In the Adobe Illustrator course, students learn how to effectively use many of the tools and techniques available within Adobe Illustrator to create vector graphics for print and for the Web. As the student progresses through the course, they become familiar with the Illustrator interface, and learn to create shapes, lines, and arcs, modify shapes, apply color and gradient fills to shapes, and create type.

• An introductory Windows course (recommended).

Color is probably the most relative medium in art. Each color has a specific property, whether it's the particular wavelength in optical perception, the molecular construction of pigments or an RGB value for a monitor. Though each of those properties may be fixed, the expression and perception of a color may change within different contexts.

Understanding color requires that you understand its systems, interaction - even a bit of physics! This course deals with the abstract language of color. The coourse discuss basic color principles, terminology, and applications, with an emphasis on manipulating color.

• Adobe Photoshop or equivalent experience.

CorelDRAW is an award-winning graphics program for people who want to create professional-looking artwork. This training course is designed to teach the student the fundamental concepts of CorelDRAW to create and publish their own graphics. Students will learn the basic tools and techniques - page layout, drawing basic shapes, and working with lines and nodes. Also covered are more advanced topics - applying special effects, organizing drawings, and basic design principles for the Internet.

• Introduction to Windows course or equivalent working knowledge.

Adobe Dreamweaver is the preferred HTML editor of professional Web designers - and not just because it has a cool name.

Dreamweaver integrates a host of design tools in one easy-to-use application. Without any advanced HTML and CSS knowledge, you can design sophisticated sites, creating advanced layouts by using Cascading Style Sheets, typography, colors, tables, and more.

This course guides you through Adobe's leading-edge Web editor, taking you from absolute beginner to intermediate level.

• Adobe Photoshop or equivalent experience.

If you love the ease and flexibility of designing sites with Dreamweaver and are ready to tackle more sophisticated projects, Dreamweaver II is your ideal next step. Some powerful features lie just below the surface in Dreamweaver, including precision layouts through Cascading Style Sheets, templates and asset management, and even the ability to create interactive JavaScript and Ajax features without wading through reams of code. Each hands-on lesson and exercise combines upper-level Dreamweaver technology with visual Web design know-how.

In this rigorous 6-lesson course, you'll take your existing knowledge of Dreamweaver to the next level, putting your skills a cut above the rest. Roll up your sleeves and get ready for an intensive and fun study of Dreamweaver!

• Adobe Photoshop
• Dreamweaver 1
• Web Graphics using Fireworks or equivalent experience.

Dynamic Web Development with PHP provides students with a broad foundation in Web site development using PHP and MySQL. S tudents learn how to write scripts and queries, build functional forms, and create an online catalogue that displays product information pulled from a database. In addition, students learn the basis for developing online customer accounts, mailing lists, user polls, forums, shopping carts, and more. This course consists of six lessons and a final exam. Each lesson is divided into a lecture and an exercise.

Understanding of hand-coding XHTML and CSS and/or basic site development in Adobe Dreamweaver.

When Web designers think interactivity, they think Adobe Flash. The vector-based tool, which has taken over the Web, can create everything from simple animations to entire sites.

In this 6-lesson course, you'll develop a deep understanding for basic drawing and animating tools in Flash, mastering such critical elements as layers, symbols, and tweens. You'll create an animated logo, a cityscape, a banner ad, a splash screen, a basic Flash site interface, and more.

• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Windows Operating System and Microsoft Word.

Flash Experience Design builds upon the knowledge and skills introduced in Flash Basics. In this project-based course, students learn how to design interactive Flash animations that deliver a message.

Students explore event-driven functionality, movie clips, nonlinear events, preloading, and optimization. The course focuses on the construction of Flash animations that emotionally connect with the user and adhere to usability principles.

• Basic experience in Flash Basics

Typography is what sets designers apart from other artists. In visual communication, typography must be integrated into a total design. In this course, students explore the anatomy of the letterform and learn how to classify typefaces and use them creatively.

• Photoshop Basics
• Illustrator Basics

• The XHTML and CSS Essentials course or equivalent experience in hand coding HTML and CSS;
• experience in publishing files to the Web, and Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks or equivalent digital imaging program.

Designing Web sites is no easy matter. To manage any successful Web project, someone must play the role of information designer. In today's multitasking Web design environment, that person could be you!

In this 3-lesson course, you'll learn systematic techniques for each stage of the Web site design process. You'll learn how user demographics, competitive critiques, feature lists, site maps, and wireframes are used in information design.

Whether you're a Web designer or simply a Web content editor or project manager, you'll discover how to take a site's architecture from concept to reality, gaining insights into client management along the way.

• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Dreamweaver 1 or equivalent experience.

The field of Web design rewards a unique blend of technical skills, creativity, visual communication, information science, and entrepreneurship.

In this introductory class, you'll learn how the Web evolved, cover the technical fundamentals, and learn the design principles that characterize the leading sites. Through exposure to best (and worst) practices on the Web, you'll learn how to intelligently critique a Web site design, both from a functional and an aesthetic standpoint.

No software is required, just a keen interest in the Internet world. It's the perfect introduction to Web design, whether you want to become a Web designer, or you're just intensely curious about what they do!

• Windows Level 1
• Microsoft Word Level 1

To design today's Web sites, you need a complete skillset. It's not enough to simply develop a visual design. Clients expect you to be able to research, plan, build, design, and test a site, using contemporary technologies and design styles.

In this course, you'll learn a systematic professional approach to Web design. You'll use site maps, wireframes, HTML/CSS layouts, comps, color palettes, usability tests, and other tools and concepts to make sure your designs hit the mark.

Students entering this course are expected to have a basic competence in HTML/CSS design, Photoshop or Fireworks, and Dreamweaver. Building upon those skills, students will complete four portfolio projects that challenge their Web design skills and build an understanding of how to manage Web design projects in a professional context.

Projects include: information architecture, competitive analysis, wifeframes, layouts, mood boards, color palettes, usability testing, designing for blogs, and portfolio design.

• Adobe Photoshop
• Web Graphics using Fireworks
• Dreamweaver 1 or equivalent experience.

This simulation will provide students with an opportunity to review and apply the knowledge they have acquired during their studies. During the labs, students will create and design a number of marketing items.

• Microsoft Publisher
• CorelDRAW
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Word Processing,
• Database
• Internetworking courses at a minimum of Level 2.

• Microsoft Publisher
• CorelDRAW
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Word Processing,
• Database
• Internetworking courses at a minimum of Level 2.

Microsoft FrontPage is a program that is used to create Web sites. In this course, students will learn how to work with an existing FrontPage Web site as well as how to set up a Web site using FrontPage.

FrontPage enables the user to create Web pages without having to learn the programming language that is used on the World Wide Web, HTML. Students will learn the advantages of using FrontPage and how easy it is to create Web sites about a company, their interests, or personal information for the Internet.

• Basic Keyboarding
• Windows Level 1
• Microsoft Word Level 1
• Microsoft Word Level 1

Microsoft Publisher is an excellent package for people who want to create professional-looking publications such as brochures, business cards, custom letterheads, Web pages, and a variety of other publication types. This course teaches students how to use Publisher to create a variety of publications quickly and easily using some of Publishers Design Templates.

• Windows Level 1
• Microsoft Word Level 1

Getting started on the Web can be intimidating. A dizzying array of terms and technologies awaits you: blog, YouTube, FTP, Flickr, and more. This 3-lesson course will help you get started on the modern Web, whether you want to launch your own Web site or just learn where to begin in developing a Web site or marketing an online business.

Working with a professional Web designer, you'll explore a wide variety of Web-based terms and technologies, including Web 2.0, social networking, blogging, domain names, and more, picking up concepts you need to know and learning makes today's Web technologies more interactive. You'll explore the technical fundamentals of editing and uploading Web pages and gain an insight into online marketing and search engine optimization.

By the end of the course, you'll have launched a Web site and gained a basic grasp of how to use Web tools to make your content more interactive and reach your site's target audience. This course is recommended for anyone interested in learning how today's Web works - and how it can work for you.

• Windows Level 1
• Microsoft Word Level 1

To design today's Web sites, you need a complete skillset. It's not enough to simply develop a visual design. Clients expect you to be able to research, plan, build, design, and test a site, using contemporary technologies and design styles.

In this course, you'll learn a systematic professional approach to Web design. You'll use site maps, wireframes, HTML/CSS layout s, comps, color palettes, usability tests, and other tools and concepts to make sure your designs hit the mark.

Students entering this course are expected to have a basic competence in HTML/CSS design, Photoshop or Fireworks, and Dreamweaver. Building upon those skills, students will complete four portfolio projects that challenge their Web design skills and build an understanding of how to manage Web design projects in a professional context.

Projects include: information architecture, competitive analysis, wifeframes, layouts, mood boards, color palettes, usability testing, designing for blogs, and portfolio design.

• XHTML/CSS Essentials
• Adobe Photoshop
• Web Graphics using Fireworks
• Dreamweaver 1 or equivalent experience.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. An image can communicate powerful ideas and emotions that simple text can't always explain. Nowhere is this more true than on the Web, where graphics enhance a site's experience, support its content, and create a visual hierarchy. Logical and intuitive interface designs help us to figure out (often subconsciously) how content is organized and what information is important.

This course covers the essentials of making superior Web graphics and interface designs using Adobe Fireworks. We'll explore the technical fundamentals you need to know, including the Fireworks toolset and features, and discuss tips and techniques for the wide range of graphics encountered in a typical Web design project, such as photographs, illustrations, animations, rollover buttons, interactive menus, and advertisements.

In six hands-on lessons and exercises, you'll use Fireworks to create fully functional Web pages and prototypes, timesaving batch processes, attractive and well-optimized photos and illustrations, and animations and interactive navigation features. You'll also explore professional case studies and learn how to use design principles to shape your personal style.

• Windows Level 1
• Microsoft Word Level 1

You're a designer, and you're good at designing. But design skills are one thing, and selling these skills is another story entirely. Suddenly, you'll find that you also have to be a marketer.

This course is a practical guide for designers who want to successfully present their work to potential clients via the Internet. You'll learn how to identify your strengths and weaknesses as a designer, selecting works that best showcase your talents.

Through feedback and critique, you'll be guided through the process of creating your own online portfolio.

• Adobe Photoshop
• Web Graphics using Fireworks
• Dreamweaver 1 or equivalent experience
• Familiarity with uploading pages using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) programs.

This course provides the student with real world experience related to Web site development. As well as providing practice relating to developing Web sites, this course provides an introduction to project management theory and tools that will assist you in planning, implementing and managing a typical Web site development project.

• Windows Level 1
• Microsoft Word Level 1
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• Dreamweaver 1 or equivalent experience
• Flash Basics
• Web Graphics using Fireworks
• XHTML and CSS Essentials or equivalent knowledge

Today's professional-standard Web sites are designed using XHTML in conjunction with CSS. Sound challenging? Fear not, because learning to write code for the Web has never been easier or more fun. In this six-lesson course, you'll learn to create Web sites - using XHTML to mark up the structure of the document, and CSS to dictate how each page element should look.

Course lessons are packed with hands-on examples that help you gain skills and confidence step-by-step. You'll begin by mastering the basics of HTML markup and how to follow XHTML 1.0 specifications. Then you'll learn to translate this structure into visual designs that use CSS for typography and positioning. The course wraps up with a look at forms, dynamic content, and JavaScript-enhanced navigation. All course assignments are accomplished with hand-coding.

This course is designed to provide a foundation in Web standards, the set of "best practices" established by the World Wide Web Consortium, among other organizations that set the standards for Web development. A site that adheres to Web standards makes use of certain designated markup, presentation, and scripting languages (like XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript).

Learning Web standards helps you build sites that are more accessible, usable, and cross-browser compatible, as well as simpler to build and maintain!

• Windows Level 1
• Microsoft Word Level 1