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Diploma in Web Design
Learn how to build a website, discover interesting web design tools, and start your path to becoming a web designer.
Description
Aimed at both the beginner and intermediate web designer, this comprehensive, easy-to-understand course will teach you the fundamentals of web development tools and techniques. The course will first guide you through the essential tools for web page development including HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Adobe Dreamweaver. You’ll be shown how to create a HTML page and then how to easily and quickly add content, images, links, tables and lists to it.
Next you will gain a full understanding of key concepts that are commonly used in web pages, including the meaning of inheritance, cascade, pseudo classes, pseudo elements and selectors. The course then guides you through the use of font, background styles and style sheets. You will then be shown how to use Adobe Dreamweaver to create a website with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Flash. Finally, you’ll learn about naming conventions, index files, welcome screens, and the graphical user interface (GUI), all of which are crucial settings for creating a website successfully.
On completion of the course, which takes less than 15 hours, you’ll obtain a Diploma-level qualification to enhance your skill set, résumé, and career prospects. While this course is short, every module is important, and each module builds on the last. Stick with it, and by the end you will be much closer to a career in web design, or just building your own website. These are highly valuable skills that you can use for the rest of your life. So why wait?
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Modules
HTML Coding - Create Web pages
Cascading Style Sheets - Style Web Pages
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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
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 - Create Web Pages and Web Sites
Build a Web site: Introduction
Build a Web site: Domain names and hosting account explained
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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
Build a Web site: Creating Web pages
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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
Build a Web site: Links, images and formatting
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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
Build a Web site: Publishing a Web page
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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
Assessment
Learning Outcomes
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.
Certification
All Alison courses are free to enrol, study and complete. To successfully complete this Diploma course and become an Alison Graduate, you need to achieve 80% or higher in each course assessment. Once you have completed this Diploma course, you have the option to acquire an official Diploma, which is a great way to share your achievement with the world. Your Alison Diploma is:
Ideal for sharing with potential employers - include it in your CV, professional social media profiles and job applications
An indication of your commitment to continuously learn, upskill and achieve high results
An incentive for you to continue empowering yourself through lifelong learning
Alison offers 3 types of Diplomas for completed Diploma courses:
Digital Diploma - a downloadable Diploma in PDF format, immediately available to you when you complete your purchase
Diploma - a physical version of your officially branded and security-marked Diploma, posted to you with FREE shipping
Framed Diploma - a physical version of your officially branded and security-marked Diploma in a stylish frame, posted to you with FREE shipping
All Diplomas are available to purchase through the Alison Shop. For more information on purchasing Alison Diplomas, please visit our FAQs. If you decide not to purchase your Alison Diploma, you can still demonstrate your achievement by sharing your Learner Record or Learner Achievement Verification, both of which are accessible from your Dashboard. For more details on our Diploma pricing, please visit our Pricing Page.
