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Training:

Introduction

Web writing

Content strategy for the web

Search engine optimisation

Blogging essentials

Web metrics and Google Analytics

WordPress for beginners

Harnessing Social Media

Email newsletters

> Web design

The complete blog setup service

  • templates designed to fit your website or brand

  • best practice advice

  • complete set up ready for you to add your regular posts

  • and away you go!

To find out how I can help you please Contact me for a jargon-free chat.

Web design: principles and practicalities course

This two-day training course combines aesthetic design and usability principles with the practicalities of designing websites now.

Benefits

This theoretical and practical course will help you develop the confidence, understanding and web design skills you just can't get from figuring out everything on your own.

Subjects covered

  • What is Web design and how do people use websites?
  • Technical platforms
    Screens, operating systems, browsers, web servers, domains
  • Principles and processes
    User-centred design, Research, Information architecture, Wireframing, Usability and testing
  • HTML
    Tags and text, Headings, lists and links, Images and image formats, tables
    CSS, SEO and Accessibility
  • Dreamweaver
    Designing with Dreamweaver
    Templates and future-proofing
  • Designing for Content Management Systems
    Case study: WordPress
  • Interface and page design
    Simplicity and clarity, Navigation and orientation, Graphic design: the grid, colour and typographic systems
  • Images on the web
  • Typography on the web
  • Compromises
  • The future. 

In-house

I can also offer this as an in-company course.

Customisation

The course can be tailored to meet your needs, and can vary in duration and content depending on your requirements. It could be combined with elements of Writing and editing for the web 1, Writing and editing for the web 2, Web 2.0 and Search engine optimisation.

What next?

Contact me for a jargon-free chat about this training course.
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