Details
ALISON’s free online Diploma in Web Design course is ideal if you’ve always wanted to create your own website but lacked the skills or knowledge to do so. Aimed at both the novice and intermediate web-designer, this comprehensive, easy-to-understand course
will enhance your understanding of web development tools and techniques.
Topics covered include the essential tools for web page development including HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Adobe Dreamweaver. It also examines the practical steps needed to build a website such as registering a domain name and choosing a hosting
account.
On completion of the ALISON free online course, you can obtain a Diploma-level qualification to enhance your skill set, resume and career prospects.
To qualify for your official ALISON Diploma, Certificate or PDF you must study and complete all modules and score 80% or more in each of the course assessments. A link to your Diploma certificate will then appear under the My Certificates heading of your My Account page.
LEARNING OUTCOMESLearn web design and upon completion of this course you will know how to create an HTML page and add content and images, links, tables and lists. You will have a good understanding of the meaning of inheritance, cascade, pseudo classes, pseudo elements and selectors which are concepts that are commonly used in web pages. You will become familiar with using font, background styles and style sheets. This course will help you use Adobe Dreamweaver to create a website with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Flash. It will help you to understand naming conventions, index files, welcome screen, graphical user interface (GUI) and many more settings that are useful when creating a website successfully.
Outline
Cascading Style Sheets - Style Web Pages
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 - Create Web Pages and Web Sites
Build a Web site: Introduction
Build a Web site: Domain names and hosting account explained
Build a Web site: Creating Web pages
Build a Web site: Links, images and formatting
Build a Web site: Publishing a Web page
Assessment
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Whether you are seeking a new job, a promotion, a college place or starting a new business, ALISON empowers you to improve your economic and personal circumstances, and through you, that of the community you live in.
New skills and knowledge makes you a more valuable employee, whether working for yourself, for an employer, or future employer. With today’s workplace changing faster than ever, it is essential everyone keeps learning new and updating old skills to remain or become competitive in the workplace. ALISON is for anyone taking their first step to a new or better job. ALISON is as individual as you are.
