Allchorn Design

This just out. The website design course I’ll be teaching at Hirt & Carter in Durban is nearing a more complete structure. Here is some preliminary marketing speak so you companies and individuals can see what it’s all about and what you’ll leave the course being able to do.

8 Week Comprehensive Web Design Course

The course is comprised of comprehensive training in the aesthetic and structural aspects of website design. Following a day on Mac basics, candidates receive in-depth training in web standards based design, markup and site creation. Starting with a theoretical and practical introduction to the web and semantic markup with HTML, going through page layout and styling using CSS. The course continues through the principles of beautiful web design including designing web graphics, layout, composition, colour, texture, typography, imagery, animation and usability. Students will also be taught to upload and download websites using FTP, the different file formats on the web, the business of domain registration and web hosting, an introduction to web server basics, databases, content management systems and an introduction to the programming languages on the web. Candidates will leave the course with the ability to effectively design and create valid web pages to be published as is or integrated into any modern web content management system. The final project of the course will involve students publishing their work in an online portfolio, hosted on the Hirt & Carter server or their own (www.studentname.com) domain name. The minimum pass mark is 70% and a certificate will be awarded to each student on graduation.

Prerequisites for the course:

• Photoshop skills required: Making / working with selections, Quick masks, Layers, Shadows, Colour correcting, Cropping, Deep etching, Modes, Cloning, Adjustment layers, Resolution + image size adjustments & Saving in the correct formats.
  A 2 week Photoshop course will run prior to the Comprehensive Web Design course if students don’t have this prior knowledge.

If you are interested in the course, please send me an email so we can add you to the list. More details to follow.