Diploma in Website Design – Your Website is Your First Impression You give to Potential Customers
Course Overview
Our Diploma in Web Design has been created to bring you up to speed on a variety of skills and techniques required to improve your career prospects as a professional web designer or even just to acquire the necessary skills to manage your own website.
This course will also explore Graphic Design, with a particular focus on logo creation and image editing.
You will be taken step-by-step through the basics of creating, firstly a single webpage and ultimately a complete website, using the mark-up language HTML 5, while managing the site’s overall styling using CSS3.
Once you are sufficiently proficient in creating a simple website using these languages, we will then explore Content Management Systems, this journey will show you just how easy it is to manage your own website using the most suitable software for your business.
We will also look at how best to manage where your website appears in Google searches and just how to manipulate this ranking. Your site’s customer profile will be addressed and where is best to focus your attention.
Suitable for
- Sole Traders who require help to manage their business
- Small to Medium Enterprises who require help to improve their online presence
- People responsible for their company’s online presence
- Employees who want to further develop their career in Web Design
- Students who want to add website design to their profession
Diploma in Website Design Course Content: An Introduction to HTML & CSS
Learn just what is HTML and how do we create webpages. Where do we write the code and how does it all turn into a website?
Create a Simple Website using HTML5 & CSS3
Create a simple webpage with HTML5 and then style your page using CSS3. Add various important elements to your webpage including a menu so that further pages can then be added later.
Logo Design for Website
Design a simple logo using Inkscape and discover the importance of a good logo in relation to your business.
Image Editing
Explore Gimp software and get an understanding of pixels and how to edit your images perfectly by resizing them, using filters to optimise them and all the necessary requirements for images in a professional looking website.
Explore the Content Management Systems Options
What are the best CMS tools available? The most popular website CMS software right now are WordPress, WIX and Squarespace. Decide which tools are best most suited to your needs and how to navigate your way around that software.
E-Commerce
Learn how to add an online shop to your website and then explore all of the ways to make the most of your shop by highlighting and promoting certain areas / products where you might want to focus customers attention.
SEO – Improve your Websites Google Ranking
Learn how to:
- Align your website’s content while considering peoples searches
- Write a compelling title tag and meta description
- Optimize your sites Images
- Optimize your web page speed
- Use internal site links
- Improve the web user experience
- Include keywords in URLs
Monitor Site visitors and learn where Best to Focus your Attention
Use the best website traffic analytical tools to understand how and where to focus your attention, get the maximum page hits and ultimately convert as many site visitors as possible to customers.
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