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IT Career Starter - WebCS01
Are you looking for a career in IT? Would you like to specialise in designing and building websites? Do you want one course that will get you on your way?
Then this is the course for you. Our IT Career Starter - Web course will give you an in-depth understanding of designing and building websites including Java and CSS, so you can start working on websites straight away.
We also provide a clear educational path, so you can always make sure you are getting the right training to keep you on the cutting edge of web design.
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If you are looking for more information on this course and would like to speak to one of our expert IT Advisors give us a call on 0141 218 4424 or email us at it@start-learning.co.uk
Course Info
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Is This The Right Course For Me?
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 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
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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
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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
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