T183 from Deb's point of view

T183 – Design & The Web

A Level 1, 10 pointer.

This is a cracking little 10-pointer course. You need no prior knowledge of HTML; it uses Netscape Composer as a Web Editor, which although basic does exactly what it says on the tin. There is one CMA and an ECA. The CMA is a multi choice answer paper. Sadly I did not follow the course work through and only scraped a pass in the CMA, but it should be easily done if you follow the course work.

For the ECA you get to play the part of a web designer and have to produce a small website. I didn’t do too brilliantly on this either, but I’m hoping it was only because my computer crashed a squillion times, oh and of course I never got around to backing up my work , so my ECA was designed from scratch and submitted within about 3 days. Despite this I passed with a score of 69%.
This course focuses on design, i.e. colour co-ordination etc, not site’s such as http://www.design-bysarah.co.uk/trouble/yuck/yuck.htm, so it’s not the nuts and bolts of hand coding a website and really is an ideal course for the beginner, someone who has their degree and just wishes to continue studying, just about anyone really, I thoroughly recommend it.