Workbooks
Study at home with the same books we use in our classes. Step-by-step exercises walk you through multiple projects, each dealing with different aspects of the program. It’s the next best thing to taking a course.
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Certificate Programs
Web Design 
Learn how to design and build websites.
Approved by the New York State Department of Education, Noble Desktop’s Certificate in Web Design program covers everything a student needs to build modern websites. Students get 96 hours of intensive instruction starting with HTML and CSS, slicing graphics in Fireworks, and continuing with more advanced CSS, through the latest in HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery, and even mobile web design. Once completed students will end with a comprehensive understanding of front-end web design and development allowing them to make their own great-looking modern websites (or work on anyone else’s!).
The cost for the seven courses comprising the Certificate in Web Design would normally be $5200 if taken separately. However, we offer the complete program at a special price of $4000. If students have previously taken one or more of the courses in the program, they can finish the program and a discount will be offered so that the final price to complete the program is $4000 or less. If students have equivalent experience in any of the programs above, our standard discounts will be applied to other courses necessary to complete the certificate.
To sign up, just select the classes you would like to take from our schedule. On the Registration Page please mention “Certificate in Web Design” in the comments. We will make sure you receive the appropriate discounts to achieve the certificate at the lowest possible price.
Recommended Class Order
Web Development Level 1 or Dreamweaver Level 1
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Our Level 1 class is a great way to jump into building websites. In the Web Development course you’ll hand code all the HTML and CSS, whereas in the Dreamweaver course you’ll start with code, but switch into Design View for most of the class. You will create multi-page websites with images, rollovers, forms, CSS, background images, and more. You will upload your files to the web, and walk out of class ready to build your first site.
Fireworks
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Adobe Fireworks is a powerful web graphics editor, letting you design entire webpages, slice images, build animated GIFs, and manage web graphics of all sorts. In this class you will learn how to design a web page from scratch, create rollover effects, slice graphics, and optimize them as JPEG, PNG and GIF, and more.
Web Development Level 2 or Dreamweaver Level 2
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We teach CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in our Level 1 course, but there is so much CSS can do that it deserves another class! You’ll learn to use div tags for advanced layout techniques, creating center-align designs and multi-column layouts using relative positioning. You’ll learn how to float elements into position, how inline versus block elements work, how to create CSS rollovers (no JavaScript needed), and much more. In the Web Development course you’ll hand code all the HTML and CSS, whereas in the Dreamweaver you’ll be in Design View for most of the class.
JavaScript & jQuery
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Learning JavaScript code gives you the power to write your own scripts or use freely available JavaScript frameworks, including the industry standard: jQuery. In this class you will get hands-on experience writing real, working code. You’ll learn how to create animated slideshows with transitions such as fades or slides, create animated image enlargers, show/hide additional content and more.
HTML5 & CSS3: What’s New
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Deepen and broaden your ability to structure page content with new HTML5 semantic elements and experience the magic of native audio and video support. With CSS3, you’ll create drop shadows, text shadow, rounded corners, elements with semi-transparency, and gradient backgrounds using only CSS. You’ll even produce simple animated effects without JavaScript or Flash (we don’t cover full-blown ad banner style animation in this class though).
Mobile & Responsive Web Design
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Make your websites work with mobile devices, tablets, and desktop computers. In this class you will code a complete mobile site, as well as a responsive site. Responsive web design uses media queries to detect a device's screen size and adjust accordingly. You'll learn how to optimize sites for faster downloading on mobile devices by using CSS3 instead of graphics, how to deal with Retina graphics, CSS media queries, break points, new HTML5 form elements and more.
HTML Email
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HTML gives email personality—no wonder it has become a staple of advanced communications. Everyone can benefit from sending HTML email, whether it’s large corporations or small businesses and freelancers. This class will cover building and working with two different layouts: a simple one-time email and a weekly newsletter. You'll learn how to lay out emails, apply email-friendly CSS, make a table of contents, and fix various email client issues.
