Adobe® Photoshop™for Web

Optimise your graphics for the web using Adobe® Photoshop™ for the web. This essential course will take you through the many useful tools that allow you to alter, edit and create visually stunning graphics that will give your website that all important edge. Speak to your target market with exciting and unique images that leap off the page and ensure that your attractive artworks download and display correctly across platforms and browsers.

WordPress Essential Skills

Want to make web sites that connect? Learn to build beautiful websites with commercial value and more powerful back-end features.

If you are an aspiring web programmer who wants to enhance add commercial value to your already functional HTML & Flash sites – and thereby enhance the usability and professionalism of your web sites – then this is the course for you!
This 4 week evening course is not intended for absolute beginners. You will require Module 2 (XHTML/CSS Essentials) and Adobe Photoshop Essential Skills, or equivalent work experience, in order to manage with the content of this course.

You will cover popular topics in the field of advanced web programming such as an introduction to cutting-edge technologies like Server-based scripting in PHP, and how work with basic PHP using WordPress, editing and creating your own WordPress templates, using external sources to fill your website with content, such as XML and advanced HTML. Practical projects make this course a must!

Adobe® Actionscript™ 2.0 / 3.0

Want to take your work to the next level and manage your time more effectively? Create and communicate interactively with your designs and animations using Adobe® Actionscript™. Adobe® Actionscript™ is an innovative scripting language program that allows you to do communicate easily with your designs, providing feedback as the file is running in real time. This, of course, allows you to make necessary changes as and when you see them, saving you time and giving you flexibility and freedom. Make your designs and animations more exciting and dynamic. Don’t delay, book your seat now and unleash Adobe® Flash™’s true power with Adobe® Actionscript™.

Adobe® Contribute™ Essential Skills

Want to be able to manage your web authoring and content management effectively without having to work with HTML coding? Adobe® Contribute™ is an effective and powerful tool that will help you to manage your website with ease, integrating authoring, editing, reviewing and publishing tools, whilst allowing you to collaborate and simplify content management. Manage your workflow efficiently, and increase your productivity by taking our Adobe® Contribute™ Essential Skills course.

HTML 4.0 / XHTML 1.0 and 2.0 Essential Skills (Introduction to Adobe® Dreamweaver™)

Learning how to construct a website may seem daunting but with our HTML/CSS course, we will show you from the get go how to apply and understand general web concepts, how browsers work, and how to use HTML & XHTML, CSS (Cascading Stylesheets) with ease and efficiency. Study Internet basics, use text editor, understand web page layout, web graphics and toss in a bit of Adobe® Photoshop™ to get you up to speed with web page architecture. Be that web designer you’ve always wanted to be and book your seat now!

Adobe® Dreamweaver™ Essential Skills

Wanting to become a web designer but reluctant to write the HTML and CSS code by hand? Want to create web layouts with ease, being able to see clearly how your page will look before displayed in a browser? We will teach you how to do this and much more, using the large array of functions that will ultimately take you easily from concept to finished website. Code editing is easily done using Adobe® Dreamweaver™, allowing you to explore a wide array of creative options and solutions for integrating graphics, navigation elements and animations.

Adobe® Flash™ Essential Skills

Adobe® Flash™ is a household name when it comes to multimedia, used in a variety of mediums from movies, to interactive demos and, of course, interactive web components. We will show you how to use Adobe® Flash™ as well as Adobe® Actionscript™, Adobe® Flash™’s backend coding language, and teach you about rich media sites and the use of multimedia in the Web. Learn how to work with text on the web, perfect your web page layout skills and understand web usability. By the end of this course, you will be able to produce an engaging interface using text, graphics, animations, video, and sound, and simple user interactions are added using built in Adobe® Actionscript™ behaviors and Script Assist.