Middlesex Community College Offers Web Design Courses

Middlesex Community College’s Community Education and Career Training Program offers a variety of noncredit courses in Web Design, including:

Dreamweaver Basics and Essentials (TEC 623 30 14399) – Students will learn to use Dreamweaver to define sites, format text, insert graphics and media, and create hyperlinks, tables, and forms. Students will create a working website and practice publishing to a simulated web host. Students must have prior working knowledge of Windows. Courses begin Monday, Oct. 28.

Photoshop Skills for the Web (TEC 627 31 14850) – Students will learn to use Adobe Photoshop’s tools to create images, edit photos and optimize them for use in web-based projects. Topics covered will include file formats, color corrections, spot touch ups, cropping, resizing, adjustment layers, adding text, special effects and more. Students must have a working knowledge of Windows. Courses begin Thursday, Oct. 24.

Maintaining A Website (TEC 639 31 14841) – This course will take students through the planning process of developing a website from client meeting to site launch and beyond. Topics include work flow, client meetings, contracts, color, wire framing, web hosting, domain registration, development, SEO (search engine optimization), and analytics. Students will also learn to incorporate social media plug-ins into their site. Courses begin Wednesday, Nov. 20.

For further information or to register for these and other noncredit courses, call 1-800-818-3434 or visit www.middlesex.mass.edu/careertraining.

MCC is one of the largest, most comprehensive community colleges in the state. We offer more than 75 degree and certificate programs, plus hundreds of noncredit courses, during the day, evening and weekend, on our Bedford and Lowell campuses, and online. Middlesex – a great place to begin your future!