OTM425 Develop student skills designing successful WebPages for business.

General Objectives:

1. Understand the principles of Web Page Design and their impact on businesses

2. Develop student skills designing successful WebPages for business.

3. Importance of the Internet in business practice: E-business and E-commerce

State the importance of websites for businesses. Explain the different types of websites and information delivery using the Internet..

Advantages of using software to create, link and format simple web pages.

Identify and use of appropriate software correctly

Find MS Front Page in the windows environment (when using Windows 98, 2000 or XP)

Explain differences, advantages and disadvantages between software available for the task (eg HTML editor/text editor & browser software).

Group students and produce a game where they select the right software for specific tasks.

Student group presentations explaining the reason why preferring a software for a specific task.

Identify methods for developing competitive web pages in businesses.

Explain how to identify the business key areas

Explain the role of mapping webpages

Explain key steps to develop successful web pages:

Import and paste text and image files

Align page items

Use of 3 different font sizes

Change background colour

Emphasise text

Edit text

Control text flow

Alignment of page items to the left, right and centre Use of E-mail hyperlinks

Link pages

Insert external links

Insert Email link

Test links

Insert link text

Retain original data formatting Understand the document management techniques for the chosen software

Create a new document

Save document

Print web pages

Print html source code

Close document

Publish web pages on local and public search engines

Show Bobby testing website for successful website design.