Contents
- About the Course Instructor
- Objectives
- Minimum Requirements
- Mode of Delivery
- Course Description
- Topics To Be Covered
- Price
- Booking your seat
About the Course Instructor
Noorani Bakerally is an accomplished computer scientist with experience in both academia and industry. He has taught in local institutions and french universities. You can read more about him here.Objectives
The main aim of this course is to introduce participants to the design of web pages and the technologies involved (HTML,CSS). By the end of this course, participants will be able to create and design web pages, and use a CMS such as WordPress to create web pages.Minimum Requirements
The informal minumum requirements for this course is Grade 9 (Form 3).Mode of Delivery
This course is on a duration of 12 weeks with a session of three hours per week. The three hour session is split into two further sub-sessions: a theoretical and practical one. In the theoretical session, concepts are introduced and explained. Participants are then given a lab-sheet comprising of practical exercises that they have to complete. Then, in the practical session, these exercises are explained and corrected, and participants questions or confusions are answered and cleared.Topics To Be Covered
As mentioned before, this course introduces web technologies namely HTML and CSS. Then WordPress is introduced as a system to easily create web pages. . The following are the planned topics:General Principles
- Web Server and Clients
- HTTP,HTTPS and FTP
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Computer Language: Syntax & Semantics
- HTML Document Structure
- Basic Tags
- Paragraph
- Headings
- Links
- Ordered/Unordered Lists
- Tables
- Divider & Text Span
- Adding Images, Audio and Videos
- Semantic Tags
CSS
- CSS Selectors
- Notion of Cascade
- Box Model
- Basic CSS Attributes and Values
WordPress
- Themes
- Plugins and ShortCode
- Posts and Pages
- Menus