This certificate program prepares you for careers in design for the World Wide Web. Millions of individuals, businesses, government agencies, and institutions are seeking to establish a presence on the World Wide Web. This explosive growth of the Internet has created a need for skilled graphic designers to create, design, produce and update millions of new and existing Web pages and sites.
This program focuses on the technology of web production. Skills development areas include Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), WYSIWYG web tools, social networking web tools, web image optimization, motion graphics tools, and web application development.
This certificate curriculum includes many of the courses included in the Associate of Applied Science degree in Graphic Design and credits may be applied toward that degree. CMC also offers two certificates in Graphic Technology .
Students must demonstrate college-level proficiency in reading and writing as prerequisites for courses within this program. Skills in these areas may affect the sequence of courses in which you can enroll and may also extend the time required to complete this program. Graphic Design courses must be completed with a grade of “C” or better to move to the next course in sequence or to satisfy graduation requirements. For more details, see the Academic Placement and Testing section.
Graduates of this program will receive a Certificate of Occupational Proficiency in Web Technology.
Please see your adviser for a recommended sequence of courses.
The Web Technology certificate is offered at Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs and Glenwood Springs-Spring Valley. This certificate program is not eligible for federal student aid funds.