Web design using Wordpress - Introduction
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In London
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London
This is a 10wk, 20hour web design training course where students learn how to use Wordpress, a modern content management system for web technology. You will use CSS to edit styles of pages, texts and ...
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Subjects
- IT
- Web
- Design
- E-commerce
Course programme
- How to design and publish a website and online store (e-commerce) site using Wordpress CMS
- How to install Wordpress
- How to install or change a theme
- How to add e-commerce store and products
- Create custom pages and edit font size, colour and weight of paragraphs and header texts
- CSS: To edit pages , buttons, links, style, colours, fonts
- Html: To add functionality such as buttons, links and drop down menus
- Javascript: To change or add functionality to the Wordpress theme
- Plugins for various types of functionality such as contact forms, upload of files to site by users
- Create and edit posts
- Link your site to your Facebook and Twitter accounts to share posts or new products from your site
- Create newsletters and send to site users or customers
- Basic Search Engine Optimisation, SEO
- Assign users to site and add restrictions
No prior knowledge of web programming required but a basic knowledge of Html, CSS and Javascript would be beneficial. Learners will sign up to a web hosting provider.
Students are informally assessed on their coursework through assignments and in class tasks and can achieve a City & Islington Level 2 Web Design Certificate.
Advanced Web Development which includes interacting with an SQL Database on a Web Server using PHP and SQL Programming. This course will provide students with more skills to develop a website and add custom functionality which can be essential for small medium businesses and e-commerce sites.
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You can take one of our other introductory or intermediate media courses in Adobe Creative Suite, Digital Photography etc. or progress to an advanced course in this subject area
Web design using Wordpress - Introduction