PrintWeb Design & Development Course Descriptions
Core Courses
294-005 Animation for the Web
Create powerful web based animations using Adobe Flash CS6. Combine vector graphics, streaming media and timeline animation to produce dynamic and compelling digital content. Gain the technical skills necessary to create and combine a variety of media types, including text, digital images, timeline animations, sound, and video. Create a lasting impression with truly interactive content. (3 units)
Prerequisite: 294-004 Building a Website
294-004 Building a Website
Examine internet technology and the process of designing and developing websites. Gain experience in the creation and implementation of site design. Learn current market tools and develop an understanding of the underlying technologies. Focus will be given to the standards compliant web technologies, HTML5 and Cascading Stylesheets (CSS3). This is a prerequisite course for all courses in this program. (3 units)
294-009 Building Interactivity on the Web
Move beyond basic, static, HTML pages by creating interactivity on websites by investigating and manipulating JavaScript code, and integrating a JavaScript Library (jQuery). Independently investigate popular CMS applications and create and manipulate a website based on one. A good understanding of HTML coding and CSS is required. (3 units)
Prerequisite: 294-004 Building a Website
294-006 Introduction to Web Graphics
Examine the various types of graphics on the web and how they are produced to create a professional grade web site. Begin with a thorough overview of the main Adobe Photoshop tools and progress to challenge your creative skills, by designing web elements such as headers, navigation bars, backgrounds, icons and web site prototypes. (3 units)
Prerequisite: 294-004 Building a Website
Elective Courses
294-012 Advanced Photoshop & Design
Study advanced topics in Photoshop and image editing as well as page layout using In Design. Gain hands-on experience and delve deeper into the power of the industry’s most powerful image manipulation software.(3 units)
Prerequisite: 294-006 Introduction to Web Graphics
294-013 Building Database Driven Websites
Build dynamic and interactive web applications using a database. The course is for people who do not come from a programming background, and focuses on PHP Hypertext Preprocessor and the MySQL database. (3 units)
Prerequisite: Building Interactivity on the Web
294-016 Final Project (Independent Study)
Use your skills to assist real‐world clients in constructing a website or a web‐based solution to satisfy the client’s business needs in this self‐directed course. Design a project which results in a free website or web‐related solution for a company.
Prerequisite: All 4 core courses
294-014 Web Entrepreneurship
Through a series of lectures, case studies and practical working exercises this course will explore sound guidelines for setting up and maintaining a web design business. Topics include: Starting up a web-design and development business, developing goals, defining a market, project quality, costs and business budgets, funding, writing proposals, marketing your new business and community resources. Develop the skills necessary to submit a final draft business plan and sample project package.(3 units)
294-003 Web Writing & Visual Web Design
Explore two important aspects of web design that are often overlooked – how to write for the web and why websites look the way they do. The visual web design component will focus on art and colour theory, website prototyping, and user interface design. The web writing component will examine the tools used to create web content, methods for standardizing site development, defining structure and content composition. You will be using web design tools such Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver at an introductory level throughout the course. (3 units)
Prerequisite: Building a Website
294-019 XML
Learn how XML works and how it is being used to revolutionize information sharing. Whether you are new to the field of markup languages and XML, or have worked with it before, this course serves as an exciting introduction into the power of XML, and its impact on your everyday computing.(3 units)
Prerequisite: Building a Website