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.
ICDL Web Editing
The main benefits of this module
- 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
The goals of this module
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.
This module answers key questions such as:
- What are the main concepts and terms of the internet?
- What are the basic principles of HTML and how are common HTML tags used to structure web pages?
- How is a website planned and designed? How are text and pages formatted?
- What is CSS and how is it used to style different elements of a website?
- What elements can be added to pages, for example, images, links, tables, and forms?
- How does national and international copyright law affect what can be published on a website?
- What goes into optimising a website for search engines?
- How is a website checked and published?