Website Design Course
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Website Design Course

Learn how to design websites in a simplified manner.

Includes manuals and certifcates.

Small class sizes for optimum delegate-trainer interaction.

Key points about this course

Duration : 24 hours
Price : CAD 899

Website Design Course Overview

This course explains how to create web pages from scratch, by using different techniques such as HTML, CSS, Javascript and use of software like Dreamweaver. After completing our web design courses you would be able to create HTML websites.

The complete course is hands-on based. A practical web design project at the end of the course will ensure that you go through website creation process by planning, creating structure, coding, using different web design software, buying you website a domain name, hosting and uploading a website to a live server.

Website Design Course Outline

Introduction to creating websites

  • Introduction to HTML, CSS, JS and Dreamweaver

  • Web browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome)

  • Role of HTML in web development

HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)

  • HTML page structure

  • HTML tags

  • HTML attributes and values

  • View HTML web pages code

HTML Meta

  • What are HTML Meta tags

  • Role of HTML in search engine optimisation

  • HTML keywords and importance in SEO

HTML Text

  • Change the font of text

  • Define text colour and size

  • Use of Headings H1, H2, H3 etc

  • Creating superscripts and subscripts

HTML List

  • HTML ordered list

  • Unordered list

  • Use list items

  • Create a navigation with a list

HTML Links

  • How to create a link to another page

  • Connecting web pages using links

  • Define target for links

  • Create HTML anchors

  • Link to an anchor

  • Change link colour on mouse hover

  • Creating a link from an image

HTML Tables & Div

  • Creating an HTML table

  • Adding rows and columns to table

  • Defining padding and spacing

  • Adding table borders

  • Create table cell colour

  • Use images in tables

  • Create Div

  • Apply Div Colours

  • Defining width and height for Div

  • Float vs Clear

  • Use background colour for Div

Working with image in HTML

  • Create image links

  • The GIF, JPEG and PNG formats

  • Alternative text, titles and descriptions for images

HTML Multimedia

  • Creating a marquee

  • Adding video to web pages

  • Adding YouTube video to a web page

  • Adding a Google map to a web page

HTML Forms

  • Creating a form

  • Creating fieldsets and legends

  • Creating HTML Form text boxes

  • Creating password boxes

  • Using form Labels

  • Creating checkboxes

  • Creating List menus

  • How to create a file upload

  • Creating form submit button

  • Form reset button

CSS (cascading style sheet)

  • What is CSS?

  • Separating content from presentation

  • Role of CSS in web design courses

  • Inline vs embedded or external CSS

  • CSS structure

CSS in HTML

  • Applying style on one web page

  • Applying style on complete website

  • Defining styles for Classes

  • Style for HTML tags

  • Defining styles for links

Styling text using CSS

  • Styling text elements

  • Specifying font size and colour

  • Specifying font alignment

  • Choosing a font family

  • Specify font size

  • Setting the Line Height

  • Make text Italics

  • Use Bold Formatting

  • Underlining Text

  • Use text’s background

  • Word-spacing and Letter-spacing

Styling links using CSS

  • Creating hover effects

  • Keeping track of links

  • Create website navigation and page layout using CSS

  • How to use Div

  • Fluid, Fixes and Elastic layouts

  • Specify the height and width of an element

  • Specify the border, margin and padding around an element

  • Wrapping text around images

  • Use float and clear

  • Use background images for elements

  • CSS positions: static, relative, absolute, fixed

Publishing/Upload website

  • Selecting a Domain Name for your website

  • CPanel intro

  • Web Servers Introduction

  • Uploading and Downloading to and from your website

  • Protocols FTP, HTTP

HTML web page troubleshooting

  • Testing your website

  • Check HTML code

  • View code from browser

  • Use Firebug to inspect HTML web page elements

  • Markup and CSS Validation tools