Digital Technology and Web Site Design

This course covers essential skills in designing, developing and managing web sites and enables participants to deliver swiftly global class web sites as a business or profession.

This is a 3 month course but there is an option to extend to an advanced level for a further 3 months

Course Content

This course incorporates the foundational principles of web design with experiential activities relevant to the process of designing and producing static and dynamic Web sites:

• Basic to intermediate skills in web design are covered and with an emphasis on WordPress as the leading technology.
• The importance of design elements, accessibility, usability and functionality will be examined to demonstrate how they affect visual and text content.
• Application activities involving HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and web design industry tools such as code editing and image manipulating software will launch the student’s professional portfolio project.
• Planning, delivering and managing a typical web site project
• Use of creative content and aligning the messages the site delivers with the customer’s needs