Web Design and Development

Web Design and Development
C&G Beginners to Intermediate Web Page Design - 24 weeks part time (1 evening per week)

C&G Beginners Web Design
This course is designed to equip students with the basic skills and knowledge to be able to learn to manipulate text and styles using a web development application package such as Expression Web.

At the end of the course students should be able to:
Describe features of a web page and web page development.
Use application tools to create style features for text, images, and pages, including simple tables and hyperlinks.
Use graphics software to create and manipulate images for web pages.

An application package such as Microsoft Expression Web will be used in this course, students are not required to have prior knowledge of this program or to own it. Graphics software may be used as part of a web page. Relevant basic manipulation will not cover topics such as removing unwanted objects from photographs.

C&G Intermediate to Advanced Web Design
This course is designed to equip students with the skills and knowledge to be able to create and maintain simple web sites, involving user interaction. Students should have completed the beginners' course, or have equivalent skills.

At the end of the course students should be able to:
Develop a variety of skills that are needed to build web-sites, including communication between a web-user and the web site.
Build an internet-based database and allow website users to access it, making queries, and editing or changing data.
Review database design techniques, analyse user requirements.
Develop and implement test plans for publishing a web site.
Have an opportunity to gain qualifications for web-production.
Be prepared for study for CIW foundation level.