Design Your Own Website for Beginners
About the course
Whether you want to design websites for fun, as a hobby, as a career, as a skill or as part of your job, this 10-week short course provides a broad, supportive, fun, friendly and reasonably fast paced environment.
This course will include tutor led teaching, open discussions, self-paced activities, group based challenges and supported with handouts, individual help, guidance and feedback.
What will I study?
Learner hours: 25
In addition to embarking on a journey of website design, development and publishing you will also have the opportunity to design and build your own site using a range of industry standard tools and systems. For those students who would like to improve their technical knowledge we will also be dipping into wider topics such as, ‘what the Internet and World-Wide-Web is’, ‘how search engines work’, ‘what search engine optimisation is and why it is important’ and for example, ‘how domain names work’, etc.
The course will cover:
- Anatomy of Web Pages
- Tools of the Trade
- Design Principles
- HTML & CSS
- Building Content
- Publishing and Accessing Sites
- Designing Your Site
- Building Your Site
- Testing Your Site
- Site Review & Expanding Your New Skills
In addition to embarking on a journey of website design, development and publishing you will also have the opportunity to design and build your own site using a range of industry standard tools and systems. For those students who would like to improve their technical knowledge we will also be dipping into wider topics such as, ‘what the Internet and World-Wide-Web is’, ‘how search engines work’, ‘what search engine optimisation is and why it is important’ and for example, ‘how domain names work’, etc.
The course will cover:
- Anatomy of Web Pages
- Tools of the Trade
- Design Principles
- HTML & CSS
- Building Content
- Publishing and Accessing Sites
- Designing Your Site
- Building Your Site
- Testing Your Site
- Site Review & Expanding Your New Skills
Teaching methods and course structure
| Week | Topic | Lesson aims |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Anatomy of Web Pages | Introduce the principle components, structures and systems associated with the setup and design of websites and pages |
| Week 2 | Tools of the Trade | Investigate the tools and techniques associated with the creation, design and management of web pages and sites |
| Week 3 | HTML & CSS | Explore and use HTML construction elements and CSS styling techniques to build a web page |
| Week 4 | Design Principles | Discuss and explore important design principles associated with the creation of engaging web pages |
| Week 5 | Building Content | Explore and review the impact of website content on website design |
| Week 6 | Publishing and Accessing Sites | Explore the methods, services and techniques associated with publishing and promoting a website |
| Week 7 | Designing Your Site | Use appropriate tools and techniques to create a design mock-up for a personal, multipage website |
| Week 8 | Topic: Building Your Site | Use appropriate tools and techniques to build a designed, multipage website |
| Week 9 | Complete & Test Your Site | Plan and test the functionality of a completed, individually designed, multipage website |
| Week 10 | Topic: Site Review & Expanding Your New Skills | Discuss, present and peer-review a multipage website |
Where will I study?
Mode of delivery: Face to face
Our address is The School of Creative Arts, College Lane Campus, Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AB.
For Maps and Directions please visit our helpful ‘Where to Find Us’ page. Further details are sent by email when you have booked.
Materials
As you will be on campus for this course, the Adobe software is pre-installed on the univerisities PC's and Macs. We recommend purchasing the trial version no earlier than two weeks before the course starts for your home PC or Mac.
Prerequisites
To be able to maintain the pace of this course you should:
- Have PC skills that are above a basic level
- Have some experience using programs such as Word or Photoshop.
- Be expected to navigate files and folders on a computer and understand how to use Googles Search Engine
Key Staff
Course Tutor
Mike Watkins
Booking deadlines
Bookings for all Creative Arts Short Courses will be reviewed two weeks before the start date of each course. This will allow the Short Course team to determine whether a course has met the minimum number of students needed for the class to run. If a class has failed to recruit, the class will be re-scheduled and you will be informed. Where relevant you will be offered an alternative class. If the course has met minimum numbers, bookings will stay open to the course start date or until it has met maximum numbers.
We encourage you to book early before the deadline to avoid disappointment.
Bookings for all short courses need to be made online through our online booking system, before a course commences. You cannot enroll or attend a class on the day the course starts, without prior arrangement.
Cancellations
If for any reason you change your mind about joining us after you have accepted the offer, you have a legal right to cancel your contract to study with us within 14 days. This cancellation period therefore ends at the end of 14 days after the day on which you accepted our offer. Find further details of our cancellation terms here.
How to apply?
| Start Date | End Date | Day | Day and Time | Cost | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TBC | TBC | Wednesday | 19.00 - 21.30 | £300.00 | Apply |
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Contact us
If you wish to discuss this or any other creative art short course please contact the Short Course team on 01707 285327 or complete our short course enquiry form.
| Contact | |
|---|---|
| Nick Thomas, Short Course Coordinator, School of Creative Arts | ad-shortcourses@herts.ac.uk |