Web Site Design and Development for Graphic Designers, and Photographers

This short course is conducted as eight 3-hour sessions.

The aim of the course is to cover the details of web site development using Dreamweaver for those who are not primarily web site designers. As such it is a beginning course suitable for those new to website design or those with some experience who want for fully understanding. It is the first in a series of progressively more advanced courses in web design.

Topics covered include:

•    How the web works and why web sites are important assets
•    Core ingredients of a web site: domain names, web hosting and the site design itself
•    Choosing domain names and registering them
•    Choosing a hosting service, what to look for and important issues
•    Basics of a web site: pages, links and content
•    Web pages from a design perspective
•    Dreamweaver
•    Setting up a basic site
•    Navigation issues
•    Images for web sites
•    Static vs Dynamic web sites
•    Using a content management system
•    Doing a database driven web site manually

November 12th 2006 READ MORE