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Effective Web Design


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About the course: Effective Web Design

Course Aims

This course is designed for any user wishing to have a comprehensive understanding of the techniques and practices required to ensure effective, structured and professional web design.

Who Should Attend?

Anyone who is designing and developing web sites : no prior skill or understanding of online design is required.

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Public Courses for Effective Web Design

Sorry -- we do not arrange scheduled public courses for our Effective Web Design course at the moment.

But if you would like to arrange a private training course, [click here for details] please contact us and we'll be pleased to discuss the best options for you.


Private Courses for Effective Web Design

We provide private training courses which can be delivered at our training centre or on your premises, on dates to suit you and your staff.

Course content can either follow the standard outline [click here for details], or be tailored to your requirements at no extra charge.

While we will organise training courses for as many delegates as you wish, we recommend that any class does not exceed 8 delegates to ensure that learning objectives are met.

Prices

For training at our centres or your offices.
Prices vary according to the size of the class, but can be as low as £108 per delegate.
        At your offices – From £549 : Call for more details
        At our centres  – From £599 : Call for more details

Please note : all prices exclude VAT

Course Outline

Day 1

Communicating Data on the Web:

  • Introduction and Objectives:
  • Communicating Information to an “unseen” Audience

Attention-Grabbing Indicators:

  • Identifying the Audience
  • Reaching a Web Audience
  • Retaining Site Interest
  • Developing an Audience for Further Reading

Relearning Writing Skills (for the Web!):

  • Typography:
  • Readability vs. Legibility – I Shot the Serif
  • And to Cap it All!
  • If it Looks Hard to Read – it is!
  • Spell it Right!
  • Text files vs. Graphics files
  • Default Fonts and Sizes – Don’t be a Control Freak
  • The Dreaded Variables

Making On-Screen Data Readable:

  • Design Principles
  • Alignment:
  • Choose one, just one!
  • Living on the edge – Get off it!
  • Proximity:
  • Developing a Squint
  • Paragraphs vs. Breaks
  • Relationships
  • Organised Space
  • Repetition:
  • A Sense of Belonging
  • Unified Websites
  • Guiding Without Instructing
  • Elements of Surprise
  • Contrast:
  • A Hierarchy of Information
  • Creating a Focal Point

Day 2

Structuring Material:

  • Planning made Simple – Sticky Information
  • Navigation Design and Styles:
  • Horizontal Formats
  • One-Size Surfing
  • Navigation alternatives:
  • Buttons, Bars and Boy I’m Getting Lost!
  • Selective Linking: Internal, External, Email and Anchors
  • Let the Reader Know it’s a Link!
  • Moving vs. Static Text - Tables or Frames
  • Site-dependent Styles - Let the Site Decide!
  • Index vs. Site Map
  • Design Checklist

Creating Areas of Interest on a Web Page:

  • The Aesthetics of Colour
  • Browser-safe Colours – Paint by Numbers
  • Graphic Rules:
  • Bit Depth and Monitor Resolution
  • File Formats – To GIF or Not to GIF
  • Image Maps – Serve yourself!
  • Thumbnails

Best Practice:

  • Seeing a Site at its Best
  • Site Management
  • Browser Considerations
  • Offline Browser Check
  • Search Tools
  • Cascading Style Sheets
  • TrueDoc Fonts
  • Font Embedding – OpenType

Summary

Learning Outcomes

  • Investigating and developing the methods used to produce creative interface design
  • Understanding and implementing user-friendly and intuitive navigation, visually persuasive graphics, and efficient site organisation on the web
  • Designing sites to reflect and promote a corporate style

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Telephone: 0845 230 6150 (local rate)
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Why Activia for Courses in Web Design ?

Courses in Web Design in London, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Birmingham

Activia should be your first choice for design courses for the web in the UK.   We provide you with a full range of classes for job-related Business Skills, HR & Supervision, Sales and Management Development as well as IT applications from Microsoft, MS Office, Sage, Adobe, Macromedia, Crystal Reports and Lotus. If you are looking for website designer classes, you will find that Activia offers a level of service that is unrivalled in the market, with quality, flexible 1 day Courses in Web Design at fiercely competitive prices.

Good Web Design Course

If your requirement is course for good web design, we can provide you with training courses from introduction to advanced level at highly competitive prices. You will find that for learning how to design websites, Activia will provide more tailored, flexible and focused solutions, and this enables you to get the most from your budget using the minimum of resources.

Courses in London, the Midlands, Berkshire (Berks), Buckinghamshire (Bucks), hampshire (Hants), Surrey, Middlesex and UK wide

We provide Good Web Design Course courses all over the UK, with modern, fully equipped training centres in the following locations:

Courses in Web Design in West London

Serving London, as well as areas like Brentford, Kew, Watford and Richmond.

Good Web Design Course at London Heathrow

Serving Middlesex and Surrey, covering Uxbridge, Staines, Egham, Sunbury, Hounslow and Twickenham.

Courses in Web Design in Birmingham City Centre

Serving Warwickshire and the Midlands, covering Birmingham, Walsall and Dudley as well as Wolverhampton, Telford and Tamworth.

Good Web Design Course in Birmingham South

Serving Warwickshire and the Midlands, covering Solihull, Halesowen and Redditch as well as Coventry, Kidderminster and Worcester.

Courses in Web Design in Reading

Serving Berkshire and the Thames Valley, covering Reading, Theale and Newbury as well as Henley, Bracknell and Basingstoke.

Good Web Design Course in Slough

Serving Berkshire and the Thames Valley, covering Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead as well as Gerrards Cross, Uxbridge and Watford.

Courses in Web Design in Aylesbury

Serving Buckinghamshire, covering Aylesbury, High Wycombe and Hemel Hempstead, as well as Oxford, Bicester and Buckingham.

Good Web Design Course in Milton Keynes

Also serving Buckinghamshire, covering Milton Keynes, Luton and Bedford, as well as Stevenage, St Albans and Welwyn Garden City.

Courses in Web Design in Basingstoke

Serving Hampshire, covering Basingstoke, as well as Camberley, Farnborough, Aldershot to the east, and Newbury, Andover and Winchester to the west.

Our experienced, high quality trainers will deliver your training to the highest standards and with the maximum effect.

In House Courses in Web Design across the UK

For in house delivery of Good Web Design Course, we have an established national UK network of trainers, as well as centres in London, Birmingham, Slough, Reading, Basingstoke, London Heathrow, Aylesbury and Milton Keynes, so you can be sure that your design courses for the web will be delivered in a quality assured and cost effective manner.   For in-house course for good web design, you need look no further than Activia.

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