
Web Development Certificate (EITCA/WD) positions individuals as experts in state-of-the-art techniques of front-end and back-end Web Development with professional competencies including areas of web design, content management systems and foundations of web programming, with particular focus on HTML and CSS, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL, Webflow visual web designer (along with Webflow CMS content management system and Webflow eCommerce), WordPress CMS (with Elementor builder, WooCommerce WordPress eCommerce platform and LearnDash LMS learning management system), Google Web Designer, as well as fundamentals of Google Cloud Platform.
EITCA/WD Web Development Academy Certification is an EU based, internationally recognized standard of competences attestation, systematizing theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the field of Web Development. It supports implementation of the European Commission’s Digital Agenda for Europe policy upon Europe 2020 Strategy in digital competencies dissemination and certification.
Web Development is currently considered one of the most important fields of digital technologies with huge market demand (significantly driving jobs demand in the whole IT sector) associated with dynamic growth of World Wide Web. Companies, institutions and organizations all over the world constantly upgrade and expand their web services, web portals and web pages. The web presence and web based communication are currently replacing other traditional business and communication channels. Expertise in web design (including visual technologies and programming) as well as in content management systems administration guarantees high-pay jobs and fast career development options due to deficiencies of web development professionals and web development skill gaps. Web design and web building techniques have significantly evolved during the recent years in favour of visual web builders, such as Webflow, Google Web Designer or Elementor (a web builder plugin working with WordPress CMS). On the other hand professional competencies in foundations of web programming languages such as (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) for so called front-end web development, as well as PHP and MySQL database management system programming for so called back-end web development, enable experts to easily customize, extend and refine the results obtained with faster to use visual tools. Static web sites are almost entirely replaced nowadays by advanced CMS content management systems that allow to easily scale and develop on an ongoing basis once deployed web portals (with vast configuration options, high level of automation and magnitudes of plugins or modules extending standard functionalities). One of the dominating CMS currently is an open-source WordPress system, which allows not only to build advanced web portals but also integrates domains of eCommerce (online selling systems for internet shops or other commercial platforms) or learning management systems (LMS). All these fields are covered by the EITCA/WD Web Development integrating expertise in both front-end and back-end web development.
Web development is also a critical field of advancement in Internet technologies and generally in digital applications. The EITCA/WD Web Development Academy programme positions certified individuals as attested experts in state-of-the-art web development, including most recent and proven technologies and tools of front-end and back-end development. The EITCA/WD Certificate provides an attestation of professional competencies in the area designing, building and managing simple to complex web services (including eCommerce).
The EITCA/WD Academy Certification covers attestation of professional competencies in the areas of HTML and CSS fundamentals, JavaScript fundamentals, PHP and MySQL fundamentals, Webflow visual web designer (including Webflow CMS content management system and Webflow eCommerce), WordPress CMS (including Elementor builder, WooCommerce WordPress eCommerce platform and LearnDash LMS learning management system), Google Web Designer and Google Cloud Platform fundamentals. Obtaining the EITCA/WD Web Development attests acquiring knowledge and passing final exams of all of the 12 single European IT Certification (EITC) programmes constituting the full curriculum of the EITCA/WD Academy (also available separately as single EITC certifications). More details can be found on the How It Works page.