Website Design Schools
The best place to start a career in Web design is in Web Design School. There are all kinds of courses that web design schools offer, including traditional classroom courses on campus and online courses that you can take at home.
There are short courses on specific topics that are useful to web designers, and there are longer courses that will give you a certificate, a diploma or a degree – two or four year – in web design.
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Featured Web Design School
| The Art Institutes |
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The Art Institutes system of schools is a leading educator of students in the creative and applied arts, including design, media, fashion, and culinary programs. Every program of study offered to you is regularly reviewed by industry leaders, advisors, and employers for relevance in the marketplace. Changes are made, if necessary, to integrate subject matter into the curriculum so that our degree programs reflect the way things are done in the real world of work. Programs listed are not offered at all locations.
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Your Smart Career Move for a Slow Economy
When the economy is up, it's impossible to count the number of companies flocking to the Internet. When the economy is down, every inch of cyber-real estate becomes that much more precious. If you're looking for ways to weather this current downturn and potentially ride the next wave that comes along, perhaps Web design is where you should set your sights. Use this time now to develop the necessary skills required for this occupational field. Whether you graduate during a recession or during a boom, your training can help you maximize your earning potential.
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Businessmen or Artists: Who's Better at Web Design?
When it comes to Web design, who is better suited for the task? Analytical thinkers who understand the basics of business administration, quantitative reasoning, and analytic design? Or does the craft favor artistic and creative people who understand nuance, aesthetics, spacing, and emotions?
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The Top 3 Reasons to Become a Web Designer
Reason 1. Everyone Wants You
What company or organization doesn't have a web site? It is the new first source of information on every company and group everywhere.
Corporations, small businesses, government and educational systems, healthcare programs, entertainment businesses, and more depend on effective web design to communicate with their audiences.
Reason 2. You Can Work Anywhere
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts the best opportunities for web designers over other types of designers. You can work at a design firm, full-time. You can work at a corporation, designing its internal and external websites. You can work at a marketing or advertising firm. You can work as a consultant for any type of organization that needs web design.
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Getting that Web 2.0 Look
Web 2.0 is the new frontier in web design and functionality. If you're looking for the same old static click, search, surf blindly off a list of links mentality, stay home. Web 2.0 is about interactivity at the speed of your brain, with larger-than-life icons, navigational features that look like blunt instruments, and a landing page that looks like a busy airport, with instant clicks on RSS, podcasts, and social software.
Web 2.0 design is about rapid fire functionality and easy navigation to provide easily highlighted features with obvious alternatives. That means a slenderized interface with bulky image buttons a four-year-old could click, and oversized fonts that blast out headers and diminish to large headings where 14 point font is -- well, yesterday.
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