Wellington Lane
Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

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Dublin web design training for site creation and development

At the time of this writing, Computers of South Dublin is the only established service in Dublin offering one-on-one web design training by the hour, focused entirely on the needs of your site. All other educators provide only fixed-length classroom courses in web design applications.

You won't need costly web design software to begin your training. Many students become comfortable quickly with Microsoft FrontPage, a ubiquitous web page editor that works much like the familiar word processor. For more articulate designs, you may use either a high-end commercial package like Adobe Dreamweaver (if available) or the equally capable, critically acclaimed, free software KompoZer.

The progression of your training with COSD will begin at one of the following three steps, depending upon the current state of your web site (or projected site). Items are marked action when they must be taken, preferably in the course of your instruction, in order to proceed. NOTE: Since all training is conducted with real-life examples based on your business or personal web site requirements, any material created in the course of the class is yours to keep.

  1. Nothing has been done yet
    • explanation of Internet domains and hostnames
    • choosing .com versus .ie versus other top-level domains
    • choosing a hosting service
      • Irish hosting providers vs. the global marketplace
      • Windows vs. Linux hosting
      • anticipating needs for web site storage
      • understanding email facilities, scripting language database facilities, and the web site control panel
    • action: setting up chosen domain with chosen hosting service
  2. Web site is ready to create
    • choosing web design software (web page editor vs. web site editor)
    • action: set up FrontPage, Dreamweaver, or KompoZer to publish content from your computer to your Internet site
    • creating your home page template
    • changing colours, adding text and images
    • setting up a navigational structure
    • creating and linking the rest of the site pages
  3. Site is ready for maintenance and development
    • action: if necessary, copy existing web site content into your program of choice, then set up your computer to publish content
    • creating site maps, moving pages, managing site assets
    • standardizing web site pages by creating and imposing page templates
    • understanding and implementing style sheets
    • elements of web forms, form design
    • adding web scripts (example: a contact form)

Please contact COSD today to take the first step towards self-sufficiency in creating and managing your own web site.
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