HTML & Web Design Training Course (Intro)

Web development has made huge advances in the past 5 years as far as accessibility and user friendliness are concerned. Previously, only individuals who were highly skilled in web development could host, create and manage websites, but with the proliferation of easy to use platforms like WordPress, creating websites has never been easier.

Developing some of the fundamental skills in web design, namely HTML and CSS, we can create websites from the bottom up and customise every aspect of it. HTML and web design can be a fundamental skill in creating websites for many different job roles.

To understand HTML and web design (Hyper Text Mark-up Language) we develop functional and fundamental skills, starting with HTML and CSS, the scripting languages of the internet. The web design training course is tailored to individuals who have little or no understanding of web development but would like to maintain a website.

The training course is hands-on and practically oriented. The course introduces the candidate to web design tools and the web design process. This will give you the very basics that will enable you to design and create a web-site.

Course Content:

This course will cover the following:

• Introduction to HTML – What is HTML and how is it used to create websites. How to use tags and other aspects of scripting.
• Design of Web Pages in HTML – Understand how a web page is laid out in HTML and how to create a website using HTML and CSS alone.
• How to style pages in HTML – Understanding how to add colour and styles to a web page
• Introduction to CSS – How to use Cascading Style Sheet to manage your web site styles.
• Introduction to helpful HTML design tools – The kinds of tools that are available to help people create and maintain websites.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course learners will be able to:

• Create a basic web page in HTML including; hyperlinks, pictures, text and header content
• Style the page using CSS
• Think about aspects of SEO and Social Media when creating a website
• Understand what tools are available for use to help with web design
• How to make your website appeal to visitors and encourage return visits.