Web Design

Certification: FETAC Level 5

Duration: 8 wks x 3 hrs

 

 

Web Design using Adobe Dreamweaver - FETAC Level 5

In this day and age, if you're in business, you need a website; it's as simple as that.

As a brand building and sales generation tool, a website is arguably the best investment you can make in your business. A website is available 24/7 to anyone in the market for your services or wishing to learn more about  your company. It can provide an introduction to your business and an overview of your services. It can showcase a sample of work completed to date, a series of insightful case studies and a number of positive client testimonials. It can invite people to subscribe to an email newsletter, read an online diary entry or download a white paper on industry developments.

Dreamweaver is the industry standard web design and development tool. It creates standard's compliant xhtml and CSS and is integrated with almost every web technology and standard you can think of including html, php, cold fusion, asp, xml, asp.net, xslt etc. It can handle almost every web design and development task you throw at it while simplifying the process for the designer.

After a little experiment with Dreamweaver you will see why Dreamweaver is the most popular web design tool available. It offers the tools to get the job done quickly and efficiently while generating rock solid code.

Aims

1. To become familiar with HTML
2. Design, construct and maintain web pages and site.
3. Acquire the skills and knowledge of design principles for supporting the building, testing and refining of Web pages and sites.

Specific Learning Outcomes are grouped as three units.

• Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML)
• Using HTML Editors (Dreamweaver)
• Designing a Website

HTML

• Define HTML, the role of tags
• Use HTML for text formatting, inserting and manipulating images, page layout, links and anchors, imagemaps, lists, tables and table planning
• Use comment and meta tags, insert multimedia files, symbols
• Use RGB colour system in hexadecimal

Using HTML Editors

• Use an HTML editor to generate HTML tags
• Outline the advantages and disadvantages of coding HTML and using HTML editors
• Demonstrate browser compatability to HTML editors

Designing a Web Site

• Identify site objectives and target audience
• Determine likely user access speed, computer platform, software availability
• Produce site structure and corresponding site map
• Produce a logical, consistent and functional navigation solution for the site
• Memory requirements and pixel sizes, resolution constraints, download times
• Produce readable and printable text
• Ensure site content is accurately and clearly presented using appropriate layout
• Recognise file formats suitable for use in Web Publishing
• Design a suitable and consistent user-friendly interface for the site
• Produce a suitable and consistent user-friendly interface for the site
• Produce a consistent file organisation hierarchy using folders and subfolders
• Test, revise, maintain and upgrade the site
• Promote and market the site

Assessment for FETAC accreditation at Level 5 is by Project.

 

This course is currently scheduled as follows:

Course	Date	Duration	Time	Comments
Web Design Day - Mondays	27-09-2010	8 wks x 3 hrs	10am - 1pm	FETAC Level 5. HTML, CSS & Dreamweaver. Create your own website and get Fetac certification.
Web Design Night - Mondays	27-09-2010	10 wks x 3 hrs	6pm - 9pm	FETAC Level 5 certification using Dreamweaver.