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Trainer: Simon Williams

This two-day course will take you through the complete process of building your own website– from planning, through design and build, to updating content and measuring the number of visitors.

You will use WordPress, the most popular (and free) content management system on the internet, to develop a website that you can expand and update afterwards.

You will learn how to choose and implement a design that best suits your needs, and how to personalize it with your own images or artwork. You’ll add pages, input text and insert images, and add different functions to your site such as integrating it with Twitter and Facebook.

You will leave the course with a working website and the knowledge to expand and refine it later.

Comments from the last course:

"This course really helped me to crystallise my thinking on what I need from a website. Simon Williams was a friendly, knowledgeable tutor and there was a good balance between instruction and experimental time." Clare Stevens, Freelance Writer and Editor

“Engaging tutor, well structured. Good mix of theory and practical.” Steve Groves, Freelance Journalist

"I'd already done a blogging course (at The Guardian) but it would have been better to have done this instead ... and saved lots of dosh!" Heather Payton, student

Expected Learning Outcomes

You will:

Have your own five or six page website

Know how to choose and implement the best design for your needs

Be able to create new pages, add and edit text, and insert images and video

Know how to expand the functions on your website, including how to integrate content from social media such as Twitter and Facebook

Know how to measure the number of visitors your website receives

Entry requirements

Although no technical knowledge of building websites or setting up blogs is required before the course, a reasonable level of computer literacy will be needed. If you’re used to using the internet, producing word documents etc, you’ll be fine.

The Writing for the Web Course would be excellent preparation, and will help you plan and understand the content and search optimisation needs of your site, as well as providing a basic introduction to using WordPress.