Social Media and Web Courses

Adobe Illustrator is a drawing and design package. This course will give you the experience you need to produce professional Graphics and illustrations, and will increase your levels of productivity and creativity within illustrator. Once you have completed this course you can move on to the Adobe Illustrator Advanced course.

This course will take you through the advanced techniques of Illustrator, helping you to become more efficient and effective when using Adobe Illustrator.

This course has been designed with beginners in mind. It is an introduction into the features of Adobe Photoshop, guiding the delegates around the imaging tools required to enhance and manipulate graphics, in order for them to be placed into publications.

Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard image manipulation tool. This course, aimed at those who have attended the introduction to Photoshop course or have used it regularly. Delegates will gain an understanding of Photoshop to use it with confidence for both print and web applications.

Learn to devise and create clickable and profitable Google Ads.
Focus your campaigns to give you superb ROI from your advertising budget.

This one day course uses the free Google Web Designer tool and is ideal for designers who are looking to create web ads and animated online content without the need to learn to write code. Using an intuitive, design focused interface we teach you how to create banners, animate your content, work with 3d tools, adjust content, and lots more.

If you are new to Google Web Designer it can be a bit intimidating and our one day course will have you up and running in no time at all.

HTML & CSS are the fundamental building blocks of the web. This course is designed to provide delegates with the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to build simple web pages. It further serves to provide a platform for further learning both in HTML and CSS, and JavaScript.

Delegates will learn how to build simple web pages that incorporate text elements, hyperlinks, images, tables and (simple) forms. Delegates will also learn about CSS and how to apply basic styling to HTML elements.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Notes:

There is an overlap between the content of this 1 day Introduction to HTML & CSS course and the content on the suggested follow-on 3 day Modern, Responsive Websites with HTML & CSS course.

You may wish to review the content of the Modern, Responsive Websites with HTML & CSS course and if more suitable to your training needs attend this course rather than the 1 day Introduction to HTML & CSS course.

Java is everywhere and is as popular as ever. This hands-on course, delivered using Java 17, endeavours to provide the fundamental skills you need to become a Java Developer. We'll have you build a series of realistic apps focusing on object-oriented principles from the start.

Note that this is not a beginners course. You are expected to be familiar with programming concepts and have a little coding experience. If not you should consider our Introduction to Programming - Java course instead.

Similarly, the course is targeted to closely follow the official Oracle Java curriculum for certification.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

The Java Programming 2 course is closely aligned with the Oracle Java SE 8 Programmer II exam.
This course focuses on the core language features and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) you will use to design effective object-oriented and functional programming applications with the Java Standard Edition 8 Platform.
This course will teach you how to design and develop robust Java code that is easy to test and maintain and can be integrated into multiple applications.
The most important new topics introduced in Java SE 8 are covered, such as Functional Programming and Stream API, that allow you to use the most up to date techniques in your code.
Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

PHP is a popular general purpose scripting language commonly used for building web applications.

The PHP Developer course is designed to provide delegates with all the core skills necessary to build and maintain web applications that provide access to persistent data. Note that while the course is geared toward web application development, it is also suitable for general purpose PHP developers.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

This Search Engine Optimisation course is ideal for anyone new to SEO and who is responsible for increasing the number of high-quality visitors to a website and wants to understand how to ensure their website ranks highly with search engines. Achieving good rankings with search engines is often vital to reach existing and potential customers.

Discover everything you need to know about creating a social media marketing strategy.
Learn how to engage with your target audience and attract new customers.

This three-day instructor-led course provides students who wish to develop and maintain SQL Server databases Additionally, it will be of use to individuals who administer applications that deliver content from SQL Server databases.

This course will provide you with the basic knowledge and skills to create queries using Transact-SQL. It will teach you how to select, filter and sort data from multiple tables and how to use views and stored procedures.