Web Technologies

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Overview

The part-time Web Technologies Certificate covers web design skills such as XML, CSS, jQuery Mobile, JavaScript, and Flash. It's a 16-course online program where you begin by planning web pages and mastering effective presentation and navigation. The program culminates in creating your own online portfolio showcasing your newfound skills.

Note: This program is currently under review and is not accepting program declarations at this time. If you have questions, please contact the program area.

Great web design can make people sit up and engage with a site, no matter what the industry or subject matter. And the best web designers are sought out by companies and organizations for their skills … but first, they needed to train and build a great portfolio.

BCIT’s Web Technologies Certificate gives you a flexible, fully online program that fits both your schedule and your learning needs. You’ll be able to organize the classes you take based on your own timeline to get the most up-to-date information and training developed by working industry professionals. With the advanced courses in web technologies, you’ll hone your skills with XML, jQuery Mobile, Flash, and more to prepare you for an exciting career in web design.

About the program

Entirely online for flexibility to meet your schedule
Prepares you for a new career in web design

Learn more about how BCIT’s unique career-focused training can help you become a professional web designer on the Program Details page.

Who should complete the Web Technologies Certificate?

This program might be right for you if you:

Have an interest in art and design
Enjoy collaborating with other people
Hope to use your skills to become a web designer
Enjoy the challenge of creating new solutions to technical problems
Are looking for a creative career path

If you’re ready to train for a rewarding career in web design or technology, apply today on our Entrance Requirements page.

What grads can do

By developing a strong foundation of design and technical skills, including designing for mobile devices with the most current software, you’ll be poised to launch a career in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, sales, high-tech industries, retail, health, business, transportation, advertising, and professional services. Almost every industry and field now requires a web presence and qualified personnel to maintain it.

With your Certificate in Web Technologies and the creative portfolio you’ll develop in your courses, you’ll have a wide range of career prospects, including entry-level positions like web designer, web producer, new media specialist, social media manager, and more.

To learn more about the benefits of a Certificate in Web Technologies, visit our Graduating and Jobs page.

Entrance Requirements

About Flexible Learning

Take a single course, or work towards a credential — all at a pace that’s right for you.

Part-time courses are offered in a variety of scheduling formats, including at night or on weekends, flexible day time delivery, or you can opt for distance or online learning. If you meet the prerequisites and there’s space available, you can register for a course immediately. Courses are offered in each of three terms: Fall (September), Winter (January) and Spring/Summer (April).

To apply to a Flexible Learning program and earn your credential, you simply need to complete a Part-time Program Declaration Request. Applications are processed throughout the year.

Application processing

This program is open to declarations beginning:

February 1st* for the January intake
May 1st* for the April intake
October 1st* for the September intake

*or next business day

Entrance requirements

Notice to applicants: As part of our ongoing commitment to ensure students are best prepared for their studies, Flexible Learning programs will be adopting English Language Proficiency standards (Categories 1, 2, and 3) as part of their declaration requirements effective April 2025.

Declarations submitted for program intakes beginning April 1, 2025 or later will be evaluated using the English Language Proficiency (ELP) requirement below.

English language proficiency: Category 2 – English Studies 12 (67%) or equivalent

International applicants

This program is available to international applicants who will complete the program from outside Canada or who currently have a valid status in Canada other than study permit. International applicants accepted into this program are not eligible for a study permit.

Program declaration

Note: This program is currently under review and is not accepting program declarations at this time. If you have questions, please contact the program area.

Scheduled Intakes

Ongoing Flexible Learning (Part-time Studies) intakes: January, April, and September.

Prior Learning Assessment & Recognition (PLAR)

Students may request to have prior work experience or previously taken courses assessed for course exemption. Contact either Paul_Sawyer@bcit.ca, or Angelina_Shine@bcit.ca for further details on Prior Learning Assessment Recognition.

Costs & Supplies

Tuition fees

Flexible Learning (Part-time Studies) tuition is charged on a course-by-course basis. Please see the Flexible Learning Tuition & Fees page for more information.

Courses

Important updates to Flexible Learning

English Requirement: Find out more.

The courses you’ll take in earning this certificate have been developed and are taught by working industry professionals. Through the series of 16 courses, you’ll get hands-on training with today’s most up-to-date technology and programs, including CSS, Photoshop, HTML, XML, and more. Additionally, you’ll have courses like Audio and Visual Technologies for Web Publishing, WordPress Content Management System and Mobile Design, and Responsive Web Design.

You’ll earn your certificate entirely online with a flexible schedule to fit your needs and prepare you for a successful, rewarding career in web design.

Students with approved Program Declaration, please note: Program matrix changes effective September 2016 may impact you as follows.

If your program declaration lists MDIA 4303 – Advanced Web Design and you have not completed it, please complete MDIA 4302 – Modern Web Design instead.
If your program declaration lists MDIA 4304 – Advanced Cascading Style Sheets and you have not completed it, please complete MDIA 4500 – Final Project: Portfolio instead, as the last course in the Certificate program.

Please note: part-time programs and courses are open enrolment and although we make every effort to accommodate demand, course registration cannot be guaranteed in every semester. High demand courses fill quickly and may result in students unable to register for a course that semester. Courses may also be cancelled due to low enrolment.

Program matrix

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Required Courses:			Credits
	MDIA 1205	Web Design Technologies 1 This course introduces students to web design and development using HTML 5, the UTF-8 character set, and the basics of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Students will hand code web pages and style them with CSS. Students will analyze commercial websites in order to gain insight into website design and story-boarding of their own pages. In addition to web design learners will also explore web publishing, web marketing, website maintenance (Internet and intranet) along with other web technologies. This is a distance education web design course offered entirely online. Students must have access to the Internet, a personal e-mail account, and a PC Pentium/Dual Core or Macintosh PPC/Intel with 1gb or more of RAM. Also required is an FTP Client for PC or Macintosh. Links to available FTP software will be provided from within the course documentation. Prerequisite(s): Students will need to have current PC or Mac operating system, reliable Wi-Fi or cellular data connection as well as an up-to-date version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Microsoft Edge browser is recommended. course outline	3.0
	MDIA 2205	Web Design Technologies 2 This course is a continuation of MDIA 1205 (Web Design Technologies 1), which begins with a review of the basic concepts of HTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and then moves into more complex topics. These techniques involve HTML5 functions for creating interactive online forms using input elements and related attributes. You will be provided with server-side script for form processing. This course introduces you to organic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and how search engines index, return, and rank results. Web analytics and sitemaps are also discussed. Activities include keyword research, choosing appropriate keywords, and preparing a web page optimized with the techniques covered. In depth coverage of CSS concepts and routines are detailed, including different types of page layouts, navigation menus, accessibility, semantic naming of CSS elements, contextual selectors, grouping selectors, pseudo-classes and elements, the float property and element positioning. You will create web page layouts with CSS styled vertical and horizontal navigation menus, general links as well CSS styled images, data tables, and print style sheets for your pages. Practical CSS techniques, such as best practices, code organization, commenting, shorthand, and accessibility, will be explored. Prerequisite(s): 50% in MDIA 1205^† (^† may be taken concurrently) course outline	3.0
	MDIA 3203	Adobe Photoshop for Web This course introduces you to the Photoshop interface and tools to create or edit graphics and images for use on the web. You will apply colour theory and management knowledge using different colour modes and bit depth. Topics include painting and editing tools, cropping, rotating, creating selections, saving selections in channels, layers, typography, paths, masking, colour correction with curves and levels, and using filters. Photoshop tools will be used in creating graphical web page elements, and designing and aligning image components. You will format image files, optimize images for the web, design and construct a layered graphic, and retouch photographic images. Prerequisite(s): No prerequisites are required for this course. course outline	3.0
	MDIA 3207	JavaScript This course concentrates on using and modifying commercial and/or freeware JavaScript routines to enhance the content of Web pages. To fully explore how JavaScript scripts work and how they may be modified, students will be asked to create JavaScript routines using manual coding. Prerequisite(s): 50% in MDIA 1205^† (^† may be taken concurrently) course outline	3.0
	MDIA 3209	WordPress and CMS In this course students use the WordPress dashboard to install and customize existing WordPress themes, add and activate plug-ins, and modify widgets to quickly and efficiently develop template driven websites. Students will convert HTML websites into WordPress templates and integrate WordPress with custom websites as a Content Management System. Students will install WordPress on a local host and migrate content between local and hosted servers; and look behind the scenes of a functioning website to examine concepts such as cPanel, database creation, and phpMyAdmin to set up and manage their own hosted WordPress website. The course will be delivered through a series of video notes. Prerequisite(s): 50% in MDIA 1205^† (^† may be taken concurrently) course outline	3.0
	MDIA 3210	Adobe Premiere Pro for Video Students use the Premiere Pro interface to create multi-layered movies by syncing audio, video, and imagery seamlessly to produce a video. The course covers adding styled titles, applying filters and transitions, and colour correcting the entire video to ensure a professional product from start to finish. The course explains how to use Premiere Pro's workflow and integrate with Adobe Photoshop, Audition, and After Effects to edit audio, imagery, and add complex effects that update in real time. Students will explore the best options for exporting video content to mount on a website, or through video sharing sites such as Vimeo, Youtube, and Vine. The course will be delivered through a series of video notes. Prerequisite(s): No prerequisites are required for this course. course outline	3.0
	MDIA 3211	Bootstrap and CSS Frameworks This course uses Bootstrap as a powerful responsive framework to manually code dynamic mobile websites. Students will combine Bootstrap's mobile assets with HTML and CSS to develop custom mobile websites with content that resizes, repositions, collapses, and hides for optimal delivery on any device. Students will implement Bootstrap's responsive plugins, including Carousel Galleries, Accordions, Modals, and Popovers to increase site usability and interactivity, and create dynamic animated elements with Bootstrap's integrated CSS animations. To ensure optimized web delivery, this course explores custom Bootstrap exports, which minimize Bootstrap's file size and increase site performance. The course will be delivered through a series of video notes. Prerequisite(s): 50% in MDIA 1205^† (^† may be taken concurrently) course outline	3.0
	MDIA 4207	Web Design Major Project This course is the culmination of the Associate Certificate program. As a major task in this course, learners will be required to locate a person or organization desiring a website and design and develop a pro bono (i.e., free) website for them. Other related tasks will include storyboarding the site, costing and contracting issues, and designing the client site (including creating a domain name for the client, mounting the site using a commercial ISP, and registering the site with search services). Other topics in the course include creating a business plan (including a strategic marketing plan), setting up a company in British Columbia, and site maintenance and related topics. Prerequisite(s): 50% in MDIA 1205^† (^† may be taken concurrently) course outline	3.0
	MDIA 4302	Modern Web Design In this course we will deal with four broad design areas in terms of contemporary issues in web design — website usability, effective use of colour, modern trends in web design, and website accessibility (for those with disabilities). In the assignments, you will explore all of these issues by analyzing a small website from their portfolio and illustrating how the issues raised in this course could be implemented to provide a better and modern user experience. You will be given a number of tools and checklists to use in analyzing websites that will help you enhance the user experience. Prerequisite(s): 50% in MDIA 2205 course outline	3.0
	MDIA 4305	XML in Web Publishing This is an introduction to using XML (Extensible Markup Language) to enhance Web page design and for e-commerce applications. Topics include the structuring of an XML document, transforming an XML document into XHTML using XSL (Extensible StyleSheet Language) and XPath, creating a DTD (Document Type Definition) and an XML Schema to define the elements and attributes which are valid in a XML document. The course also introduces using XML in a Web publishing environment. Prerequisite(s): 50% in MDIA 2205 course outline	3.0
	MDIA 4307	jQuery in Web Publishing This is an introduction to using the jQuery JavaScript library which will help students write JavaScript in a simplified, concise and elegant manner. Topics include navigating and selecting DOM (Document Object Model) elements on a web page using jQuery functions, handling events and event binding, creating simple visual effects including animation, creating simple jQuery widgets. This course also introduces learners to jQuery plugins for image manipulation, form validation and file uploads. Prerequisite(s): 50% in MDIA 2205 course outline	3.0
	MDIA 4311	Responsive Web Design In this course, learners examine the basics of Responsive Web Design. Students compare and contrast responsive design with other approaches to multi-platform and device design, and are introduced to testing tools (emulators/simulators) for various platforms that could be targeted and use these tools to validate their work. Learners also develop a wireframe for a responsive website and create a simple responsive website based on a site they previously designed using flexible grids, flexible images, and CSS3 media queries. Students will then adapt this site so that it functions well on desktop, mobile, and tablets thus creating a fully responsive Web design conversion. Prerequisite(s): 50% in MDIA 3201 course outline	3.0
	MDIA 4312	Web and Mobile Analytics Through a series of video notes this course explores the wealth of statistical data Google Analytics provides, to track how visitor activity can help you streamline your design and guide your marketing strategies. By reviewing the data in Google Analytics reports, you will learn how to optimize different aspects of your site to increase visitors, maximize Conversion Rates, and reduce your Costs of Acquisition. The course also teaches the importance of your online persona and how to synchronize your brand across all Social Media outlets. Prerequisite(s): 50% in MDIA 2205 course outline	3.0
	MDIA 4325	Using PHP In Web Publishing This course introduces the fundamentals of creating dynamic, interactive Web pages using PHP technology. Topics include: an introduction to PHP, PHP syntax, using variables HTML forms and PHP, doing math in PHP, using strings, basic control structures, using arrays, creating functions, working with files and directories, using databases in PHP, employing cookies, creating Web applications, and debugging PHP scripts. Prerequisite(s): 50% in MDIA 2205 and 50% in MDIA 3207 course outline	3.0
	MDIA 4340	Mobile Web Design using jQuery This course introduces the fundamentals of creating mobile websites using the jQuery Mobile framework — a JavaScript library that makes it easy to create websites that render correctly on a variety of mobile devices, including iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad), Android, Blackberry, PalmOS, and others. Students will explore the basic structure of a jQuery Mobile page, how to implement commonly-used page components like headers, footers, toolbars, buttons, lists, dialogs, form controls and multi-column layouts. Additional topics include the jQuery Mobile navigation model, managing transitions between pages, using themes, and responding to touchscreen events like tap and swipe. NOTE: You should own or have access to at least one mobile device (smartphone or tablet) for this course. Prerequisite(s): 50% in MDIA 3207 and 50% in MDIA 4307 course outline	3.0
	MDIA 4500	Final Project: Portfolio This course is the culmination of the Certificate in Web Technologies. You will draw together all of the knowledge and skills that you have acquired in the Certificate program and present them in terms of a personal online portfolio. There will be ten assignments (portfolio web pages) and each assignment focusses on a specific skill or technique, although other design elements to create a well-balanced web page should be included. You should approach this course with the idea that you will create a marketing tool that can be used to demonstrate your design background and skillset to prospective clients. Prerequisite(s): All other courses in Certificate program matrix list must be completed before the Final Project: www.bcit.ca/study/programs/6420cert#courses course outline	3.0

Total Credits:			48.0

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Transfer credit

Do you have credits from another BC/Yukon post-secondary school? Do you want to know if they transfer to courses here at BCIT? Check out BCIT's Transfer Equivalency Database to find out.

Program Details

The Web Technologies Certificate program gives you more in-depth, more technical training for the creation, repair, and maintenance of websites.

In this online 16 course program, you’ll begin by creating a storyboard for a series of web pages and learn how to use effective presentation and navigation techniques. Throughout the program, you’ll build a portfolio of work to help with your job search by creating your own websites, which will include images, sound and video clips, and Flash animation. Then, at the end of the program, you’ll draw together all of your knowledge and skills and present them in a personal, online portfolio.

The Web Technologies program will give you the skills and experience to:

write computer code in HTML, XML and XHTML
create cascading style sheets (CSS)
design and produce optimized web graphics
use Adobe Photoshop to adjust and optimize web images
create audio and video files for the web
create web animation with Adobe Flash
write computer code using JavaScript, DHTML, PHP and AJAX
work with ASP and ColdFusion scripting

Grading

A minimum passing grade of 50% is required.

Program delivery

Online: This program is delivered fully online.

Program location

Distance and online learning

Graduating & Jobs

By earning your Web Technologies Certificate, you’ll gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence to succeed in a career in web design. Industries and companies across the globe are increasingly in need of qualified applicants to design and maintain their web presence. Industries requiring these web professional skills include manufacturing, sales, high-tech industries, retail, health, business, transportation, advertising, and professional services.

Some career opportunities for graduates include:

Web Designer
Web Developer
Flash Developer
Front-end Coder/Developer
Web Editor
User Interface Tester
User Interface Designer
Web Producer
Website Manager
Webmaster
Website Content Manager
Search Engine Marketer
New Media Specialist
Business Operator

Graduate employment outcomes

The BCIT student outcomes report presents summary findings from the annual survey of former students administered by BC Stats one to two years after graduation. These reports combine the last three years of available results for the 2021-2023 BCIT Outcomes Surveys of 2020-2022 graduates and for Degree 2019-2021 graduates. The reports are organized into three-page summaries containing information on graduates’ labour market experiences and opinions regarding their education. More detailed information can be accessed at the BC Student Outcomes website.

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Apply for graduation

Upon successful completion of all program requirements, complete an Application for BCIT Credential [PDF] and submit it to Student Information and Enrolment Services.

Allow approximately six to eight weeks for processing.

All financial obligations to the Institute must be met prior to issuance of any credential.

Faculty, Advisors & Staff

BCIT recruits qualified faculty who have an ability to connect and communicate effectively with students.

Our instructors enjoy working with people, have industry experience, successful teaching experience at the post secondary level, and may have a master’s degree or specialized competency in the area of their expertise. Some have actually written the texts and case books you will be using in your studies.

Staff

Paul Sawyer
Flexible Learning Media Coordinator
Email: Paul_R_Sawyer@bcit.ca

Faculty

Mary Anne Conforti
Mike Walton
Janice Wood

Contact Us

Aimee Chung
Flexible Learning Coordinator – Digital Arts, Media and Design

Contact a Flexible Learning Program Advisor with the BCIT program name in the subject line if you have a question about:

Course selection and program planning
Declaring your program
Making changes to your approved program plan
Applying for transfer credit and advanced placement
Laddering options
Job placement and graduate outcomes
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Questions or comments?

Programs and courses are subject to change without notice.

Web Technologies

Overview

About the program

Who should complete the Web Technologies Certificate?

What grads can do

Entrance Requirements

About Flexible Learning

Application processing

Entrance requirements

International applicants

Program declaration

Scheduled Intakes

Prior Learning Assessment & Recognition (PLAR)

Costs & Supplies

Tuition fees

Courses

Important updates to Flexible Learning

Program matrix

Transfer credit

Program Details

Grading

Program delivery

Program location

Graduating & Jobs

Graduate employment outcomes

Apply for graduation

Faculty, Advisors & Staff

Staff

Faculty

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