CIW: Web Design Specialist (1D0-520)
(1D0-520)
/ ISBN: 9781616917067
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TestPrep
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CIW: Web Design Specialist (1D0-520)
Gain the skills and expertise required to pass the CIW Web Design Specialist certification exam with the CIW Web Design Specialist course. The course focuses on the 1D0-520 exam objectives and covers topics like site development essentials, web design elements, basic and advanced web technologies; website development process, website accessibility and usability; navigation concepts, and many more. The course is best suited for professionals willing to start a career in the field of web designing.
The CIW Web Design Specialist certification is a vendor-neutral, industry-recognized credential designed for IT professionals to demonstrate their web designing skills. The exam is a part of the CIW Web and Mobile Design series certification. It validates your expertise in designing and publishing websites including extensible HTML, and extended technologies, image files, GUI site development applications, site publishing and maintenance, and many more.
Lessons
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34+ Lessons
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989+ Quizzes
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74+ Flashcards
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74+ Glossary of terms
TestPrep
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70+ Pre Assessment Questions
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4+ Full Length Tests
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311+ Post Assessment Questions
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280+ Practice Test Questions
LiveLab (Add-on)
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159+ LiveLab
- Web Technology
- The Nature of the Web
- Web Design Concepts
- New Technologies
- Evaluating Your XHTML Skills
- Lesson Summary
- Optional Lab
- Web Teams and Tasks
- Web Project Management
- Web Project Collaboration
- Your Web Design Portfolio
- Your Web Design Business
- Lesson Summary
- Optional Lab
- Web Project Management Phases
- Project Documentation and Communication
- Lesson Summary
- Optional Lab
- Bottom-Up Approach to Web Development
- Understanding the Business Process
- Defining a Web Site Vision
- From Vision to Strategy
- Web Site Specifications
- The Metaphor
- Mystery Meat Navigation
- The Mindmapping Process
- Creating a Web Site Wireframe
- Creating a Web Page Wireframe
- Lesson Summary
- Optional Lab
- Web Users and Site Design
- Effective Web Page Layout
- Branding and the Web
- Color and Web Design
- Fonts and Web Design
- Lesson Summary
- Optional Lab
- Audience Usability and Accessibility
- Defining Usability
- Web Site Usability Testing
- Web Page Accessibility
- Lesson Summary
- Optional lab
- Browsers and Navigation
- Browsers and Design Considerations
- Browser Adoption
- Major, Minor and Alternative Browsers
- Creating Aliases with TinyURL
- Utilizing CAPTCHA
- Lesson Summary
- Optional lab
- Why Is Navigation Critical?
- Primary and Secondary Navigation
- Navigation Hierarchy
- Site Structure, URLs and File Names
- Familiar Navigation Conventions
- Guided Navigation
- Navigation Action Plan
- Lesson Summary
- Optional lab
- Web Site Images
- Digital Imaging Concepts
- Raster vs. Vector Graphics
- Graphics Applications
- Image File Formats
- Creating and Optimizing Images
- Essential Graphic Design Concepts
- Lesson Summary
- Optional lab
- Multimedia and Web Sites
- Current Multimedia Capabilities
- Animation and the Web
- Audio and the Web
- Video and the Web
- Goals of a Multimedia Site
- Multimedia Site Design Basics
- User Interaction
- Selecting Multimedia Elements
- Lesson Summary
- Optional lab
- Ethics and Law in Web Development
- Ethical Issues and the Web
- Legal Issues and the Web
- Lesson Summary
- Optional Lab
- Function of Markup Languages
- SGML: A Short History
- What Is HTML?
- HTML Goals
- The HTML Standard
- HTML 1.0 and 2.0
- HTML 3.0 and 3.2
- HTML 4.0 and 4.01
- Separating Format from Structure in HTML
- Extensible HTML (XHTML)
- Reference Sites for Web Developers
- Lesson Summary
- Optional lab
- What Is XML?
- XML Goals
- What Is an XML Document?
- Rules for Well-Formed XML
- HTML Transition to XML
- What Is XHTML?
- Applying a Single Standard Consistently
- Lesson Summary
- Optional Lab
- Creating Structure with X/HTML Tables
- Diagramming a Basic X/HTML Table
- Borderless Web Page Structure
- X/HTML Frames and Framesets
- The X/HTML <frameset> Tag
- The X/HTML <frame> Tag
- Targeting Hyperlinks in X/HTML
- The X/HTML <noframes> Tag
- Lesson Summary
- Optional lab
- Style Sheets
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Defining and Using Styles
- Changeable Style Attributes
- Style Guides
- Changes from CSS1 to CSS2
- Page Layout with CSS
- The CSS Box Model
- Document Flow and Positioning
- CSS Positioning Schemes
- Lesson Summary
- Optional Lab
- Written Web Site Content
- Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Metadata
- The <meta> Tag and Document Identification
- The <meta> Tag and Search Engines
- The <meta> Tag and Delayed File Change
- Lesson Summary
- Optional lab
- The Transition from FrontPage
- Microsoft Expression Web 4
- Expression Web Views
- Expression Web Menus and Toolbars
- Opening Web Sites and Files in Expression Web
- Developing W3C-Compliant Code with Expression Web
- Lesson Summary
- Page Layout Options in Expression Web
- Creating a New Web Site Using Expression Web
- Page Layout with CSS
- Inserting Images with Expression Web
- Creating Hyperlinks with Expression Web
- Creating Image Maps with Expression Web
- Creating Navigation Bars Using CSS
- Expression Web's Dynamic Web Templates
- Pasting Formatted Text with Expression Web
- Pasting X/HTML content with Expression Web
- Lesson Summary
- Optional lab
- Expression Web Styles
- Adding Interactivity to Web Pages
- Creating Web Forms with Expression Web
- Connecting to Databases
- Expression Web Reports
- Options for Replacing Old Webbots
- Lesson Summary
- Optional Lab
- Adobe Dreamweaver CS6
- Dreamweaver Layout Options
- Lesson Summary
- Optional lab
- Page Layout in Dreamweaver
- Creating Image Maps in Dreamweaver
- Creating Templates in Dreamweaver
- Importing Content in Dreamweaver
- Lesson Summary
- Optional Lab
- Rollover Images in Dreamweaver
- Dreamweaver Web Forms
- Dreamweaver Behaviors
- Dreamweaver Assets and Library
- Editing X/HTML in Dreamweaver
- Jump Menus in Dreamweaver
- Site Search Forms in Dreamweaver
- Adobe Exchange
- Lesson Summary
- Optional lab
- Open-Source GUI Editors
- GUI HTML Editors vs. Text Editors
- Open-Source Text Editors
- Creating a Static Web Page
- Using Templates
- Checking Spelling
- Lesson Summary
- Optional Lab
- Adobe Fireworks CS6
- Creating an Image Document in Fireworks
- Adding Text to Images in Fireworks
- Cropping Images in Fireworks
- Image Layers in Fireworks
- Image States in Fireworks
- Transparent Images in Fireworks
- Image Slices in Fireworks
- Lesson Summary
- Optional lab
- The History of Flash
- Flash Technology Features
- Developing with Flash
- Flash Shapes
- Color and Fills in Flash
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- Optional Lab
- Flash Timeline
- Flash Layers
- Saving and Publishing Flash Movies
- Flash Symbols
- Flash Buttons
- Customizing the Flash Library
- Lesson Summary
- Optional lab
- Flash Tweens
- Motion Tweens in Flash
- Shape Tweens in Flash
- Tweening Text in Flash
- Lesson Summary
- Optional Lab
- Flash Movie Clips
- Adding Sound to Flash Files
- Adding Flash Movies to X/HTML Files
- Testing for the Flash Player Plug-In
- Lesson Summary
- Optional lab
- Flash ActionScript
- Mask Layers in Flash
- Using SWF and SVG Files on the Web
- Flash and Accessibility
- Lesson Summary
- Optional Lab
- Why Script?
- JavaScript and Common Programming Concepts
- What Is JavaScript?
- JavaScript vs. Other Languages
- Embedding JavaScript into X/HTML
- Using JavaScript to Communicate with the User
- JavaScript Functions
- Using JavaScript for Browser Detection
- Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
- Lesson Summary
- Optional lab
- Plug-In Technology
- Plug-In Installation
- Adobe Shockwave and Flash Players
- Adobe Reader
- RealNetworks RealPlayer
- Rich Media Content
- Creating a Downloadable File
- Introduction to Java
- Java Applets
- Applets and Animation
- Applet Authoring Tools and Resources
- Lesson Summary
- Optional Lab
- What Is an HTTP Server?
- Accessing Servers and Services
- Basic HTTP Server Administration
- Server-Side Technologies
- Web Servers and Cookies
- Enabling, Disabling and Deleting Cookies
- Setting Cookie Files
- XML and Web Applications
- Syndicated Feeds
- Lesson Summary
- Optional Lab
- Web Design and Databases
- Database Anatomy
- Database Queries
- Database Management System (DBMS)
- Connecting Web Pages to Databases
- Database Tools, Products and Programs
- Lesson Summary
- Optional Lab
- Web Site Testing
- Web Site Publishing
- Web Site Hosting
- Web Publishing with an FTP Client
- Web Publishing with Expression Web
- Web Publishing with Dreamweaver
- Comparing Web Publishing Tools
- Maintaining Web Sites
- Web Server and Web Site Security
- Lesson Summary
- Optional lab
Hands on Activities (Live Labs)
- Creating a basic Web page in XHTML
- Practicing your XHTML skills by creating a basic Web page
- Creating a Web design portfolio
- Using a Wiki Web site
- Creating a vision statement for a Web site
- Developing tactics to support a Web site strategy
- Developing the specifications for a Web site
- Analyzing the competition's strategy and tactics
- Analyzing Web site and Web page wireframes
- Using Web page colors and fonts to convey a message
- Identifying common accessibility issues
- Determining usability
- Creating an alias with TinyURL
- Adding a CAPTCHA to a Web page
- Investigating Google Chrome
- Exploring various browsers
- Comparing image file formats
- Adding tags to a digital photo using Picasa
- Evaluating multimedia site design principles
- Exploring the public domain
- Discovering copyright infringement
- Learning about HTML standards
- Examining XML documents
- Creating a simple XHTML table
- Creating a simple Web page structure
- Creating a rows frameset in XHTML
- Creating a column frameset in XHTML
- Hyperlinking frame content in XHTML
- Targeting links to the top frame in XHTML
- Combining columns and rows in nested framesets
- Combining frames in XHTML
- Adding attributes to the frameset
- Adding the <noframes> tag
- Creating targeted hyperlinks in XHTML
- Creating and using embedded styles
- Applying inline styles
- Linking an external style sheet to an XHTML document
- Using CSS class selectors
- Creating a basic two-column layout with CSS
- Creating a three-column layout with CSS
- Converting a table-based page layout to CSS positioning
- Validating your style sheets using the W3C CSS Validation Service
- Using the <meta> tag to refresh a page automatically
- Using Web site metadata
- Launching Expression Web and creating a Web site
- Validating code with Expression Web
- Exploring Different Options of Expression Web for Creating Web Sites
- Creating a new Web site with Expression Web
- Preparing the home page layout with Expression Web
- Nesting divisions with Expression Web
- Inserting Images with Expression Web
- Modifying Division Properties with Expression Web
- Creating Hyperlinks with Expression Web
- Creating an image map with Expression Web
- Creating navigation bars using CSS
- Adding and Styling Links Using CSS
- Creating a dynamic Web template with Expression Web
- Adding supporting Web pages with Expression Web
- Detaching pages from a dynamic Web template with Expression Web
- Pasting formatted text with Expression Web
- Pasting XHTML Data into an Expression Web Document
- Modifying Expression Web-generated code
- Working with External Style Sheets in Expression Web
- Creating embedded styles with Expression Web
- Using inline styles in Expression Web
- Attaching Multiple Style Sheets with Expression Web
- Adding behaviors with Expression Web
- Creating Web forms with Expression Web
- Observing the effects of multiple style sheets in Expression Web
- Modifying a manually coded X/HTML page in Expression Web
- Using Expression Web reports
- Creating a Web page in Dreamweaver
- Viewing XHTML code created by Dreamweaver
- Creating a Web site in Dreamweaver
- Creating an image map in Dreamweaver
- Creating templates in Dreamweaver
- Developing a site structure in Dreamweaver
- Importing content into Dreamweaver
- Importing Microsoft Word documents into Dreamweaver
- Analyzing proprietary use of HTML code
- Creating rollover images in Dreamweaver
- Creating Web forms in Dreamweaver
- Applying behaviors in Dreamweaver
- Applying behaviors to AP elements in Dreamweaver
- Dragging AP elements in Dreamweaver
- Using assets and the Dreamweaver Library
- Editing X/HTML code manually in Dreamweaver
- Creating Jump Menus in Dreamweaver
- Adding a site search form in Dreamweaver
- Creating and choosing templates in KompoZer
- Editing a page in an open-source text editor
- Conducting a spelling and grammar check using open-source tools
- Creating an image using open-source tools
- Using an open-source GUI HTML editor to create and evaluate code
- Creating a standard Web page in KompoZer
- Adding text to images in Fireworks
- Cropping images in Fireworks
- Creating buttons in Fireworks
- Creating pop-up menus with Fireworks
- Modifying image size and resolution in Fireworks
- Creating Image Slices in Fireworks
- Working with image layers in Fireworks
- Creating Animated Images in Fireworks
- Creating a Transparent Image in Fireworks
- Using the Flash interface, toolbars and palettes
- Adding shapes to the Flash stage
- Using the Pen tool in Flash
- Changing colors, fills and gradients in Flash
- Identifying frames in Flash
- Using layers in Flash
- Saving Flash movies
- Creating symbols in Flash
- Using Flash Library buttons and ActionScript
- Creating buttons using Flash shapes
- Creating buttons in Flash using imported images
- Customizing the Flash movie library
- Working with layers in Flash
- Modifying symbols in Flash
- Creating a straight-line motion tween in Flash
- Modifying a motion path in Flash
- Creating shape tweens in Flash
- Creating a text tween in Flash
- Creating tweens with Flash
- Creating a Flash movie clip
- Resizing the Flash stage
- Adding sound to a Flash movie
- Importing a Flash movie into an X/HTML page
- Testing for the Flash Player plug-in
- Installing Flash extensions
- Creating actions in Flash
- Manipulating properties in ActionScript 3.0
- Adding objects to the stage using ActionScript
- Creating mask layers in Flash
- Using Adobe Site for reviewing case studies
- Using the JavaScript alert() method
- Using the JavaScript prompt() method
- Determining Navigator Object Properties with JavaScript
- Creating a sniffer and redirection with JavaScript
- Preloading Images with JavaScript
- Using DHTML to position page elements
- Using the open() method in JavaScript
- Using the confirm() method
- Embedding an Animation Applet
- Running a Java applet
- Downloading the Adobe Reader plug-in
- Downloading and Installing the RealNetworks RealPlayer plug-in
- Creating a rich media ad
- Viewing and analyzing rich media
- Using a database in a Web site
- Creating a Web form to be handled with CGI
- Modifying cookie settings in Internet Explorer
- Setting cookies with JavaScript
- Creating an RSS news feed
- Using an RSS reader
- Comparing feed-burning service providers
- Modifying cookie settings in the Firefox browser
- Publishing a Web site with Expression Web
- Using an open-source FTP client
- Publishing a Web site with Dreamweaver (for demonstration only)
| What are the prerequisites for this exam? | Here are the pre-requisites:
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| What is the exam registration fee? | USD 150 |
| Where do I take the exam? | Pearson VUE or PSI |
| What is the format of the exam? | The exam consists of linear, multiple choice, fill in the blank, fact-based, and situational questions. |
| How many questions are asked in the exam? | The exam contains 70 questions. |
| What is the duration of the exam? | 75 minutes |
| What is the passing score? | 70% |
| What is the exam's retake policy? | Here are the retake policies:
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| What is the validity of the certification? | CIW certifications do not expire. |
| Where can I find more information about this exam? | To know more about the , click here. |
| What are the career opportunities after passing this exam? |
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