CIW Professional Site Designer

Course Details

The CIW Site Designer course is a natural progression from the CIW Foundations course. 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.

The CIW Site Designer course Assignments and exam will validate implementing and maintaining hypertext based websites using authoring and scripting languages, creation of content, digital media tools, principles in designing and management tools.

Please note: You need to pass your CIW foundations 1D0-510 exam before you can take any CIW Professional exams.

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

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

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 are also 34 labs so you can practice hands-on skills step by step.

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