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Best Web Design Courses for 2023
- Published on January 2, 2023

The web design experts at American Graphics Institute has assembled a list of the 9 best web design courses for 2023. This includes both online web design courses and in-person web design classes with live instructors, as well as free web design tutorials. The list includes introduction, intermediate, and advanced web design classes to cover the needs of beginner through advanced learners. Our expert instructors who are the authors of multiple books on web design and web coding have assembled this list of the best ways for you to learn web design and provide information about each web design course, class and tutorial. This has been updated for 2023.
Best Web Design Courses and Classes for 2023
Web Design Certificate
UX for Web Design Design Course
Web Design with WordPress Class: Introduction
Web Design with WordPress Class: Advanced
WordPress Web Design Bootcamp
UX Certificate
Web Design with HTML Class
Web Design using Advanced HTML Class
Web Design CSS Training Course
The 9 Best Web Design Courses
Web Design Certificate
Students who enroll in this web design course learn both design and coding schools. Participants learn to use web design tools and fundamental coding skills used by modern industry professionals. This program consists of 11 independent web design courses and results in a certificate upon completion. The courses use hands-on work to teach participants how to create, deploy, and maintain websites. Participants in this web design course finish the program with a web design portfolio and work with a career counselor for job placement.
Benefits of the Web Design Certificate:
Learn all stages of the user experience (UX) design process
Use HTML, XHTML, and CSS to create websites
Explore WordPress and Photoshop
Create web graphics and email campaigns
Complete a web design project
Build a portfolio for career placement
Format: Live program meets at scheduled times either online or in person
UX Design Course for Web Design
A critical web design skill is learning user experience (UX) design. This two-day web design course is focused on learning the user experience design process and related terminology. New web design students, existing business analysts, product managers, developers, and designers study how early stages of research translate to final designs through hands-on exercises exploring space, form, and function. There are no prerequisites for this web design design class focused on UX..
Benefits of the web design course for learning UX Design:
Choose your own course project (app, website, or concept)
Create scenarios to understand user needs
Define features, sketch navigation, storyboard, and create basic information architecture
Learn the principles of typography
Gather input and reactions
Explore types of UX testing
Format: Live class meets at scheduled times either online or in person
Student review: “The professor was amazing with her understanding of UX and how it can be applied. Kept things moving, but there was space for questions and interaction. The size of the class was perfect. The facilities and materials all worked very well.” - Erin D.
Introduction to WordPress Class for Web Design
In this two-day introductory WordPress course, participants learning web design explore the content management system’s default theme and learn how to customize it. Lessons include formatting and organizing content, creating links, moderating comments, and more. This WordPress course starts with basics and is tailored for beginners and individuals with limited experience in the field of web design.
Benefits of the introductory WordPress training class for web design:
Learn to customize WordPress dashboards
Explore the visual, appearance, and HTML editors
Change the status and visibility of posts
Add content including text, images, and video to a WordPress site
Create custom comment settings
Install, edit, and delete plugins
Define user roles and permissions
Format: Live class meets at scheduled times either online or in person
Student review: “[The instructor] was exceptional in his delivery, knowledge and organization. Also, he was patient and open to our questions throughout the class, no matter the level. This WordPress course was informative and [the instructor] made it entertaining and useful at the same time for all students involved. All 5-stars, awesome, clear, useful, and he already provided so many resources. The quality of the course was outstanding." - Ana E.
Advanced WordPress Class for Web Design
If you are familiar with WordPress, have a fundamental understanding of HTML and CSS, and are looking to expand your web design skills, this two-day advanced WordPress class is a good fit for you. Those completing this web design course using WordPress will be able to fully develop and manage their own WordPress websites by sharpening their skills through practice. Topics covered include building web pages, customizing themes, and utilizing plugins.
Benefits of the advanced WordPress Training Class for web design::
Customize WordPress themes
Customize themes using the web inspector tool
Learn about search engine optimization
Create development WordPress sites for testing
Get feedback specific to your site
Troubleshoot issues
Format: Live class meets at scheduled times either online or in person
Student review: “The instructor did an excellent job with presenting the WordPress material and making certain that the students were understanding everything. He also focused more on the areas that the students needed and wanted. I feel like I'm at a place where I can really use my WordPress skills. They provided us with a lot of great resources going forward and he emailed us additional training notes.” - Tony B.
WordPress Bootcamp for web design
For those learning web design who want to understand all that WordPress has to offer as a content management system, this four-day intensive is a good fit. Participants in this web design with wordpress bootcamp study foundational skills in combination with advanced techniques. Students learn how to set up their website, install themes, upload media, and troubleshoot issues in this hands-on class.
Benefits of the WordPress Bootcamp for web design:
Learn to create WordPress sites
Discover how to use plugins and themes
Learn about media metadata and the uploading process
Change the status and visibility of posts
Set default behaviors for comments and establish an approval process
Explore user roles and permissions
Add, edit, order, and delete pages
Format: Live class meets at scheduled times either online or in person
UX Certificate for Web Design
Learn to specialize in the web design field of user experience design in this multiweek program. Participants learn to organize and present information and navigation for users of websites and apps. All web design classes focused on UX provide significant hands-on work for individuals who design across a variety of devices. Upon completion of this program, AGI’s career counseling staff provides placement assistance to program graduates. Admission for both full- and part-time programs is rolling.
Benefits of the UX Certificate for web design:
Learn all stages of the user experience design process
Organize and structure content according assist users in their navigation
Prototype and test designs
Use Illustrator and Photoshop to create UX assets
Work with HTML and CSS to create web pages
Create responsive sites that render across mobile devices, tablets, and desktops
Format: Live program meets at scheduled times either online or in person
HTML Training Class for web design
The foundation for all web design is HTML. It is essential for web designers to know the foundations of web coding with HTML and CSS, even when working with a content management system such as WordPress or working in a web design role focused on UX. In this two-day web design class, students learn fundamental HTML and CSS coding skills to establish their own capabilities through exercises and practice. In addition to mastering the tools necessary for building and maintaining websites, participants in this web design course also learn the industry’s best practices.
Benefits of the HTML Training Class for web design:
Review web standards, hosting, and service providers
Utilize wireframing and storyboarding to plan information architecture
Use styles to define the information hierarchy of a website
Learn the aesthetic values of grid layouts and how they function online
Create a wireframe layout
Design for mobile and other devices
Format: Live class meets at scheduled times either online or in person
Student review: “The HTML training was really good. The instructor would follow up with a student’s question to confirm if he answered the question or not. I thought that was a great teaching technique demonstrating commitment to ensure learning. The instructor was extremely responsive with resolving questions or coding glitches.” -Carolle N.
Web Design with Advanced HTML & CSS3
This course is for web designers that plan to build their own websites and will be coding websites using HTML and CSS. This class covers the sectioning elements, video, audio, accessibility CSS3, local storage, geolocation and other advanced topics.
Benefits of the Web Design with Advanced HTML Class:
Create advanced HTML forms
Work with video and audio tags
Explore the canvas element and stye HTML elements
Improve accessibility while building websites
Format: Live class meets at scheduled times either online or in person
Student review: “This advanced HTML class was my favorite class ever! Every student I talked with agreed that this was by far the most important, informative, and fun class we have taken. This was absolutely advanced HTML and CSS. Everything we learned in this class is truly invaluable. This is the class that will help me advance with my career goals.” - Wendy J.
Web Design using CSS Training Course
This course provides foundational web design skills with an introduction to using selectors, cascading, inheritance, and other CSS capabilities. This web design course teaches participants how to style text and position content, while also gaining a better understanding of how CSS works. This course is a good follow-up to the introductory web design course.
Benefits of the introductory CSS Training Course:
Learn the fundamentals and anatomy of CSS
Use selectors, cascading, and inheritance
Utilize embedded and external style sheets
Style text and backgrounds
Position content with padding, alignment, and floats
Combine CSS and HTML to make complete layouts
Format: Live class meets at scheduled times either online or in person
Student review: “[The instructor] really did a phenomenal job with the CSS class. He's well spoken and his instructions were very easy to understand. I had no problem following along whatsoever and he was very helpful whenever one of us had a problem. I really was pleasantly surprised by how engaging this course was. I will certainly recommend AGI classes to others.” - Victoria J.
About the author
Christopher Smith is president of American Graphics Institute. He is the co-author of Adobe Creative Cloud for Dummies and more than 10 other books on design and digital publishing. He served as publisher and editor of the Digital Classroom book series, which has sold more than one million books on topics relating to InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro and other Creative Cloud apps. At American Graphics Institute, he provides strategic technology consulting to marketing professionals, publishers designers, and large technology companies including Google, Apple, Microsoft, and HP. An expert on web analytics and digital marketing, he also delivers Google Analytics classes along with workshops on digital marketing topics. Christopher did his undergraduate studies the at the University of Minnesota, and then worked for Quark, Inc. prior to joining American Graphics Institute where he has worked for more than 20 years.