Web Editing
The Web Editing module sets out key web publishing concepts and the skills required to create, upload, and maintain a web site. It also covers important issues such as security and copyright.
Thanks to the internet, it’s never been easier to communicate with a worldwide audience. Websites are crucial for virtual interactions, from selling products or services to sharing ideas or knowledge. Having the skills to set up a website and use web authoring software to maintain and update it are highly valuable in a competitive work environment.
Websites are a common tool of businesses, organisations, and communities. This makes the Web Editing module suitable for a wide range of candidates, including employees, volunteers, students, graduates, and bloggers.
Module overview
Web concepts
- Key terms
- Web publishing
- Legal issues
HTML
- Fundamentals of HTML
- Using HTML
Web authoring
- Design
- Using the application
- Enhancing productivity
- Text input and formatting
- Paragraph formatting
- Hyperlinks
- Tables
Using objects
- Graphical objects
- Forms
Styles
- CSS concepts
- Using CSS
Preparing upload
- Check
- Publish
Main learning outcomes
Successful candidates will be able to register a domain, set up a website, and maintain it using web authoring software. ICDL modules focus as much on skill acquisition as on the understanding of concepts. Having successfully completed this module, candidates will feel confident making changes to a website and using basic coding skills. The syllabus is standardised and vendor-independent, so skills are always transferrable.
- Understand the different services supported by the internet
- Recognise the planning and design aspects of creating a website
- Identify the different functions of a web authoring tool and how to use them
- Apply HTML and CSS to a website to enable the formatting of text, images, and other elements
- Understand how to publish a site and troubleshoot issues
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- ICDL certification is internationally recognised by employers and institutions.
- ICDL modules are developed with input from computer users, subject matter experts, and practising professionals from all over the world.
- The regularly updated syllabus content reflects day-to-day tasks and responsibilities typical of job roles.
- ICDL modules focus on skills acquisition as well as an understanding of concepts.
- ICDL syllabus content is vendor-independent so that skills and knowledge are transferable.
- ICDL has rigorous Quality Assurance Standards (QAS) and regular quality audits are conducted internally and externally.
The detailed syllabus for the Web Editing module is publicly available, so that there is complete clarity about what is covered.
The syllabus document, which sets out the specific skills and knowledge that you will learn and against which you will be certified, can be downloaded here.
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