Front-End Web Designer Learning Path

A Web designer is responsible for coding all the various aspects of a website. They may need to code in WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. Web designers are responsible for creating all the building blocks that go into websites. They are responsible for the everyday management of the websites and making sure that everything runs smoothly. They are also responsible for deciding things such as, images, buttons, fonts, text size, and locations of these various pieces on the page.

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Web Design Courses

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Wordpress: Beginner WordPress: Beginner

Course Duration: 2 Days
This course will provide you with sufficient knowledge to create a simple blog and website using WordPress. We'll take you through the initial concepts before explaining how to set up an account on wordpress.com and create a new site from scratch. Once your site has been setup, we'll take you through the many WordPress settings and options before creating pages and posts, drafting and publishing, uploading images and formatting your content with some simple HTML and CSS. We'll then explain how to select and activate a theme, adjust any available options, set menu items and ensure the site is optimised for search engine results.

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Design Technique Courses

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Photoshop: Beginner Photoshop: Beginner

Course Duration: 2 Days

  • Remove red eye, blemishes, scratches, etc. using various retouching techniques
  • Improve image colours and adjust contrast and brightness
  • Create simple compositions by blending images together
  • Add text and modify type settings in your designs
  • Output artwork for web, print or video
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Photoshop: Intermediate Photoshop: Intermediate

Course Duration: 3 Days

  • Use advanced retouching and manipulation techniques
  • Improve the tonality and contrast of an image using curves and levels
  • Work with masks and blending effects to create sophisticated compositions
  • Use colour profiles to create a consistent and reliable colour workflow
  • Prepare artwork for print, web and video
  • Take the Adobe Certified Associate Exam and gainACA status
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Photoshop: Advanced Bespoke Photoshop: Advanced Bespoke
  • Make use of the Camera RAW plugin to handle RAW and HDR images
  • Create and combine 3D objects from Photoshop layers
  • Import and paint 3D objects made in other applications
  • Animate layers and edit video layers in Photoshop
  • Undertake studio and advanced techniques
  • Enhance your workflow with advanced shortcuts batch processes and actions
  • and more
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Photoshop: Zero to HERO Photoshop: Zero to HERO

Course Duration: 5 Days

  • Use advanced retouching and manipulation techniques
  • Improve the tonality and contrast of an image using curves and levels
  • Work with masks and blending effects to create sophisticated compositions
  • Use colour profiles to create a consistent and reliable colour workflow
  • Prepare artwork for print, web and video
  • Take the Adobe Certified Associate Exam and gain ACA status
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Photoshop: Ultimate Mastery Photoshop: Ultimate Mastery
  • This course covers the curriculum for our Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced courses
    Prepare for your Adobe ACA Exam & Get Your Certification.
  • You can now take your certification exam online from Academy Class
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Illustrator: Beginner Illustrator: Beginner

Course Duration: 2 Days
Setting up Illustrator projects

  • Identify project requirements
  • Establish target audience and needs
  • Define media format and publishing requirements

User interface

  • Identify user interface elements
  • Create and select Workspaces
  • Navigate and zoom documents
  • And more
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Illustrator: Intermediate Illustrator: Intermediate

Course Duration: 3 Days

By the end of this course, you will be able to

  • Further, adjust Bezier curves by creating Compound paths
  • Create Custom Brushes and various Graphic Style
  • Work with Transparency and other raster effects like drop shadows
  • Accurately adjust type in an artwork
  • Prepare documents for composite and commercial printing
  • Enhance the workflow
  • Integration of Illustrator with the rest of Creative Suite
  • You will also be prepared for and take the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) exam
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Illustrator: Advanced Illustrator: Advanced

By the end of this course, you will be able to

  • Optimise artwork for print and web
  • Create and customise graphs
  • Work with blends to create stunning effects
  • Create 3D artwork using Illustrators 3D engine!
  • Improve workflow within Adobe applications
  • and more
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Illustrator: Zero to HERO Illustrator: Zero to HERO

Course Duration: 5 Days
By the end of this course, you will be able to

  • Draw and understand Bezier curves
  • The root of drawing in Illustrator
  • Create a logo using simple shapes
  • Accurately place and measure objects in the Illustration window
  • Trace and colour your hand drawn artwork with Live Trace
  • Live Paint and Live Colour
  • Save illustrations for both print and web purposes
  • Further adjust Bezier curves by creating Compound paths
  • Create Custom Brushes and various Graphic Styles
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Illustrator: Ultimate Mastery Illustrator: Ultimate Mastery

This course contains the full curriculum of

  • Illustrator: Beginner
  • Illustrator: Intermediate
  • Illustrator: Advanced
  • Adobe Illustrator Certification Exam
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Illustrator: Designing Infographics Illustrator: Designing Infographics
  • Introduction to the importance of Infographics
  • An overview of the history of Infographics, what they are and how they should be used
  • Examples of good and bad Infographics
  • A look at the many types of elements to include in an Infographic and when to use them (charts, timelines, graphs, bubble graphs, pictographs etc.)
  • Do I need an infographic?
  • Analyzing your data
  • Finding and telling the story
  • The 5W's and how they work in an infographic
  • The design process
  • Setting up your wireframe
  • Using psychology in your design
  • Creating icons or sourcing ready-made graphics
  • Design tips and tricks using Adobe Illustrator
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Creative Cloud for Design: Zero To HERO Creative Cloud for Design: Zero To HERO

Corse Duration: 6 Days

This course covers the full curriculum of

  • Photoshop: Beginner
  • InDesign: Beginner
  • Illustrator: Beginner
  • Edit & retouch photos
  • Prepare & publish documents for screen or print
  • Create Illustrations
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Creative Cloud for Production Creative Cloud for Production

Course Duration: 5 Days
Maximise your productivity with Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium software, the total post-production solution available for both Mac and Windows. Tighter-than-ever integration between Adobe's all-new video, audio and design tools. Learn the basics and much more of After Effects and Premiere Pro all just 5 days.

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UX / UI Design: Zero to HERO UX / UI Design: Zero to HERO

By the end of this course, you will be able to

  • Build and grow strategic partnerships for your business
  • Prepare UX portfolio with properly framed documentation
  • A clear understanding of step by step product building processes
  • In-depth knowledge of all UX roles and hence understanding where you fit the best in UX field and the responsibility of the UX lead
  • Choose an effective language to use in challenging conversations
  • Demonstrate your objectively proven skills in user experience teams and agencies – Become a successful and competitive specialist in fast-growing UX market
  • Gain the skills of the highly qualified researcher or tester
  • Increases business conversions and market shares with a good UX
  • Achieve professional competence to solve different kinds of issues
  • Confidently manage UX processes by proven, user-centred design framework based on the usability standard ISO 9241-210
  • Be prepared for and take the BCS UX Certified exam
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Development Courses

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HTML5/CSS3: Beginner HTML5/CSS3: Beginner

Course Duration: 2 Days
This course covers:

  1. Introduction to HTML
  2. Basic Page Structure
  3. Formatting Page Content
  4. Structuring Content
  5. Creating Links, Lists
  6. Working with images
  7. Tables in HTML5
  8. Controlling Styling
  9. Basic Scripting
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HTML5/CSS3: Intermediate HTML5/CSS3: Intermediate

You will learn basic JavaScript coding, and use HTML5 APIs (application programming interfaces) to extend the functionality of Web pages with modern features such as geolocation, drag-and-drop, canvas and offline Web applications. In addition, you will learn techniques for code validation and testing, form creation, inline form field validation, and mobile design for browsers and apps, including Responsive Web Design (RWD).

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JavaScript: Beginner JavaScript: Beginner

You will learn how to use JavaScript to communicate with users, modify the Document Object Model (DOM), control program flow, validate forms, animate images, create cookies, change XHTML on the fly, and communicate with databases.

By the end of this course, you will understand and use the most popular applications of JavaScript.

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JavaScript: Intermediate JavaScript: Intermediate

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able transform HTML web pages into interactive, cross-browser web pages with cool cross-browser animations and user intuitive functionality.

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Where to Start

As a web designer, you need to be able to create the design for the website, code it, and sell it to your clients. Most web developers work on a freelance basis so creating a solid portfolio and reputation is important. Start your career by taking web development courses, such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Education

Web design is popular but you will not find many places offering degrees in it. Generally, trade schools rather than traditional universities offer degrees in subjects such as web design. This means you can select the classes you want to take to customise your education to suit your career goals. One of the best educational paths is to attend web design courses, such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. These skills will give you essential skills to design fully functional websites.

Equipment & Software

Excellent software and equipment can make your job as a web designer that much easier. Once you finish your web design course, you will need a good computer and something that can handle the necessary requirements for high-level graphic and video work. You will also need the right pieces of software: this includes such programs as HTML, CSS and JavaScript and including applications such as Illustrator and Photoshop, which are used to add visual impact to web designs.

Portfolios

Nowadays, just about everyone who wants to work on the web, with the web, or through the web, needs a portfolio. Web designers are no exception. Create a variety of different pieces that will appeal to your target audience and create them in a range. You want to show off what you can do with your design skills. The larger and more varied your portfolio is, the better chance you have of bringing in the clients you need to make a successful business; this is especially true if you are freelancing instead of working for a larger corporation.

Get Involved

Networking is essential for web designers; it is how they learn the tips, tricks, short cuts, and latest trends. It is also a great way to find work or find the people who can do the work you need to create the website your client wants. It is also an ideal way to develop people skills. Web design means interacting with people. It might seem like it is a job where you spend hours in front of a computer programming away with little to no interaction with the people who work with the final product. Unfortunately, it requires regular interaction, you need to know what the client wants and then be able to update and maintain the work you have done for them. This means communicating and having a solid set of people skills.

Own It

Web site development is perfect for someone detail oriented, who loves putting pieces together from a variety of sources and smoothing them out so they fit together seamlessly. Start out by knowing the right information; learning the right software applications and tools and you will be on your way to becoming a successful web designer.

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What Others Are Saying

Excellent course - came away with a much broader knowledge and notes for future projects

Peter P Adobe Photoshop

never fails to meet my learning aims and objectives!

Freddie B Illustrator

Chakib was fantastic and made the week an absolutely fantastic experience. He provided exceptional tutorship and his knowledge and experience in the UX field is very evident in the confidence he has when he speaks. Unfortunately the course material to allow us to prepare for the exam at the end of the week was not great. I feel let down that the BCS exam providers do not provide official course material.

Donovan J UX / UI Design

Gediminas has a wealth of knowledge and enabled me to -finally- understand how HTLM and CSS works and interacts. We were introduced not only to the concepts but created our own website, accessed some really interesting resources, discussed and debated some finer points and I would not hesitate to book the course again. I can highly recommend Academy Class and Mr Survila.

Peter P HTML5/CSS3

Excellent trainer, friendly and helpful and went at a pace that was in line with my previous experience.

Aiysha U Javascript

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