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Master Certified Internet Webmaster Designer Certification
The course is composed of three modules, each one representing an Internet job role with its own exam. Students must complete the following CIW series training and exams to become a Master CIW Designer. Click any of the course components for more details:

CIW Foundations - CIW exam 1D0-410 or 1D0-310
Internet Fundamentals
Web page Authoring Fundamentals
Networking Fundamentals

CIW Site Designer Series - CIW exam 1D0-420 or 1D0-320
Design Methodology and Technology

CIW E-Commerce Designer Series -
CIW exam 1D0-425 or 1D0-380
E-Commerce Strategies and Practices

The CIW Foundations, Site- Designer, and E-Commerce certifications apply human-factors principles to designing, implementing, and maintaining hypertext-based publishing sites using authoring and scripting languages, content creation and management tools, and digital media tools. It also focuses on theory, design and Web construction, along with information architecture concepts, Web project management, scenario development and performance evaluations. It is recommended for Internet professionals who are responsible for implementing and maintaining hypertext-based Web sites, creating Web content, and using Web management and digital media tools.
Prerequisites: Understanding of Microsoft Windows 2000 is required.

Internet Fundamentals:
This is a one-day course designed to guide students through the Internet and its wide array of useful resources. Students learn how to use key Internet technologies, such as Web browsers, e-mail, newsgroups, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Telnet, and search engines. Students gain experience configuring both Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer to access rich multimedia, including Real Player, Shockwave and Flash content. Students also use a variety of Web-based search engines to conduct advanced searches and learn the basics of electronic commerce and security issues.
Topics: Overview of the Internet; Browsing the World Wide Web; FTP, Newsgroups, and Telnet; Electronic Mail; Objects, Plug-Ins, and Viewers; Search Engines; Security; E-Commerce

Web Page Authoring Fundamentals -
This is a two-day course designed to teach students Web page creation and other aspects of Web authoring. Students gain experience developing Web pages in a text editor and a graphic user interface (GUI) editor. Students also learn how to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and study the basics of Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), JavaScript, Dynamic HTML (DHTML), and the Document Object Model (DOM). After completing this course, students will be able to create simple Web pages containing text, graphics, hyperlinks, tables, forms, and frames.
Topics: Intro to Web Page Authoring; Hypertext Markup Language (HTML); HTML Coding; Horizontal Rules and Graphical Elements; HTML Extensions; HTML Graphical User Interface Editors; Hyperlinks, Tables, Forms, Frames/Image Techniques

Networking Fundamentals -
This is a two-day course designed to teach students fundamental networking concepts and practices. Topics include network architecture and standards, networking protocols, TCP/IP, Internet servers, server-side scripting and database connectivity, and security. Topics: Introduction to Networking; Network Protocols; LANs and WANs; TCP/IP Architecture and Internet Adrs.; Internetworking Servers; Server-side Scripting and Database Conn.; Network Security Essentials

Design Methodology and Technology -
This is a five-day course that teaches students how to create and manage Web sites with tools such as Macromedia Dream weaver 4.0 and Flash 5.0, FrontPage 2000, Dynamic HTML, and various multimedia and CSS standards. Students will also implement the latest strategies to develop third-generation Web sites, evaluate design tools, discuss future technology standards, and explore the incompatibility issues surrounding current browsers. The course focuses on theory, design and Web construction, along with information architecture concepts, Web project management.
Topics: Overview of Design Concepts; Web Page Layout and Elements; Usability Testing; Navigation Concepts; Web Graphics; Multimedia and the Web; The Web Development Process; Site Implementation Factors; Mind mapping; HTML Standards and Compliance; Tables and Web Page Structure; HTML Frames; Metadata and the Web; Cascading Style Sheets; Site Development with Microsoft FrontPage 2000; FrontPage 2000 - Basic Features; FrontPage 2000 - Advanced; Site Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.0; Macromedia Dreamweaver Basic and Advance Features; Web Pages with Allaire Home Site 5.0; Images with JASC Paint Shop Pro; Multimedia with Macromedia Flash 5.0; JavaScript Fundamentals; Dynamic HTML; Extensible Markup Language (XML); HTTP Server; Cookies; Downloadable and Plug-Ins; Java Applets; Databases; Standards Organizations; Web Site Publishing; Web Workshop

E-Commerce Strategy and Practices -
This is a five-day course that teaches students how to conduct business online and how to manage the technological issues associated with constructing an electronic-commerce Web site. Students will implement a genuine transaction-enabled business-to-consumer Web site, examine strategies and products available for building electronic-commerce sites, examine how such sites are managed, and explore how they can complement an existing business infrastructure. Students get hands-on experience implementing the technology to engage cardholders, merchants, issuers, payment gateways and other parties in electronics transactions.
Topics: Electronic Commerce Foundations; Law and the Internet; Web Marketing Goals; Online Product Promotion; Site Usability; Commerce Consumer Service Methods; Business-to-Business Frameworks; Site Creation Packages: Outsourcing; Site Development Software Implementation - Microsoft Platform; Developing an E-Commerce Site Using Commerce Server; Online Catalog; Using and Configuring Payment Gateways; E-Services Support; Transaction Security; Web Site Management and Performance Testing