Developing a website can be a daunting task. This course will guide you through planning methods to give you practical experience and improve your knowledge and confidence in web skills generally.

The course focuses on the University of Leicester's web environment (Plone Content Management System) and best practice guidelines.

The Plone content management system make it very easy to create websites, it’s also easy to create a bad website if the planning stage isn’t considered first. For this reason we recommend that you attend the Planning Your Website course before attending the Plone course.

Wednesday 13 June 2012 (9.30am - 1.00pm)

Wednesday 26 September 2012 (9.30am - 1.00pm)

This course contains a mix of individual and group work which will help you to:

• Appreciate the need to plan a website
• Use the techniques to plan a website
• Know where to get help and training
• Practice working in a group with different ideas and opinions
• Meet a member of the Web Team and ask questions

• You will gain a practical understanding of the stages involved in planning a website.
• Appreciate the importance of planning before building a website
• Understand the main  web concepts and terminology for building a website
• Understand how to plan around audience needs, objectives and tasks
• Learn techniques  to plan a website

Suitable for all staff who will be maintaining or creating University web pages.

Whilst the course includes elements of Plone, it is also useful to those planning a website outside of the university.

You will be asked to view a short web presentation on Good practice in web communication and read through the planning section of the Web Centre before attending the course.

This course is part of a programme of Web Authoring courses.  We recommend you attend them in the following order if possible.
Planning your Website

Plone Introduction

Writing for the Web

For self help and advice visit the Web Centre at www2.le.ac.uk/webcentre 

Beford attending:  No previous experience in creating web pages is required for this introductory course. It is assumed, however, that you have a some familiarity with browsing the web. 

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Teri Browett (External Trainer)
Gillian Nuttall (Web Team)

Maximum 16 delegates
Minimum 8 delegates

Please complete the On-line Booking Form submitting to the Staff Development Partnership.

Booking Conditions apply.

About the workshop content:
Contact Hazel Guyler (IT Services) email: hmg6@le.ac.uk tel: (0116) 229-7959.

About the workshop arrangements:
Contact Us at the Staff Development Partnership.

Course Code: SDCCT019