Web Design

Web design

This website will be about web design course 

called South Thames college Merton campus in Wandsworth London UK

South Thames College provides facilities for over 21,000 students over four London-based campuses in Wandsworth, Merton, Tooting and Roehampton. Across these campuses, their facilities include a sports hall, performance theatre, hair and beauty salons, CAD offices, electronics labs and workshops for engineering, motorcycle maintenance and musical instrument making.

Aim and purpose
The aim of this unit is to give learners a knowledge of how websites function and an understanding of their
purpose as business tools. Learners will then gain develop the skills required to design and create a multiple
page website.
Unit introduction
The worldwide web has given rise to a new medium of communication. Websites can allow us to ‘walk into’
a world with very few boundaries. We can find MP3 files and download them with ease. Our digital images
can be sent to relatives overseas in seconds. We can go shopping without leaving our homes and source the
very best prices with the click of a mouse button.
Essential to developing the worldwide web are the people who design effective documents that can be ‘read’
by a web browser. Web designers have the fascinating task of taking text, images, video and other resources
and crafting them into high quality documents for broadcasting across the world via the internet. Their brief is
to produce attractive and informative sites that are accessible to everyone. This includes users with disabilities,
where, for example, features can allow speech synthesisers to read out pages for blind users. In this unit
learners see the potential of the web and will develop a skill set which will be highly valued by industry and
commerce as well as being a useful personal skill for leisure pursuits. Web design is a skill that is becoming
more and more popular as the worldwide web expands and as companies see the advantage of using
browser technology for their company intranets. The unit provides a firm grounding in the concepts of web
design which will help learners to progress to employment or to another educational course and to become
valued employees with the key skills needed in their chosen employment.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this unit a learner should:

1 Know web architecture and components
2 Understand how websites can be used by organisations
3 Be able to design website components
4 Be able to create website components.