Learn Web Administration

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Course length:

Self-paced, up to 3 months.

Introduction:

This Web-Administration course will prepare you to competently manage and maintain a successful website for your organization, no matter what type of website you oversee. Nearly all organizations, whether business or non-profit, have websites and this course will prepare you for the position of Webmaster regardless of whether you are seeking employment or running your own website.

Upon completion, students will be able to:

  • Handle all aspects of domain registration
  • Help ensure that websites achieve the organization's goals
  • Properly organize a website
  • Move a website from one hosting server to another
  • Check for bad links and other website errors
  • Oversee website security
  • Setup and manage email accounts, including spam filters
  • Setup and manage FTP accounts
  • Setup and maintain website reports
  • Understand search engine optimization (SEO) basics
  • Merge SEO, marketing and ease-of-use into effective web pages
  • Manage regular backups of files and database
  • Website reporting & Analytics
  • Work with Google WebTools
  • Work with Google AdWords

Course outline:

  • Domain names
  • Setting goals & objectives
  • Organization
  • Moving a website
    • Backing up
    • Restoring
  • Email administration
  • FTP administration
  • Checking for errors
  • Security
  • Reports & Google Analytics
  • Google Webtools
  • Google AdWords
  • Design issues
    • Aesthetics
    • Ease of use
  • Content issues
    • Targeting to visitors
    • SEO
    • Marketing

Prerequisites:

Web Basics course (or test out)

 

Materials required –

* Hosting account can be provided at a cost of ten dollars for ninety days of use for the sole purpose of meeting the requirements of this course. Those who wish to continue hosting on this server will then pay current rates (as posted on the hosting company website) after their initial time expires.