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Enrollment for this course has closed. But you can enroll in a future offering (please select)
Not available for purchase in India
In today’s digitally connected world, an engaging, distinctive website is a necessity for artists, musicians, designers, and creators. This course provides an introduction to website design and development for artists, providing the tools to create and maintain a unique online identity. In this course, you will learn how to build a custom website for your online artistic presence and portfolio, and how to leverage content management systems to develop and manage your site. You will also learn how to customize your site further with HTML, CSS, and PHP, three building blocks of the modern Web. This class will teach essential skills for designing and organizing your website, so you can create a site that is both visually distinctive and engaging. Over weekly assignments, you will develop an actual, live website from simple HTML to a full-featured site with galleries, analytics, social media integration, and other advanced features.
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Below you will find an overview of the Learning Outcomes you will achieve as you complete this course.
• Understanding of basic principles of design.
• Ability in high-level layout of Web pages.
• Understanding of how to use design parameters such as grids, hierarchy, color, type, size, and contrast.
• Familiarity with major contemporary design trends.
• Ability to install and customize content themes.
• Ability to set up basic website security
• Understanding of how to use plugins for social media integration, analytics, and other features.
• Advanced Web development skills to add flair and professionalism to your site
• Understanding of the basic mechanics of the Web.
• Ability to create and manage a domain name and hosting website.
• Understanding of Web languages like HTML, CSS, and PHP.
• Ability to install, configure, and maintain content management tools.
Spencer Salazar is a computer musician and researcher currently serving as Special Faculty at the California Institute of the Arts School of Music. His research and teaching is focused on mobile music software, systems for music programming, and computer-based music ensembles. Previously he pursued his doctoral studies at Stanford CCRMA, where his dissertation research concerned a modular sketch-based programming system for computer music. He has also created new software and hardware interfaces for the ChucK audio programming language, prototyped consumer electronics for Microsoft, and architected large-scale social music interactions for Smule, an iPhone application developer. He received a Bachelor of Science and Engineering in Computer Science from Princeton University in 2006 and received a Doctor of Philosophy degree (Ph.D.) in Computer-based Music Theory and Acoustics from Stanford University in 2017.
Please note: Taking part in a Kadenze course as a Premium Member, does not affirm that the student has been enrolled or accepted for enrollment by California Institute of the Arts.
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