Training in web site design

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I'm looking for a short course for my father, who is nearly 80 and who has been passionate about genealogy for the past 15 years. He has so much research and receives so many requests from around the world to share it that he wants to put it all on a web site, which he will design and manage. He is a former publisher, so quite au fait with designing and editing information. Can anyone recommend a course, preferably in London (the nearer to Charing Cross/London Bridge/Waterloo East the better)?

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www.citylit.ac.uk/search/?dept=Computing&section=Web_page_design
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But have you done it and can you recommend it?

Have you thought about asking (depending on the price of courses it might be the same price/cheaper) someone to put a modular website online that he can edit the content of? There are some bits of software out there that are very easy to edit if you have general IT skills (I know nothing about programming/websites and can follow what DP does when he edits his website). A smaller web company might offer a cheap one-off set up and introduction.

I suggest that as it sounds like all he needs (from your info) is the skills to physically set it up online and he could run it after that.

Or, rather than a website, could he edit something like livejournal or blogspot. I signed up to livejournal eleven years ago so it may not be the most modern in the market at the moment (long time since I've done any blogging!) but they have a very good support system, community FAQs and it's been running for so long that any kind of question you have can be found in seconds in the site FAQs. They come with readily-designed options that your Dad cculd choose from.

Thank you for that, CharminglyOdd. I will certainly suggest it to him. I think that he would like the exchange that comes from learning with a group IYSWIM, but I may be wrong!

I think that city and guilds dreamweaver level 1 would be a gentle intro.

Actually the city lit course is a very good price. If you do an online course it often costs more as you end up buying a copy of dreamweaver. If OP father does a course through city lit then he could get a student edition of Adobe CCS suite.

This is a free course
www.timothytraining.net/

and you can download a 30 day evaluation licence for dreamweaver from adobe. However its quite tough learning on your own.

I have done city and guilds dreamweaver 1 at west herts and I really enjoyed it. I imagine that if the content is the same then it would be ideal.

Thank you ReallyTired!