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Welcome to Web Design
This course is an expansion of graphic design concepts merging traditional page design, typography, and digital imagery into the concepts and practices of web design. This studio course will cover the preparation of digital images, compositional dynamics, and sequencing of images into a complete working web design. Students will work with current graphic and digital imaging software and web authoring software.
- Demonstrate how to use effective visual design elements and principles in a complete working web site.
- Understand and use the steps of the production process for client-based web-site design.
- Utilize graphic design hardware to create a web site.
- Demonstrate how visual hierarchy works to create flow throughout a web site from a home page to subpages.
- Demonstrate how to test and optimization a web site before implementing.
- Demonstrate awareness of advanced design issue pertaining to web graphic design.
- Demonstrate knowledge of Web site design using current graphic and digital imaging software and web authoring software.
First, a little housekeeping...
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NIACC IST Professionalism Statement
You must read, sign, and return the NIACCIST Professionalism Form in each class in the IT department. This forms describes the rules and expectations for behavior and computer usage.
- Pretest
This just takes a minute. It is designed to see where you are starting from so that, at the end of the term, we can determine how far you have come and how well we did.