Fundamentals of Web Design

An effective website is central to the marketing and operations of any organisation. This course teaches you the basics of web design and maintenance using Microsoft FrontPage and will give you the confidence to take on website development or update projects Course Outline: World-wide basics: How the World Wide Web works. URLs and domain names. Web servers. Microsoft FrontPage: Introduction. Preparation. Working from a brief. Producing a site map. Preparation: Working from a brief. Producing a site map. Shared borders and navigation bars. Creating a new website: Starting a new web. Creating and saving pages. Saving page properties. Importing and exporting text. Website graphics: Adding graphics. Making image background transparent. Types of image files. Pixels and screen resolutions. Hyperlinks: Links between pages. Links to external sites. Links to e-mail and other files. Links to a mid-point in the page. Using tables: Adding tables and setting table properties Other document formats: Converting from Office documents. FrontPage bots: Include bot, site search bot and page counter bot. Publishing the Website: Upload to FrontPage servers. Using FTP. Test and debugging. Updating the site – adding pages. Checking for and fixing broken lines. Techniques for promoting your site: Site statistics