Web design academy
The definitive step-by-step guide to creating your own website. No knowledge assumed, no special skills required. Start today!
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The challenges of good web design
- Cost – Hiring a good professional web designer can cost anything from several hundred pounds into many thousands, which isn’t affordable for everyone.
- Quality – Like anything, you can buy cheap but you’ll get what you pay for. Even with a seemingly reputable web designer, there’s no guarantee when it comes to quality.
- Confusion – In almost every web design project, you’ll forget something in your initial brief meaning additional costs and confusion between what you want and what a designer will provide.
- Marketing – Creating a nice website is all well and good, but happens next? Most web designers don’t get involved in marketing so things can quite often go quiet.
- Maintenance – If you want to make updates after the initial design work, that normally involves additional cost to whoever is responsible for maintaining your website.
The Web Academy solutions
- Cost – It’s a one-off cost of £149.99 and the only other expenses are registering you domain and hosting. You’ll get a product worth several thousands for under £200.
- Quality – You’ll build your website on the web’s most trusted publishing platform, meaning it will look and function beautifully on all devices.
- Confusion – Throughout the course, I’ll talk about important considerations of great looking design and things you don’t want to forget. And because you’re doing everything, there’s no confusion.
- Marketing – I’ll help you create a marketing plan and put in place the tools to measure visits to your website. You also get a one hour call with me personally to discuss your project.
- Maintenance – You built the website so you’ll know how to maintain and add to it in future. No extra costs, no hassle, just you in full control.
The Course
Frequently Asked Questions
How long will it take to complete the course & create my website?
You could conceivably register your domain and put together a working website within a day. But to do it well, create great content and understand all the marketing concepts, I would recommend spacing out the course over several sessions.
Do I really need no prior knowledge at all about anything to do with web design?
That’s correct. I will hold your hand through every single step of the process from registering an address, right through to completion. You don’t need to know how to code and nothing is left to interpretation. If it is, you can easily contact me for clarification.
What makes this course better than other ‘do it yourself’ web design solutions?
Better support and completely step-by-step. You won’t have to spend hours trawling through support forums or waiting for answers. Once you have the basic skills you can also diverge and create completely unique designs. The knowledge in the marketing modules about how you can create your own bespoke plan is alone worth thousands of pounds.
Modules
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Choosing a domain name
1.2 Registering your domain & hosting
1.3 Assigning your domain and installing WordPress
2.1 Basic configuration of WordPress
2.2 Installation of web builder theme and essential plugins
2.3 Creating the homepage
2.4 Creating an ‘About’ page
2.5 Creating a ‘Contact’ page
2.6 Creating a blog
2.7. Creating ‘Services’ pages that sell
3.0 Installation of Google Analytics
3.1. Installation of Google Webmaster Tools
3.2 SEO basics: create a plan and optimise your site
3.3 PPC basics: setup an Adwords account
3.4 Social media basics: get seen on Facebook, Twitter and more
3.5 Marketing to a niche & finding influencers
4.0 Graduation
