Designed to help you fast track your career, our recommended career pathway combines the courses you need to gain the wider job opportunities and higher earning capacity you want.
This course combines with and builds on the CIW Web Foundations course to complete your recommended Certified Internet Web (CIW) studies. It gives you powerful, professional qualifications that will fast track your career and give you higher earning potential.
The CIW Web Design Specialist course enhances the skills and knowledge you gain on your V5 Foundation course. With the confidence of professional qualifications behind you, you can really enhance your CV and will find greater career opportunities open up for you. Not to mention the potential to earn higher income.
So you’ll save money on your studies and more than cover the costs when you get the job you want.
Find out more about our CIW pathway course and save money today.
Careers
At the end of your Home Learning Course, and with the qualification you want under your belt, the door to a new career or promotion is close at hand.
With this course you will be able to apply for jobs as a Web Design Specialist, Web author, marketing and communications professional, PR professional, Webmaster, graphic designer, desktop publisher or technical writer and earn about £40,000*, or more a year.
*Source: IT Jobs Watch - 2008
Example Roles
Website Designer
£44,245
Source: IT Jobs Watch |
Digital Marketing Manager
£47,250
Source: IT Jobs Watch |
Technical Writer
£33,400
Source: IT Jobs Watch |
CIW Web Design Specialist Demand & Salary Trend UK
Source: IT Jobs Watch
Career Development
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Our Tutors
We recognise that expert support and guidance is vital in helping students succeed, and your Home Learning College Tutor is dedicated to helping you achieve your goals.
When you enrol you are assigned a personal Tutor, an expert in their subject area who is trained to support and coach you throughout the duration of your studies. Tutors are recruited, employed and trained by Home Learning College, ensuring that students have access to the best quality support and tuition available.
You will have unlimited access to your personal Tutor via phone, post or online. From the day you enrol, we are committed to helping you successfully complete your course – and take the next step.
Student Community
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Once you're a member of our Virtual Learning Community you can tap into a great deal more – anywhere and anytime:
Our unique Virtual Learning Community delivers a more involving study experience and greater student success rates. Once registered you'll be able to:
- Meet and chat with any of our 65,000 students
- Participate in online discussion boards
- Set up and manage your own Personal Study Area
- Interact with your Tutor
- Access your assignments and course materials
- Participate in interactive quizzes and e-assessments
- Watch video-casts and download online tutorials
- Access a library of user generated content
- Access additional learning tools
- Access anywhere 24 hours a day
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Take a tour of our unique Virtual Learning Community.
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Home Learning College is the only vocational home study provider within the UK to offer students an interactive online community. Access to our Virtual Learning Community means that you’ll have all the flexibility and benefits of studying from home whilst ensuring that you are never actually studying alone.
Study Plan
Your course material will cover a wide variety of topics and subjects.
Your CIW Web Design Specialist course is split into five books and 34 lessons. Together they cover a wide variety of topics and subjects, including:
- Web project management fundamentals
- Multimedia and the Web
- Ethical and legal issues in web development
- Cascading style sheets (CSS)
- Introduction to site development with Microsoft Expression Web
- Introduction to site development with Adobe Dreamweaver
- Multimedia with Flash – ActionScript, Masks & Practical Uses
- Plug-Ins and Java Applets
- Databases
- Web site publishing and maintenance
Study Details
Each new study topic adds to the knowledge you have already gained, and you should be able to complete the entire course within approximately 295 hours of study.
Your course includes Case Studies which act as discussion points about real-world skills, applications and topics. These include project management issues, and the relationship between technology and business operations. There are 34 Case Studies throughout the course.
Guided, step-by-step labs also provide ideal opportunities to practice new skills. There are 34 labs in total.
You can also challenge yourself and review your skills in the Lesson Summary and Lesson Review sections after each lesson. Reviews are on the Virtual Learning Community. You can further reinforce your skills in the Virtual Learning Community by engaging in Activities, Optional Labs and Lesson Quizzes.
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| 6 months |
13 hours |
| 12 months |
6 hours |
| 24 months |
3 hours |
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| Exams |
1 core exam |
| Entry Requirement |
CIW Web Foundations Associate |
| Study Hours |
295 hours |
| Quality Materials |
Yes - written by industry expert |
| Number of Units |
Five books with a total of 34 lessons |
| Number of Assignments |
34 |
Our Certified Internet Web (CIW) Web Design Specialist material is written by experts.
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