Web Site Design
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Next Workshop Date: Sunday, 25 March 2012
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
Do you need your first website?
Or do you want to modernise your online presence?
Or do you want to modernise your online presence?
The secret that most web designers don't tell you is that if you can use a laptop then you can build a website.
All the tools you need are out there.
The problem is that you could spend 100s or maybe 100s of hours researching which ones are easy to use, reliable and safe.
This workshop is about sharing our learnings to help you get started.
But your website is about much more than tools and technology.
A website is not about technology. Technology only provides the tools.
A website IS about visual communications. What message do you want to convey to your viewers? How to you present that visually?
It's job is to meet a need for your business, professional or personal objectives. And you are the best person to take direct control of that - so this is why you should consider learning how to design your own website.
So to help you along the way this workshop also provides sound advice from visual artists, marketers, and IT industry veterans.
Based on the principle of maximum return for minimum investement - you will not find another course like this anywhere else.
At the end of this workshop you will have
- A fully functional modern website
- based on professional tools
- with skills to maintain and develop your internet presence.
- based on professional tools
- with skills to maintain and develop your internet presence.
WHAT YOU GET AND WHAT YOU NEED
| You will get the following tools and guided instruction on how to use them | ||
| Templating - A professional tool to give your wepages a modern and consistent look and feel | ||
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CMS - A program to help you organise your content, images and present it to the world otherwise known as a Content Management System (CMS). | |
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Imaging Tools - Including a professional slideshow tool to display your images in an a way that engages your audience | |
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Security - an array of tools to keep your website safe | |
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Google Optimisation - tools to get your site found and ranked on google search |
| For this workshop you will need | ||
| Domain Name (if you do not have one do not go out and register for one - we will give advice on what to do and how to get one) | ||
| A Hosting Service (again if you do not have one already we will provide a 1 month hosting account that you can extend if you want to keep it) |

