IT Career Starter - WebCS01

Course Info

Is This The Right Course For Me?

Benefits for Employee:

This course is designed to get you web-designing and developing quickly. The course will let you build an invaluable skill set beneficial for employers and for starting up your own business.

This course has everything you need in to get started right away including Java and CSS and you can work through the course as quickly as you like, so you can get designing and developing quicker. 

Benefits for Employers:

Would you like to manage your website in house? Are you keen to be able to move and respond quickly in the online world? Then this is the right course for your employee. It will have them building and developing websites quickly making sure you are at the cutting edge of the lucrative online world. 

Distance Learning Support

At Start Learning we pride ourselves on our friendly and supportive tutors. Your tutor support will start as soon as you receive your course and will be valid for 12 months. All our tutors are highly qualified with extensive experience in supporting IT distance learning students. You contact your tutor via email and they are responsible for marking assignments answering your questions and guiding you through the course.

Entry Requirements

No prior knowledge is necessary to study this course. Just some basic Computer skills. At Start Learning we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to expand their knowledge and study further, so we try to keep our entry requirements to a minimum.

Recommended Hours of Study

We recommended you spend approximately 150 hours of your time studying for IT Career Starter - Web. The pace of study is completely up to you. To give an example, if you dedicate 2 hours a week to the course it would take you a year to complete but if you could spare 4 hours a week you could complete it in six months.

Course Contents

To find our more about how our IT course are taught click here: IT Course Information

The Beginners Section of the Course Includes: 

Unit 1 - The internet: What is the Internet? - How did it come about? - World Wide Web - Accessing the Web - The Internet and you - Installing a Browser - Internet providers - Browsing the Net - Favourites Accessing a Web page stored in URL - Printing a Web page - Saving a Web page - History

Unit 2 - Organising files and folders: Introduction and procedure - Assignments folder - Supporting CD ROM - WebEx folder

Unit 3 - Email communications: Reply – Forward - New message – From - To Copy (Cc) and Blind Copy (Bcc) - Multiple Send - Subject  - Message - Spell check – Send - Sent items - Deleted items - Address book - Sending attachments - Sending folder - Preferred message - Save and Print messages received - Access and store attachments - Different Email formats - Send/Receive all - Security  - Your Email identity

Unit 4 - Creating your first web page: Welcome to HTML - View the Source Code - To Print the Source Code - How to make HTML tags work - Organising the layout of your page - Body attributes - More control - Adding images  - Using an image as a background

Unit 5 - Hypertext links: Hypertext links explained - How to create Hyperlinks - Using text as a link - Using an image as a link - Open linked page in a new window

Unit 6 - The use of lists: Why we use links - The Ordered list - The Unordered list - Nested lists - Definition lists - Navigating with lists – Hypertext links and anchors

Unit 7 - Advanced HTML formatting: Controlling text and background - Adding colour to text and background - Download a HEX code generator - Adding colour to body and text - Adding colour to Hypertext links - Set the colour for a selection of text - Setting the font style - Setting the font size - Combine the font attributes An alternative way to set the font size

Unit 8: Forms and feedback: Feedback via email - Feedback via forms - Radio buttons - Check boxes - Selection menu - Text boxes - Align the boxes - Password boxes - Text areas - Submit the Reset buttons - Create your own Submit button - What happens when the Submit button Is pressed? - Using a form in a live Web Site - CGI form handling

Unit 9: Tables: HTML for tables - Set up your first table - Tables within tables - What can be placed in a Data cell

Unit 10: More about images: Overcoming image loading problems - Create a heading - Create a button image - Selecting colours in PSP - Advanced image placement - Images as a background - Re-sizing images - Compression of JPEG images - Displaying photographs - Saving images from the Web - Creating animated images - The PNG - Organising files and folders - Using layers

Unit 11 - Frames: Creating a basic Frames Site - Nesting frames - Not all browsers can display frames - Formatting options - Creating a heading - Linking frames - Confused Search Engines

Unit 12 - Image maps: What is an Image Map? - Creating an Image Map

Unit 13 - Multimedia: Animations – Video - How to inset a video file – Sound - MIDI files explained - Using sound files - Obtaining sound and video files

Unit 14 - More creative techniques: Creating a ‘Splash’ page - Invisible spacers - Horizontal rules-the sequel - Scrolling text

Unit 15 - HTML editors: Introduction to TSW WebCoder 2005: Introduction - HTML editors

Unit 16 - Web Editors: Web editors – introduction to Dreamweaver 8: What you see is what you get - Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 - Define a site - Create a new document - Adding a style sheet - Adding more style - Design a professional site - A quick rundown of additional features

Unit 17 - Preparing your website for the internet: W3C - HTML 4 - Define the nature of the document - Define the contents of the document - Meta information - Meta information for Search Engines

Unit 18 - Publishing your website: Publishing your site - The FTP program - How to use CuteFTP

Unit 19 - Promoting your website: SEO/SEM: Offline options - Online Web Site promotion - SEO/SEM - FAQ

Unit 20 - Aesthetics: Site aesthetics

Unit 21 - Web accessibility guidelines: Web accessibility and why it is important - Disability Discrimination (DDA) - Benefits of an accessible website - Accessible forms - Label prompt text

Unit 22 - Web usability basics:  Descriptive link text - Sit map provided - No unannounced Pop-ups

The Advanced Section of the Course Includes: 

Unit 1 - An Introduction to JavaScript: Background to Java Script General programming techniques - Basic scripts that incorporate event handlers - A background to JavaScript - An overview to JavaScript - Creating your first script - An introduction to event handlers - Using browsers and compatibility problems - Programming tips - Assignment 1: Using event handlers.

Unit 2 - JavaScript Programming Basics: Construction of JavaScript components, such as variables, operators and statements - Storing and using data for calculations and basic string manipulation - The fundamentals of JavaScript which will be built upon throughout the remainder of the course - Variables, operators, strings (concatenating strings) - Statements; Using numerical data for basic calculations; Using Strings; An introduction to functions; Storing data using Arrays; and Assignment 2: Exercises based on theory discussed.

Unit 3 - Decision-Making Using JavaScript: Using logic and decision-making to make certain events happen - An introduction to decision making; Using looping statements - An overview of common mistakes and errors - Assignment 3: Exercises using looping statements.

Unit 4 - JavaScript as an Object-Oriented Language: JavaScript's built-in objects - An introduction to JavaScript objects - Creating & using JavaScript objects - JavaScript built-In objects - properties and methods (the string object, the array object, the math object and the date and time object) - Assignment 4: Building a calculator.

Unit 5 - Using JavaScript within your Website: Develop some truly JavaScript dependent web pages - the browser is also made up of objects - The document object model; Window and document objects; Form objects; Working with windows and frames - Assignment 5: The Health insurance questionnaire.

Unit 6 - Using Cookies to Store Information:  A background to cookies - Creating and reading cookies - Using cookies for specific applications - Assignment 6: Create an on-line store using cookies.

Unit 7 - Adding Style to your Web Pages: How you can use standard HTML/XHTML tags to implement stunning special effects without the need for complicated scripting or programming - Background to Cascading Style Sheets - How Cascading Style Sheets work - Implementing Style Sheets - Assignment 7 –Adding special effects to your pages.

Unit 8 - Dynamic HTML: How DHTML works - Implementing DHTML - Assignment 8: Creating drag and drop elements.

Unit 9 - Building Data Aware Websites:  Microsoft's ActiveX technology explained - Incorporating textual data into your web pages using notepad - Incorporating audio into your web pages - Incorporating animation into your web page; and Assignment 9 - Building a data-aware application.

Unit 10 - Final Course Assignment: This final Unit will bring together all the information and techniques discussed throughout the course as well as offering tutorials on using Dreamweaver CS3; Paint Shop Pro; Uploading your website; and Search engine submission. Assignment 10: Design your own fully-functional website.

This course comes with a comprehensive software Library, which includes trial/freeware versions of the following software: Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks & PhotoShop CS3, Paint Shop Pro, Gif Construction Set, MapEdit, WinZip 11, Shop Factory Pro, Cute FTP and Colour Picker 1.9. 

Next Steps

We suggest you take the CIW Design Professional Course 

Qualification

Qualifications

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be awarded the Level 3 Web Design & Construction Award

Examination Centre

There is no exam as such, although you will be required to complete a series of tutor-marked assignments. There is no word count for these assignments although you do have to prove to your tutor that you have fully understood the questions asked.

Awarding Body Information

OCN is a leading UK awarding organisation, offering high quality, flexible, credit-based qualifications and is accredited by the Regulatory Authorities in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Assessment

This course is marked through a process of continuous assessment guided by your tutor following OCN guidelines. This means that your qualification will be awarded according to your performance on assessments rather than by taking an exam. 

Language of Course

English