Course details
Learning to design a website requires mastering many different skills from organizing the structure of the website, making sure it is easy to use and navigate, to designing the graphics and layout of the information. This part-time web design course concentrates on the fundamentals of building a website. It starts with the basics, using HTML code to build a basic site, giving the learner a solid foundation in how a website is designed. It then moves on to using a html editor - Adobe Dreamweaver - to design a website in a more user friendly environment.
Adobe Dreamweaver is the leading industry software in web designing and is used by the majority of major companies and organisations. It allows the user to design web page templates and style sheets which significantly reduces the time the web designer needs to spend on website design and maintenance. The final section of the web design course introduces the learner to Adobe Fireworks. Adobe Fireworks can be used to manipulate images, design rollover buttons and create a webpage layout which can be brought into Dreamweaver and used as a template for a website.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the Diploma in Web Design graduates will be able to:
- Use HTML to a competent level
- Design, construct and maintain Web pages and a Web site
- Support the building, testing and refining of Web pages and sites
Modules
- Introduction to HTML
- Using Adobe Dreamweaver
- Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Integrating Adobe Fireworks with Dreamweaver
- SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and FTP (Uploading)
Elements of Web Design:
- Introduction to the common language behind Web Pages
- Create a website using HTML
- Change the title bar of the web page
- Change the background of a web page
- Add text to a web page
- Change font, font size and font colour
- Email links
- Internal Links
- External Links
- Insert a picture
HTML:
- Introduction to the common language behind most WebPages
- Create a website using HTML
- Change the title bar of the web page
- Change the background of a web page
- Add text to a web page
- Change font, font size and font colour
- Email links
- Internal Links
- External Links
- Insert a picture
Adobe Dreamweaver:
- This is a professional web-editing package and is used quite a lot in the web industry.
- Defining a Site
- Change the title bar of the web page
- Change the background of a web page
- Add text to a web page
- Change font, font size and font colour
- Working with AnchorsEmail links
- Internal Links
- External Links
- Insert a picture
- Resize an image
- Saving Images
- Adding Alt text to images
- Working with tables
- Changing table properties
Adobe Fireworks:
- Learning the basics of how to use an image package.
- Optimise an image file
- Create your own logo
- Resize an image
Good site Management:
- Importance of managing internet files and folders.
- Naming files properly
- Naming folders properly
- Saving images to the correct folder
- Saving pages to the correct folder
FTP:
- Uploading & Downloading to the internet.
- Connecting to a remote server
- Managing your files on the remote server
- Transferring files to a remote server
- Updating files on the remote server
- Deleting files on the remote server
Search Engines & Meta Tags:
- Introduction to SEO - Search Engine Optimisation
- What are Meta tags?
- Where to add them in your website
- How to add your website to search engines
Assessment
To be awarded the Diploma in Web Design participants will be required to successfully complete project work (100%).
Career Opportunities
Upon completion of the IBAT College Dublin Diploma in Web Design course, students will be able to design a basic website and maintain and update existing websites. They will have a good understanding of how HTML works, be competent using Dreamweaver and be able to do some basic image manipulation in Fireworks. As businesses move online it is becoming increasingly important that marketing and sales functions particularly have an understanding of the basic principles of web development and can update information about their product and or/services online.
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About IBAT College Dublin
IBAT College Dublin is Ireland's leading Industry-focused third level institution. It provides a perfect blend of high quality undergraduate, postgraduate and professional education with a state-of-the-art learning environment in a range of subject areas including Business, Accounting, ICT and Management. Established in 2004 in Swords, Co. Dublin, IBAT College Dublin opened a new campus in 2011 in the heart of the city centre, theyllington Quay in Temple Bar. This modern, purpose build campus houses five floors of teaching and learning facilities including classrooms, auditorium, IT labs, library, MBA debating chamber, student recreation and study areas with high speed Wi-Fi throughout.
Education is critical to Ireland’s regeneration and future success. It demands a new approach, an approach that can innovate and evolve at the same pace as business and technology; a model that espouses the highest quality education and focuses on equipping students with the knowledge and skills they need to progress in their chosen career or upskill and retrain where necessary to ensure they can stay ahead in their field. IBAT College Dublin pioneers this new model of education. It emerges from and represents the entrepreneurial, ambitious and pragmatic new culture that will drive Ireland back to international success by creating a practical and innovative knowledge economy.
At IBAT College Dublin, they pride theirselves in how they guide, support and mentor their students throughout their college experience and into their working lives. their smaller class sizes make for a more interactive and personal learning environment and allowing the practical as theyll as academic side of ctheirse material to be fully explored. Employers need graduates that can hit the ground running and their students enjoy some of the most applied ctheirse content and teaching techniques in the country. IBAT College Dublin has links with over 400 private enterprises, public organisations and NGOs in Ireland, including small to medium sized indigenous businesses and also multinational corporations. A key objective of IBAT College Dublin is to ensure students have a positive, useful and engaging experience during their period of study. One of their biggest strengths is their people. The Academic team at IBAT College Dublin present with significant lecturing experience and also have many years industry experience. they understand the challenges that exist within industry, their priority is to ensure that their graduates are fully prepared to differentiate themselves in the workplace when they graduate.
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