Web site design for beginners

Perhaps you are at the beginning of putting together a company web site but have no idea where to begin, or maybe you just feel that your current site is in need of a makeover in order to make the layout, design, navigation and accessibility more effective! If so then we recommend you attend this FREE** half day workshop run by the Centre for Enabling Technologies

Taking you right back to the basics of web site design and considering issues such as layout, navigation, colour, animation and accessibility we will show you how to make visiting your web site a pleasant experience for your customers. This workshop is ideally aimed at sole traders and small businesses!

Topics covered during this half day session include:

1. Introduction
2. The language of the web
3. Components of a web page
4. Web site vs web application
5. Laying out a web page
6. Guiding the eye
7. Page and site navigation
8. Using colour and animation
9. Accessibility - don't restrict your visitor base
10. Best practice
11. What is Ajax?
12. Introduction to Server Side Languages
13. Content is King! - content management systems
14. Conclusions and questions

If you are interested in attending this workshop please contact email Lynn Banks on lynnb@ictthatworks.org or fill in our workshop registration form.

This is just one in a series of workshops run by the Centre. For additional topics please click here.

*Please note that due to demand, places on these workshops will be limited to 1 or 2 individuals per company.

**Workshop is free to SMEs in Scotland only!!

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