Mercury.tvu.ac.uk offers the following Web Design SKills course online. It is very comprehensive and covers many of the critical aspects of designing and building a web site.
Learning Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this module will be able to:
1. Create simple web pages using raw HTML with an appreciation of html standards.
2. Create simple web pages using a design package and relate these to the resulting HTML code
3. Design, build and publish a small website.
Content of this Free Web Design Skills Training Course:
– Creating web pages from raw HTML.
– Using web design tools (e.g. Dreamweaver).
– Publishing on the web.
– Incorporating images, links, rollovers, sound/video, lists, frames, javascript.
– Using style sheets.
– Web style guidelines.
– Checking pages using W3C validation process.
– Incorporating basic accessibility principles.
Free Web Design Skills Training Course:
mercury.tvu.ac.uk/wds/index.html
Session 1 – Module introduction, Using a browser:
mercury.tvu.ac.uk/wds/week1.html
Session 2 – Design tools – Introduction, Site planning and Management:
mercury.tvu.ac.uk/wds/week2.html
Session 3 – Structure of HTML, Common tags, Construction of a simple web page in HTML:
mercury.tvu.ac.uk/wds/week3.html
Session 4 – Images, hyperlinks. Construct two linked pages:
mercury.tvu.ac.uk/wds/week4.html
Session 5 – Style sheets – introduction:
mercury.tvu.ac.uk/wds/week5.html
Session 6 – Some Design Considerations:
mercury.tvu.ac.uk/wds/week6.html
Session 7 – Layout techniques: tables:
mercury.tvu.ac.uk/wds/week7.html
Session 8 – Text and images/rollovers:
mercury.tvu.ac.uk/wds/week8.html
Session 9 – Further style sheets:
mercury.tvu.ac.uk/wds/week9.html
Session 10 – Incorporating multimedia content:
mercury.tvu.ac.uk/wds/week10.html
Session 11 – Layout techniques: frames:
mercury.tvu.ac.uk/wds/week11.html
Session 12 – Javascript:
mercury.tvu.ac.uk/wds/week12.html
Session 13 – FTP and validation (W3C):
mercury.tvu.ac.uk/wds/week13.html
Session 14 – Accessibility considerations:mercury.tvu.ac.uk/wds/week14.html