- Why Web Design
- Course Overview
- Course Content
- Career Opportunities
- Why IBAT College?
- Testimonials
- Lecturer Profile
- How to Apply
- Experience Virtual Learning
Why Web Design
As the world moves online, the ability to design, build and update websites is becoming increasingly important. Gaining a professional certification can be your first step to a creative and rewarding career in the fast-growing area of web design and development. This ten-week course takes you from the basics of working with HTML5 and CSS3 files to building a personal portfolio website to showcase your skills to prospective employers and clients.
As organisations of every type and size move online or operate online-only, the ability to design, build and update websites is becoming increasingly important.
Individuals who have earned a professional web design certification, supported by an online portfolio of professional-quality work, will stand out in the employment and freelance market.
The IBAT College Diploma in Web Design is ideal for you if you:
- Are you looking for a new and rewarding career in the fast-growing area of web design and development.
- Need to create a quality commercial website for an existing or start-up enterprise, without engaging expensive external agencies.
- Have been tasked with maintaining and improving your organisation’s website and online presence.
- Want the skills and confidence to work with HTML5 and CSS3, the twin foundations on which modern websites are built.
- Want to know where to find and how to use the wide range of free, online resources relied on every day by web designers: royalty-free photography, illustrations, icons, videos and fonts, and tools for choosing colour palettes, measuring website performance, and tracking visitor engagement and interaction.
- Wish to create a personal portfolio website to showcase your web design skills and projects to prospective employers and clients.
Web Design Course Overview
The IBAT College Diploma in Web Design is a ten-week learning journey that takes you from the basics of working with HTML5 and CSS3 files to building a personal portfolio website.
You will gain a solid, practical foundation in modern web design, plus the confidence to explore further your particular area of interest - whether it be online animation, video and audio, UI/UX interface design, front-end development, or digital marketing.
Every weekly exercise and project you complete builds towards a complete, professional-quality portfolio website that demonstrates your growth as a web designer and showcases your expertise to prospective employers and clients.
If you are a complete beginner, this course will quickly get you up and running and creating your first web pages. If you already have some web design experience, this is your opportunity to deepen your understanding, extend your skills - and validate your expertise with a recognised professional qualification.
Start your journey to becoming a web designer today.
What is a Professional Diploma?
An IBAT Professional Diploma is a focused, short duration practical course that consolidates, upskills and/or reskills learners in a professional area. They are stand-alone qualifications that do not lead to an award on the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ).
Course Content
On completion of the Diploma in Web Design Course graduates will be able to:
- Use HTML5 and CSS3 to design visually attractive, multi-column web pages with fonts, images, illustrations, colour gradients, animation effects.
- Ensure your web pages display responsively on user devices of every type and size - mobiles, tablets, desktops and laptops.
- Create multi-page websites with desktop/laptop and mobile navigation menus.
- Deploy websites from your computer to online web hosting services, and track user visits and interaction.
- Creating your free website hosting account on GitHub.
- Installing the free Microsoft Visual Studio Code software.
- Uploading files from your computer to your new website.
- Understanding the basic structure of an HTML file.
- Adding HTML tags to your web page.
- Understanding the basic structure of a CSS stylesheet.
- Linking a stylesheet to a web page.
- Recognising the CSS properties most commonly used by web designers to lay out and style web pages.
- Creating a home page for your website with hyperlinks to your sample web pages.
- Understanding the RGB and hex colour systems.
- Applying colours to text, backgrounds, and borders.
- Discovering online sources of royalty-free images.
- Adding images to your web pages.
- Styling images with drop shadow and border effects.
- Linking your web pages to Google Fonts, a free online library of 900-plus fonts.
- Choosing appropriate font styles and weighs for your web page content.
- Understanding the 'box model' concept in web design.
- Creating visually attractive panels of content in a web page.
- Structuring web page content into vertical blocks with alternating text and background styles.
- Adding media queries to resize web page content according to the user's device - mobile, tablet, desktop or laptop.
- Using the fluid typographic equation to scale font sizes responsively on different size screens.
- Using the CSS flexbox method to lay out web page content in responsive grids of rows or columns.
- Designing practical layouts of two, three or four columns.
- Applying visual effects to hyperlink states, such as text colours, backgrounds, borders, and transitions.
- Styling hyperlinks as buttons with Font Awesome icons.
- Adding smooth-scrolling visual effects to page navigation.
- Designing attention-grabbing, above-the-fold ‘hero’ sections with slide-in animations.
- Applying background images, tinted overlays, and videos.
- Adding email sign-up and contact forms to web pages.
- Creating desktop/laptop website navigation menu bars with logos, hyperlinks, and call-to-action buttons.
- Adding on-scroll effects to menu bars.
- Creating fly-out, off-canvas menus for mobile screens.
- Designing home, portfolio, and contact pages for your personal website to showcase your web design skills and projects.
- Tracking user visits and engagement with your website using Google Analytics and Inspectlet.
Assessment
The Diploma in Web Design is a hands-on and project-based ‘learning-by-doing’ course. Students are graded according to their performance of the following tasks:
- Completion and uploading of regular in-class exercises.
- Completion and uploading of six practical mini-website projects.
(Submitted within 4 weeks of course completion. Templates are provided for these projects so students can focus on developing key web design skills with minimal typing.) - Creation and uploading of a four-page personal portfolio website.
(Submitted within 4 weeks of course completion.)
Career Opportunities
In addition to providing a solid foundation in professional web design, this Diploma Course will equip graduates with career-boosting skills for pursuing opportunities in areas such as the following:
- UI / UX design
- Web content creation
- Digital, email and social media marketing
- eCommerce and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Front-end software development
Academic Progression Opportunities
Students who graduate with an IBAT College Diploma in Web Design and are interested in furthering their study in the area of web development are eligible to progress onto the more advanced IBAT College Diploma in Front End Development.
Why IBAT College?
Career Potential
Maximise your career potential as you remain working while obtaining a professionally relevant, career enhancing, qualification at the same time.
Excellent Lecturing Staff
Learn from friendly and highly qualified academic staff, with industry experience, in small class-sizes, and guest lecturers who are experts in their fields.
Student Experience
Being part of a culturally diverse student nationality mix at IBAT College Dublin, with learners from over 30 different countries, gives you the opportunity to learn culturally different working methods first-hand, and the fundamentals to succeed in a globally connected network once you graduate.
City Centre Location
With our campus located in Dublin city centre, in Temple Bar, you are close to all major transport hubs making it easy to attend classes in between work and home.
Programme Material
Printed course notes are supplied for the first lecture. All subsequent notes are then available to download/view/print through the student virtual learning (Moodle) platform.
Testimonials
“Delighted to have achieved this Diploma in Web Design from IBAT College Dublin, excited to put my new skills to use!”
Lecturer Profile
Entry Requirements
The programme is ideally suited if you are just starting to work in the area of web design, or would like to do so. No prior academic qualification or professional experience in web design is required.
You will require access to a standard laptop or desktop computer and a broadband Internet connection.
There are no additional software products to purchase. This course uses only free-to-download software and a range of free-to-use online services and resources. These include Microsoft Visual Studio Code for building web pages, GitHub for website hosting, Google Fonts for typefaces, and Pexels, UnDraw and Font Awesome for stock photography, illustrations, videos and icons.
How to Apply
Don’t miss out because you’re unsure.
You can contact or apply to us directly using the the "Contact Us" or "Apply Online" options below or at the top of the page, this will reserve your place and also give us the key details to start your application, a member of our admissions team will then contact you with further details, or alternatively you can simply "Ask us a Question" using the form below.
You can also "Book a One-to-One" with one of our course specialists who will provide you with additional guidance on your application, you can set up a meeting by:
- Calling us at: +353 1 8075 055
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We also have flexible payment plans, please contact us to discuss your options or visit the college anytime and our course specialists will be more than willing to discuss any queries you may have.
We look forward to meeting you.
IBAT is now offering 100% interactive learning via virtual classrooms, all at an affordable price. We’re adapting along with the rest of the world, to the new normal. With an increasing shift towards online learning and as jobs become harder to find, now is the time to take initiative and upskill by gaining a diploma from the comfort of your own home.
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