Hello everyone, I am a total newbie to web design and the following course is offered at a local college, I would like to know if based on the topics covered, do you think it is worth taking it? Will I really be able to design websites for small business based on the topics covered? I will really appreciate the guidance of the experts here. Thank you! Web Designer Certificate Program. Objectives Understand the principles of Web publishing Learn the different elements involved in creating a Web site Study the secrets of successful Web design Learn the fundamental principles of a Web site Plan the structure Design the layout Create the HTML Launch and publish your Web site Enhance your Web site with a variety of other tools, programs and plug-ins Maintain, manage and market your Web site Create a Web ‘presence’ and learn the importance of Search Engine Optimization Certificate: the UM Web Designer certificate is only awarded to students who complete the course and successfully pass the exam. Length of Course: 64 hours spread over eight weeks. Cost of program: $995
There are lot of freelancers who get the bulk share of making and maintaining a website for small business. It is tough to extract the money you are investing before an year (and that too you are able to make good sites and have an aptitude and marketing abilities).
In the Internet you will find bunch of free tutorials, and courses of creating your own website.. I'll never pay so much money for somethig what can i get for free..
I would be very leery of that... the mere presence of the word "certificate" sets off my scammy sense; since there is no governing body or organization for such certificates, it's only worth as much as the reputation of who you're getting it from. ... and with the reputation of most web development study programs, that most likely means it's worth about as much as a sheet of bog roll. That their order of development puts dicking around with the design BEFORE you make the HTML IMHO means it's most likely idiotic halfwit bull made by people not qualified to be teaching a blasted thing. That it puts SEO after HTML further calls the quality of the program into question. Generally speaking any college program in IT is worthless crap; we're talking a field where 3 years is obsolete, 5 years is the scrapheap -- at which point what use is your typical 4 year commitment? They tend to lag a decade or more behind current practices, so pretty much it's little more than throwing money away for nothing of actual value. You'd probably be better served by a beginner book like Ian Lloyd's "HTML and CSS the Right Way" -- just be sure to get second edition since the third edition craps all over itself by adding the HTML 5 asshattery.
I think after reading Deathshadow's latest reply I will cross off these forums, it's getting old thinking that one person is correct and scores of other people are wrong. Sure there are bad coding practices out there, but you can have bad code and practices with any version of HTML and like or not HTML5 is coming no matter how much deathshadow detests it. My recommendation is learn HTML5 or follow Deathshadow's advice an because a dinosaur in the web design & development world. I find it ironic he calls college IT courses obsolete because the are behind the times, but promotes learning older HTML coding. Go Figure.
Wow, disagree with one person and give up... Way to go! Absolutely correct, though HTML 4 STRICT if you actually follow it does limit the options to do so -- though sure you can still crap out tables for layout, invalid heading orders, and non-semantic markup in any document. I just don't see why they feel the need to reintroduce redundancies that the previous version was ENTIRELY about getting rid of -- and add allegedly structural tags that are redundant to existing tags. I laugh when people call HTML 5 "modern" -- it reeks of the WORST of 1997 style practices -- so it's a decade and a half out of date; the markup most "educators" seem to vomit up mirrors that too. It all seems crafted to undo the progress of the past fifteen years, and carefully crafted to make all the things we've been told to stop doing all that time legitimate practice. The only target audience amongst existing developers for HTML5 that makes any sense is all the people who never pulled their heads out of 1997's backside and until very recently vomited up HTML 3.2 and slapped 4 tranny on it. It certainly has nothing to do with writing cleaner, simpler, semantic code; nor is it meant for anyone who actually bothered embracing 4 STRICT, semantic markup, separation of presentation from content, graceful degradation, or the dozen other improvements of the past decade and a half! The laugh being CSS3 and HTML5 are in conflict in that regard, as are the new scripting features; thankfully there's NOTHING preventing you from using those in 4 STRICT... OF course that anyone is dumb enough to try and deploy a specification still in DRAFT is even more mind-boggling, as if everyone has magically forgotten the lessons of IE5. Apparently people don't know what DRAFT means... of course given how people are also abusing the term "BETA" (usually slapping it on what should be Alpha and then encouraging it's use like it was a final)... ... and remember, just because everyone is doing something or it's popular, well, that doesn't make it good. See fast food, Justin Beiber, and religious fundamentalism.