About the Course

Includes free hosting for 12 months

Who is this course for?

This course has been designed for people who want to quickly and easily build a good looking and functional web site using freely available online tools.

Our students include:

  • Small business owners who want to save real money by doing it themselves
  • Sales reps frustrated trying to get things done in their own organisation
  • Receptionists and Secretaries who need this skill because the boss has said: “build a web site“.
  • People with home businesses and businesses on the side who can’t afford to engage an expensive design agency
  • Students who want to broaden their skill base and learn something they can make money from today, not 3 years from now
  • Graphic artists who want to increase the range of services they can offer their clients

What entry skills do I need?

To build a web site using our system is  simple and straightforward. Some basic html knowledge would be useful, but not necessary.

What are the training objectives?

Having attended the course you will be able to:

  • List the 10 steps in building a web site from scratch from domain name registration through to search engine optimisation.
  • Explain how to register a domain name and why you should never use Melbourne IT.
  • Explain how to buy reliable web hosting and detail the sorts of features you should be looking for in a hosting account.
  • Log into your domain management account and change the DNS setting for your domain.
  • Log into your web hosting account and allocate web hosting to your domain name.
  • Explain the purpose and advantages of using an open source content management system.
  • Install the content management system or your new web site.
  • Find, select and install a theme for your web site.
  • Create new web pages using the content management system.
  • Upload, resize, align and caption images on web pages
  • Describe the difference between posts and pages
  • Create an image gallery by uploading images from your desktop
  • Manage an image gallery to resize, sort and tag thumbnails
  • Perform basic on-site search engine optimisation on your web pages
  • Create a sitemap for your web site using an open source plugin

What else do I get?

As part of your training package you will also get:

  • Your own domain name*
  • Your own reseller level cPanel web hosting for 12 months (you can then sell web sites yourself). See all the features.
  • Free email, scripts and content management systems including WordPress, Joomla and other features
  • Administrator access to your web hosting so you can set up email and other common functions
  • Access to the content management system for your web site
  • Ongoing support via phone or email
  • Access to hundreds of beautiful themes and useful plugins to make your web site a business-magnet !
*Domain name subject to availability
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