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Become a Web Designer

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Overview

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Today's web designer balances clear, concise design skills alongside a strong foundational background in the technology of the web. Our tutorials cover the skills you need to design rich, engaging websites and applications that look beautiful on both desktop and mobile devices.
  • Learn the fundamentals of HTML and CSS based web design.
  • Practice using industry standard, modern tools to design websites and applications.
  • Create designs that adapt to fit a wide variety of devices and screen sizes.

Syllabus

  • Course 1: Introduction to Web Design and Development
    • New to web design? Find out if it's right for you. Learn how to get started in web design, how to choose the right tools, and what you should learn next.
  • Course 2: Design Aesthetics for the Web
    • Take your web design skills to next level. Learn how to incorporate principles of design such as contrast, unity, and balance in specific ways that improve your websites.
  • Course 3: User Experience for Web Design
    • Learn how to apply simple UX design principles to your site to make it behave in the way that users want and expect.
  • Course 4: Mapping the Modern Web Design Process
    • Get a 10,000-foot overview of today's web design process, from discovery to content creation, development, and launch.
  • Course 5: HTML Essential Training
    • Learn how to write HTML, the programming language that powers the web.
  • Course 6: CSS Essential Training
    • Explore the concepts that form the foundation of CSS. Learn how to select content, style text, manage layouts, and more as you work on a real-world project.
  • Course 7: Illustrator for Web Design
    • Use Illustrator to create high-quality web content and assets. Discover how to set up a project design, responsively create wireframes and moodboards, export assets, and more.
  • Course 8: Photoshop for Web Design
    • Learn how to use Photoshop to create UI elements, web graphics, wireframes, and functional mockups that transition smoothly to production.
  • Course 9: Learning Responsive Web Design in the Browser
    • Want to design in the browser? Learn how to use the browser's flexible canvas and a combination of HTML and CSS to build more responsive, interactive websites and WordPress themes.
  • Course 10: Responsive Images
    • Responsive images are the next evolution in web design. Learn how to implement them today, with real-life best practice scenarios for implementing responsive images in your sites.
  • Course 11: Responsive Typography Techniques
    • Learn how to create typography that's beautiful, functional, and easily scalable across tablets, phones, and computers of all types and sizes.

Taught by

James Williamson, Sue Jenkins, Chris Nodder, Morten Rand-Hendriksen, Jen Simmons, Christina Truong, Emily Kay, Emily Kay, Morten Rand-Hendriksen, Morten Rand-Hendriksen and Val Head

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