Web Design for Beginners

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Total Duration: 12-Hour
Course level: Beginner
Delivery Method: Instructor-led Physical Classes or Virtual Classes
Certification: Certificate of Completion will be provided after completing the course

Course Overview

This Web Design for Beginners course provides essential knowledge and skills for designing, publishing and maintaining websites for personal or professional use. In this hands-on, instructor-led training course, you’ll build a website from scratch. It also teaches domain name registration, optimising sites for search engines, publishing completed websites to the hosting server, and submitting sites to the search engines.

No prior knowledge of web design, HTML or CSS is required for this course. This course is for you if you are interested in creating or maintaining your own or others’ websites.

In this practical, instructor-led course, you’ll create a website from scratch and learn:

Website planning and design principles
HTML and CSS for website structure and styling
Domain name registration and web hosting basics
How to publish your website to a hosting server
Search engine optimisation (SEO) fundamentals
How to submit your website to search engines

Requirements

No previous experience of Web design, HTML, CSS is required. You should have basic experience of using computers and web browsers. This includes:

able to use keyboard and mouse
know how to create, save, move and rename files

Software Requirements

Notepad++ (for Windows)
CotEditor (for Mac)
Visual Studio Code (for Windows/Mac)
FileZilla Client (for Windows/Mac)

Course Dates, Prices & Enrolment

All Training Physical Classes Virtual Classes

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Training Method	Dates and Times	Total Hours & Days	Price
Online Training using Zoom	14 Jul 2025 - 25 Jul 2025 Mon, Wed & Fri (2 wks) 04:30 AM - 06:30 AM ET	12-hour over 6-day	£300 £420 (approx. $409 USD)	Enrol Now
Online Training using Zoom	09 Aug 2025 - 17 Aug 2025 2 Saturdays & 2 Sundays 04:30 AM - 07:30 AM ET	12-hour over 4-day	£360 £420 (approx. $491 USD)	Enrol Now
Online Training using Zoom	13 Oct 2025 - 24 Oct 2025 Mon, Wed & Fri (2 wks) 04:30 AM - 06:30 AM ET	12-hour over 6-day	£360 £420 (approx. $491 USD)	Enrol Now
Online Training using Zoom	18 Oct 2025 - 26 Oct 2025 2 Saturdays & 2 Sundays 04:30 AM - 07:30 AM ET	12-hour over 4-day	£360 £420 (approx. $491 USD)	Enrol Now

Note: Online classes are usually delivered through Zoom video conferencing.

Course Content

Planning and Designing Website
- Plan the Structure of a Website
- Target your audience
- Domain Name Registration
- Designing Effective Web Layout and Navigation
HTML: The Language for creating web pages
- Introduction to HTML
- Using HTML Editors
- Structure of HTML Pages
- Adding and Formatting Text
- Creating Horizontal Line
- Commenting Your HTML Code
- HTML Headings
- Adding images
- Adding Hyperlinks
- Creating lists
- Creating sections in HTML5
CSS: Styling web pages
- Introduction to CSS
- Adding CSS
- Changing Colours with CSS
- Change the background colour
- Working with Fonts
- Formatting Text
- Styling Ordered and Unordered Lists
- Using the <div> tag
- The CSS box model
- Margins, Padding and Borders
- Using the <span> tag
- Selection in CSS
- Using classes to style your site
- Using ids to structure your site
Responsive Web Design with Bootstrap
- Getting Started with Bootstrap
- Colors in Bootstrap
- Bootstrap Typography and Text
- Using Container
- Margin & Padding in Bootstrap
- Bootstrap Grid
- Creating a Navigation Bar using Navbar
Publishing your site
- Finding the appropriate Hosting space
- Publishing Website to a Hosting Server
Fundamentals of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- SEO basics
- Submitting your website to search engines

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Career Path

Junior Web Designer > Web Designer > Senior Web Designer

Participant Reviews

“Fantastic course with really friendly, enthusiastic and knowledgeable teachers. I learned a lot at a good pace and found the course very good value for money. I will certainly be back to take more courses!”
Max 17/05/2019

"Eugenia is passionate, engaging and extremely knowledgeable Developer/designer. Highly recommend her and the academy."
Ayo Bamgbose, 06/09/2015

"An excellent course which has given me the confidence to amend HTML and to start constructing my own web site from scratch."
01/12/2014

"Great value and class size. Younes is friendly and patient. I had no idea about website design before this course but by the end I had the basics for my very own website."
09/03/2013

"I really liked it. It was such a useful thing to do."
30/01/2013

"A fast paced but enjoyable course. Perfect if you want to understand the very basics of web design."
07/10/2012

"very enlightening!!!"
01/10/2012

"I though it was a really good class and I learnt a lot in the time we had. The teacher was very knowledgeable and demonstrated everything in a way which was easy to follow. The hand outs were really useful too."
11/06/2012

"The course was very good - the trainer very patient especially with me as a total beginner. I was very impressed with the amount I learnt in a day."
14/05/2012

"Well run and structured course, learn a lot, highly recommended for absolute beginners."
14/05/2012

"Very good value. The course covered everything I needed to get me started with web design in a day! Thank you."
13/05/2012

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is HTML?

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for Web pages. It is the language in which most websites are written. It is very important to learn HTML to become a professional web designer.

What is CSS?

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It describes how HTML elements are to be displayed on web pages.

CSS controls the look and feel of a web page. By using CSS, you can control the colour of the text, the style of fonts, what colours are used, layout designs, variations in display for different devices and screen sizes and many other tasks. You should learn CSS to create great-looking web pages.