Do you want to create a personal home page or personal website but don't know how to get started? This tutorial will explain how to create your own personal website. There is really nothing mysterious or difficult about building a basic website. This article will take you through the process, step by step. So lets get started!

The course is intensive and as the curriculum is adjusted to suit each student, more aspects of website design may be included.

Web Page Fundamentals: - What makes a good web page, readability, legibility, layout, hyperlinks, the role of graphics, browser issues.
Website Fundamentals: - Colour schemes, consistency, branding, navigation, usability issues, accessibility.
Basic HTML: - Tags and attributes, Formatting, Tables.
Cascading Style Sheets: - Classes, browser support, layout.
Web Graphics: - Graphics editors, graphics formats, vector graphics, effects, manipulation, optimizing, colours and schemes.
Page Layout: - Navigation, browser concerns, screen sizes, colours, legibility.
Site Promotion: - Optimizing pages, META tags, search engines, server logs, compression, encryption.
Resources: - Links to programmes, graphics, Java, Javascript, HTML and tips archives.
Web Content Editing - Content structure, the inverted pyramid, web writing style.
Publishing: - Uploading your website to the internet.
Use of Javascript - Navigation, sticky content, windows.