This course introduces students to web design and development using HTML 5, the UTF-8 character set, and the basics of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Students will hand code web pages and style them with CSS. Students will analyze commercial websites in order to gain insight into website design and story-boarding of their own pages. In addition to web design learners will also explore web publishing, web marketing, website maintenance (Internet and intranet) along with other web technologies. This is a distance education web design course offered entirely online. Students must have access to the Internet, a personal e-mail account, and a PC Pentium/Dual Core or Macintosh PPC/Intel with 1gb or more of RAM. Also required is an FTP Client for PC or Macintosh. Links to available FTP software will be provided from within the course documentation. Prerequisite: Computer keyboard experience; familiarity with the World Wide Web; ability to download, install, and maintain the necessary software; ability to use e-mail (including attachments).

This course, an extension of MDIA 1205 (Web Design Technologies 1), introduces you to advanced website design techniques. These techniques involve HTML5 functions for creating interactive online forms using input elements and related attributes. You will be provided with server-side script for form processing. This course introduces you to organic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and how search engines index, return, and rank results. Web analytics and sitemaps are also discussed. Activities include keyword research, choosing appropriate keywords, and preparing a web page optimized with the techniques covered. In depth coverage of CSS (including CSS3) concepts and routines are detailed, including form action types, accessibility, required fields and styling forms, semantic naming of CSS elements, contextual selectors, grouping selectors, pseudo-classes and elements the float property and element positioning. You will create a web page layout with a CSS styled navigation menu, general links as well CSS styled images, data tables, and print style sheets for your page. Prerequisites: MDIA 1205

This course is a continuation of the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) concepts learned in the prerequisite courses and begins with a review of the basic concepts and benefits of using CSS and then moves into more complex topics. You will design three different page layouts using element positioning, use CSS styled images, build data tables, and create print style sheets for your pages. Page designs will include vertical, horizontal, and multi-level CSS menus that include CSS3 features. Practical CSS techniques, such as best practices, code organization, commenting, shorthand, and accessibility, will be explored. Prerequisites: MDIA 1205 and MDIA 2205 or equivalent.

This course introduces you to the Photoshop interface and tools to create or edit graphics and images for use on the web. You will apply colour theory and management knowledge using different colour modes and bit depth. Topics include painting and editing tools, cropping, rotating, creating selections, saving selections in channels, layers, typography, paths, masking, colour correction with curves and levels, and using filters. Photoshop tools will be used in creating graphical web page elements, navigation buttons, animations, and designing and aligning web page components. You will format image files and optimize images for the web, design an email newsletter, use the slice tool, and export sliced images to HTML format. Prerequisites: MDIA 1205 and MDIA 2205 or equivalent.

This course concentrates on using and modifying commercial and/or freeware JavaScript routines to enhance the content of Web pages. To fully explore how JavaScript scripts work and how they may be modified, students will be asked to create JavaScript routines using manual coding. Prerequisites: MDIA 1205 and MDIA 2205 or equivalent.

In this course students use the WordPress dashboard to install and customize existing WordPress themes, add and activate plug-ins, and modify widgets to quickly and efficiently develop template driven websites. Students will convert HTML websites into WordPress templates and integrate WordPress with custom websites as a Content Management System. Students will install WordPress on a local host and migrate content between local and hosted servers; and look behind the scenes of a functioning website to examine concepts such as cPanel, database creation, and phpMyAdmin to set up and manage their own hosted WordPress website. The course will be delivered through a series of video notes. Prerequisites: MDIA 1205 and MDIA 2205 or equivalent.

Students use the Premiere Pro interface to create multi-layered movies by syncing audio, video, and imagery seamlessly to produce a video. The course covers adding styled titles, applying filters and transitions, and colour correcting the entire video to ensure a professional product from start to finish. The course explains how to use Premiere Pro's workflow and integrate with Adobe Photoshop, Audition, and After Effects to edit audio, imagery, and add complex effects that update in real time. Students will explore the best options for exporting video content to mount on a website, or through video sharing sites such as Vimeo, Youtube, and Vine. The course will be delivered through a series of video notes. Prerequisites: MDIA 1205 and MDIA 2205 or equivalent.

This course uses Bootstrap as a powerful responsive framework to manually code dynamic mobile websites. Students will combine Bootstrap's mobile assets with HTML and CSS to develop custom mobile websites with content that resizes, repositions, collapses, and hides for optimal delivery on any device. Students will implement Bootstrap's responsive plugins, including Carousel Galleries, Accordions, Modals, and Popovers to increase site usability and interactivity, and create dynamic animated elements with Bootstrap's integrated CSS animations. To ensure optimized web delivery, this course explores custom Bootstrap exports, which minimize Bootstrap's file size and increase site performance. The course will be delivered through a series of video notes. Prerequisites: MDIA 1205 and MDIA 2205 or equivalent.

This course is the culmination of the Associate Certificate program. As a major task in this course, learners will be required to locate a person or organization desiring a website and design and develop a pro bono (i.e., free) website for them. Other related tasks will include storyboarding the site, costing and contracting issues, and designing the client site (including creating a domain name for the client, mounting the site using a commercial ISP, and registering the site with search services). Other topics in the course include creating a business plan (including a strategic marketing plan), setting up a company in British Columbia, and site maintenance and related topics. Prerequisites: All other courses in Associate Certificate program must be completed before the Project: http://www.bcit.ca/study/programs/6420acert#courses