Digital Arts Web Design 1

In this class students learn the fundamental toolset for making web pages. First, they study Photoshop. They learn basic digital photography concepts, photo composition, and photo manipulation. Next, they study Dreamweaver where they learn to web page layout technique and how to integrate they photographs they made in Photoshop into a web page. They also learn Cascading Style Sheets, the technology used to control the styling of a web site. Finally, they study Flash. Here they learn basic animation skills and the art of engaging the user into the use of the web page. They learn to make animated banner advertisements for web pages. Finally they combine all their skills to produce their own portfolio web site.

Digital Arts Web Design 2

Students expand their web design skills by going deeper into new technologies. They study HTML5, Javascript, databases, and content management systems including WordPress and Drupal. The make web pages for the iPhone, iPad and Android mobile technologies. They create websites customers can maintain themselves. The learn to manage large scale websites with complex features. When students complete this course, they are well equipped a set of business skills necessary to compete in the twenty-first century.