Welcome to Web Design Training Services
Web Design Training Services offer a range of specialist web design courses, allowing beginners to start at the basic level of competency and move on gradually to build their overall web-design skills. The courses run in Auckland and with REAP (Rural Education Activities Programme) in Taumarunui, Taupo, Whakatane and Kaitaia..
Training Courses
Basic Web Design Level I
Learn the basics of building a website using Microsoft Expression Web 2. We cover an overview of terms and concepts, progress to creating a webpage, learning how to insert graphics and text, generating a template with hyperlinks, adding content and publishing on a webserver. The course focusses on building a tables based layout. This course is a pre-requisite for Basic Web Design II.
Basic Web Design Level II
Built on the same framework as the first course Basic Web Design I, this course focusses on rebuilding the Whitechapel Cottage template using Cascading Styles Sheets (CSS). The course goes in to some basic theory of CSS and covers the key styles required to make rollover buttons, add images and text. The course also covers the inserting of content in to the template. CSS is covered in a specific course Cascading Style Sheet Principles.
How to be Found on the Internet
The course covers the key principles of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and how to set your website up to be found, tuning for keywords, then how to list with the 3 largest Search Engines and establish webmaster consoles for monitoring. Also covered are Google Dashboard, Google Analytics and how to set webmaster consoles in Yahoo and Bing webmaster search engine interfaces.
