Introduction to the Internet and Websites

This course covers the state of the Internet today and teaches you about the website's role in the grand scheme of the World Wide Web.

You will learn the latest trends shaping user behaviour online, how social and economic factors dictate online behaviour in different cultures, how web design affects user interaction with a website, how to get a website up and running quickly and efficiently and how to get it noticed among the millions of websites out there.

Course Outline

• Challenges of Internet
• Causes of poor performance
• Web traffic
• Global average connection speed
• Why Internet users are becoming less patient
• Content delivery and hosting
• Colours of the web
• Fundamentals of brand building with web design
• Improving your website