The Diploma in Web Design course is ideal if you’ve always wanted to create your own website but lacked the skills or knowledge to do so. Aimed at both the novice and intermediate web-designer, this comprehensive, easy-to-understand course will enhance your understanding of web development tools and techniques.

Topics covered include the essential tools for web page development including HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Adobe Dreamweaver. It also examines the practical steps needed to build a website such as registering a domain name and choosing a hosting account.

On completion of the Alison free online course, you can obtain a Diploma-level qualification to enhance your skill set, resume and career prospects.
Learn web design and upon completion of this web design course you will know how to create an HTML page and add content and images, links, tables and lists. You will have a good understanding of the meaning of inheritance, cascade, pseudo classes, pseudo elements and selectors which are concepts that are commonly used in web pages. You will become familiar with using font, background styles and style sheets. This web design course will help you use Adobe Dreamweaver to create a website with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Flash. It will help you to understand naming conventions, index files, welcome screen, graphical user interface (GUI) and many more settings that are useful when creating a website successfully.
All Alison courses are free to study. To successfully complete a course you must score 80% or higher in each course assessments. Upon successful completion of a course, you can choose to make your achievement formal by purchasing an official Alison Diploma or Certificate.

Having an official Alison document is a great way to celebrate and share your success. It is:
- Ideal to include with CVs, job applications and portfolios
- A way to show your ability to learn and achieve high results

Modules List( 9 )

Module 1: HTML Coding - Learn how to create Web p...
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1 HTML Coding - Create Web pages
- HTML Coding - Create Web pagesThis free online course is an introduction to HTML coding. You will learn in a step-by-step manner how to create basic Web pages, and Web page elements such as lists, links and tables.The Contents tab displays all the lessons and topics of the course. Each time you click the Contents tab, you will come to this page. A green tick indicates those lessons and topics you have completed, so you can easily see your progress.
- Learn basic HTML
  
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Module 2: CSS - Learn how to style and format Web...
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2 Cascading Style Sheets - Style Web Pages
- Cascading Style Sheets- Style Web PagesThis free online course describes Cascading Style Sheets. You will learn in a step-by-step manner how to style Web pages, and covers topics such as external and internal style sheets, styling Web pages elements such as the background, fonts, borders etc., inheritance and what the cascade is, and the use of selectors when styling Web pages.The Contents tab displays all the lessons and topics of the course. Each time you click the Contents tab, you will come to this page. A green tick indicates those lessons and topics you have completed, so you can easily see your progress.
- Styles and style sheets
  
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- Background styles
  
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- Font styles
  
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- Selectors
  
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- Pseudoclasses and pseudoelements
  
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- Inheritance and the cascade
  
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Module 3: Adobe Dreamweaver - Create Web pages an...
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3 Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 - Create Web Pages and Web Sites
- Adobe Dreamweaver- Create Web Pages and Web SitesThis free online course reviews Adobe Dreamweaver. You will learn in a step-by-step manner how to create basic Web pages, and Web page elements such as lists, links and tables, and how to build Web pages into a functioning Web site.The Contents tab displays all the lessons and topics of the course. Each time you click the Contents tab, you will come to this page. A green tick indicates those lessons and topics you have completed, so you can easily see your progress.
- Introduction to Dreamweaver
  
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- More about Dreamweaver
  
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- Advanced features of Dreamweaver
  
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Module 4: Build a Web Site - Learn how to get a d...
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4 Build a Web site: Introduction
- Build a Web site: IntroductionThis free online course is an introduction to Create Your First Website. You will find out what this course is about, how a Web page works, and what terms you will need to know.The Contents tab displays all the lessons and topics of the course. Each time you click the Contents tab, you will come to this page. A green tick indicates those lessons and topics you have completed, so you can easily see your progress.
- Introduction to the course
  
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- What you will learn
  
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- How a Web page works
  
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- Terms you need to know
  
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5 Build a Web site: Domain names and hosting account explained
- Build a Web site: Domain names and hosting account explainedThis free online course covers how to purchase a domain name for a Web site, how to set up a hosting account for a Web site, and explains what nameservers are.The Contents tab displays all the lessons and topics of the course. Each time you click the Contents tab, you will come to this page. A green tick indicates those lessons and topics you have completed, so you can easily see your progress.
- Choosing a domain name
  
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- Purchasing a domain name Part 1
  
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- Purchasing a domain name Part 2
  
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- Hosting accounts explained
  
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- Purchasing a hosting account
  
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- Hosting details confirmed
  
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- Nameservers explained
  
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- Changing nameservers
  
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6 Build a Web site: Creating Web pages
- Build a Web site: Creating Web pagesThis free online course describes how to set up a project folder for your Web site and how to use a Web page editing software program to create Web pages.The Contents tab displays all the lessons and topics of the course. Each time you click the Contents tab, you will come to this page. A green tick indicates those lessons and topics you have completed, so you can easily see your progress.
- Introduction to a Web editor
  
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- Downloading a Web editor
  
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- Tour of a Web editor
  
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- What is an Index page?
  
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- Creating a project folder
  
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- Saving files correctly
  
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- Formatting text
  
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7 Build a Web site: Links, images and formatting
- Build a Web site: Links, images and formattingThis free online course covers the use of links, such as internal, external and anchor links, how to obtain images and resize them, and how to format Web pages.The Contents tab displays all the lessons and topics of the course. Each time you click the Contents tab, you will come to this page. A green tick indicates those lessons and topics you have completed, so you can easily see your progress.
- Introduction to links
  
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- Creating links Part 1
  
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- Creating links Part 2
  
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- Formatting a Web page correctly
  
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- Adding colour
  
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- Images explained
  
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- Obtaining images
  
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- Resizing images
  
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- Downloading free image resizing software
  
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- Saving images correctly
  
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- Inserting images into a Web page
  
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- Aligning text and images correctly
  
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- Aligning text in a table correctly
  
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8 Build a Web site: Publishing a Web page
- Build a Web site: Publishing a Web pageThis free online course describes how to publish Web pages so that they appear online. It also discusses three common problems that may occur when publishing Web pages. Finally, it introduces autoresponders and how to use Web page templates.The Contents tab displays all the lessons and topics of the course. Each time you click the Contents tab, you will come to this page. A green tick indicates those lessons and topics you have completed, so you can easily see your progress.
- Publishing explained
  
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- Publishing your first Web page
  
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- The 3 most common publishing problems
  
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- Putting everything together Part 1
  
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- Putting everything together Part 2
  
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- Creating a second Web page
  
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- Creating a third Web page
  
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- Linking your Web pages together
  
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- Introduction to autoresponders
  
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- Using templates
  
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- Final words
  
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Assessment - Score 80% or more and you can obtain...
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- Diploma in Web Development Assessment
  
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Extra Resources - Includes additional course info...
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Diploma in Web Design

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