Roscommon
Higher
Education
Centre

Trojan Building

Elphin Street

Boyle, Co. Roscommon

Phone: 071 966 4510

Fax: 071 966 2909

info@roscommonhec.com

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Web Design and Development

 

This course is aimed at those who have an interest in Web Design. The course will enable participants to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to design and develop their own web site. By the end of the course, participants will have developed  their own web site.

 

Duration

14 weeks

Mondays  7 pm—9:30 pm

 

Outline

Good web site design principles

Determine the audience and purpose of the site

Web site organisation best practices

Create a table of contents, site map, and workflow diagrams

Describe and implement different navigation schemes to link web pages

Web Page Creation

Use HTML tags to prepare text for web page viewing

Create web documents incorporating text and graphic elements

Arrange backgrounds, colours, and fonts

Utilize tables to enhance page layout

Apply frames to assist navigation

Create and use style sheets to customise web page layout

Place an email link in a web page

Multimedia Content

Create image-maps, buttons, and logos

Graphic file formats, settings and suitability

Thumbnails and picture galleries

Simple animation techniques

Use Photoshop Elements to edit images

Hosting, Maintaining and Updating a Website

Domain names

Purchasing space to host a website

Hit counters

 

Prerequisite

A solid foundation in the general use of computers.

 

Cost

€390

 

Funding Availability

Funding may be available. Please contact us for details.

 

 

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