discounts.
Please call us at 721-9991 or email
us to schedule an interview and see if you are eligible
to enroll in our web designer certificate program.
Click here to view some frequently asked questions.
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Course Descriptions for the Web Design
Certification Course (WDC)
1. Computer Basics – Introduction to Computers
(optional - class can be challenged )
- Windows XP Operating System
- Introduction
- Still using Windows 98 – Learn the differences
- Overview
- File Management
- FTSW - the file and transfer settings wizard
- Backing up your System (your business)
- Defragmenting
- Note Pad
- Word Pad.
- Connecting to the Internet
- Terminology
- Antivirus (protect your business)
(Free software included)
- Firewall's
(Free software included)
- Microsoft Word
- The Mouse
- The Keyboard
- Keyboard Shortcuts (Efficient Computer
Navigation)
For Complete
course descriptions click
here
2. Internet Communications and Internet Basics - How
it all works - 12 Hours
- E-Mail (client side)
- Outlook Express
i. Setting up you email account(s)
ii. Add / modify e-mail accounts on your local computer
iii. Create / modify e-mail accounts on your hosting
server
iv. Making folders
v. Setting Rules for Email
vi. About
vii. Tips and Tricks
viii. Using your e-mail to manage your business
ix. Protecting your computer from e-mail
viruses
x. Configuring your options
- E-Mail (server side)
Hotmail, Yahoo
- FTP files and resolve conflicts when publishing your files
with different FTP clients
- Use the news and discussion groups as a marketing and a
research tool
- CHMOD a cgi script to 755 with your ftp client so that
your forms will work
- Hosting
- What is hosting
- Learn about the different options for hosting websites
- Virtual Hosting
- Understand why ISP caches will effect what different
people will see in different geographical locations
- Browsers – Internet Explorer and Netscape
- Navigate World Wide Web Sites
- Perform Effective Internet Searches
- File Transfers (downloading from the internet)
- Customizing the Browser
- Use the Favorites Folder
- The Google Tool Bar
- The favorites Folder
- Fonts, Colors, Text Size
- Your Browser Cache and History
3. Basic HTML - Introduction to hypertext markup language
- 6 Hours
(the building blocks of web pages)
- Basic tags to create:
- An HTML page
- Text
- Links
- Images
- Tables
- Formatting:
4. Web Design Fundamentals Levels I & II - Hours
18
Introduction to Design and Development of Web Sites
- Overview
- Framework
- Functionality
- How long should a web page be
- When do you use Relative or Absolute Links
- Information chunking
- Continuity
- Should you use frames
- What are the critical elements, which should be on each page?
- When should you use pop-up windows or open a link in a new
window
- Reviewing common web design problems ( Examples )
5.Web Design Fundamentals Levels III & IV - 18 Hours
- ·Business Analysis (clients)
- Identifying the clients needs
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Concept Creation
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Story Boarding
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Intuitive navigation
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Different Browser Considerations
- Internet Explorer
- Netscape
- Opera
- Mozilla
- Testing the web site
- Site Maintenance
- How to effectively maintain a web site
6. Dreamweaver MX Levels I & II – Introduction
to Dreamweaver MX
18 Hours
- Its purpose as a web authoring tool
- Comparison to other web authoring tools (FrontPage)
- Learning our way around the Dreamweaver workspace
- The Design Area
- The document window
- Tool Panels and Tool Bars
- Arranging your workspace
- Creating a local site
- Creating, deleting, renaming an HTML page
- Setting Page Properties
- Inserting and formatting text
- Inserting Images
- Hyperlinks
- Managing files and folders on your local site
- Obtaining the 30 Trial Version of DW MX to work from
home
- Image Maps
- Tables ( basic designs and ideas )
- Page layouts
- Planning a basic web site
- Files, folders, naming conventions, tips and tricks of the
trade)
- Publishing your pages to a Server
Your will get free hosting
while you are a student at northStudio.com Inc.)
- Setting our Preferences
- Working with Code and Design View
- Behaviors
- Pop up windows
- Meta Tags
- Snippets
- Image Rollovers
- Find and Replace
- Working with and isolating elements
- Applying Patches for Dreamweaver (updates)
- The Tag inspector
- Layers
7. Dreamweaver MX Levels III & IV – Advanced
concepts and features
18 Hours
- Templates
- Library Items
- Forms
- Framesets
- Learning how all the major elements flow together to create
a full functioning application for the world wide web
- More Behaviors
- Downloading extensions
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Creating a membership on the Macromedia web site
8. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – Marketing
your Web Site - 6 Hours
- ·Determining your target audience
- Search Engine Technologies
- The 20+ criteria to include in your web site
- Meta tags
- Correct file structure
- Naming conventions
- Key word density and information chunking
- More…
- Key word trackers
- Difference between manual submissions and auto submission software
- How often you should submit your site
- Submitting to Yahoo
9. Macromedia Flash MX Levels I & II– Animating
your Web Site - 18 Hours
- Using Drawing Tools
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Motion and shape tweening
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Basic and complex animation
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Create Button Objects
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Create Movie Clips
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Vector based drawing tools
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Layers, image libraries
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Import/export capabilities
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Sound
-
Publishing techniques
10. PhotoShop 7 + Adobe Image Ready
- Abasic understanding of design issues
- Image modes
- Blending modes
- Calibration
- Saving and snapshots protocol
- Resizing, rotating, flipping and cropping images
- Placing a file
- Making a feathered marquee
- Clone and Pattern Stamp tool
- Pen tool
- Path Selection tool
- Rulers and guides
- Snapping
- Rotating, flipping, free transforming – image and canvas
- Layers palette
- History palette
- Extracting
- Levels and Curves
- Hue/Saturation
- Select>Color Range
- Saving Swatches
- Brush palette
- Making “vector” artwork in Photoshop
- Motion Blur
- Hands on with layer styles and layer masks
- You will be doing a project for a mock client in this class
- Selection Modifiers
- Type Modifiers
- Image Ready: Slices, Save As Settings, and Animated Gifs
Don’t get bogged down with extreme course hours. Class
sizes are no greater than 4 or 5 people which allows for students
to ask questions and receive answers quickly, one-on-one attention,
less distraction and efficient communication between students
and teacher(s). We only accept individuals that wish to excel
in the industry. We are a working studio as well as a Web design
and development school; specialist in certain areas may also
join the class to share their knowledge of real world knowledge.
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The Internship Program (TIP)
Our Internship Program consists of 2 different tracks, each
with two levels.
TRACK I - Web Design Apprenticeship
Level I
Description: In this track you will learn how
a web design studio works and be  exposed
to everything we do on a day-to-day basis including but not limited
to: meeting with customers to receive instructions and assess
needs, customer site assessment, internet market research to identify
customer's product / service and competition, domain name registration
and setting up web site hosting, team meetings to plan and implement
design and IT strategies, graphics creation and editing, web site
design planning and creation, search engine optimization, and
publication to the internet.
Length: This level requires a 3 month commitment.
Pre-requisites: Web site design diploma or applicable certificates,
or currently enrolled in same or a higher level Computer Science
and/or IT degree program with a working knowledge of Dreamweaver,
Photoshop, Illustrator, basic JavaScript and html. northStudio.com
will consider internship applicants who do not have a working
knowledge of these programs provided the applicant is prepared
to simultaneously enroll in evening classes for these courses
during or before the internship period.
Cost: $3000* payable upon admission into the Internship Program.
Level II
Description: At this level, you will continue to improve your
skills and gain additional knowledge by continuing and practicing
what you've learned in Level I. You will receive a more advanced
understanding of how to successfully run a web design business
and gain valuable work experience as well as projects that
you can add to your portfolio.
Length: This level requires an additional 3 month commitment.
When combined with Level I, this provides a full 6 months of
work experience on your resume.
Pre-requisites: Successful completion of Web Design Track, Level
I.
Cost: FREE
Scholarships for the (TIP) Program
 Applications
are accepted on an ongoing basis. We have a limited number of
internship positions available and acceptance is based on several
factors, including but not limited to transcripts, letters of
reference, and proof that all pre-requisites have been met.
At the end of these programs our students will be job ready
for the position in the web development industry that they choose
to pursue. With a working portfolio of client work, and the client,
staff and industry connections, our students will have the tools
to be able to succeed in their career. As northStudio.com is
a busy web studio, we will occasionally have an overflow of work
to contract out. Successful students who have completed one of
our courses are first in line for contract work with northStudio.com
Why choose northStudio.com
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- NEW!!! We're WIRELESS! Students are now able to wander our campus and stay connected on our wireless Internet Connection.
- We use what we teach everyday. All courses are taught by industry
professionals. Our design and programming area are located in the same
building right across from each other. Gain working knowledge and procedures
from professionals that have years of experience.
- 100% customizable course times and dates to fit your schedule
- 17" flat panel monitors
- Intel 1.2GHz systems
- Free hosting for Students and their web site(s)
- Small class sizes (no more than 5 people)
- Instructors on premises all day
- Free parking – all day everyday
- Comfortable environment
- Professional career development and
resume planning
- Our courses are all PST exempt and tax deductible
- Study part time or full time, evenings or daytime and weekends- your
choice
- Make contacts with professionals in the industry – they will
be in the office / school with you
- While you attend northstudio.com you have FREE access to the classroom
computers during not scheduled class hours. So if you want to come in
a couple hours before class and stay hours after class we welcome you
to do so. Instructors and working professionals will always be on the
premises to answer your questions and help you.
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*Fees
for Foreign Students payable in U.S. funds
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for Accommodations while you are in Victoria studying with
northStudio.com? 1/2 price accommodations are available at:
Birds of a Feather B&B*
*Study
in Victoria 1/2 price Option: applies to any room at any time
of year for the duration of only these courses. Price includes
accommodations only; breakfast is not included unless by prior
arrangement. Reservations will only be confirmed with course
registration confirmation. Subject to room availability.
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