CompuSkills "Student" Area
This section of the CompuSkills website is for our staff and on site students to practice developing live internet applications and increase their proficiency at the various aspects of web design and site management.
Online
In addition to our staff only area, we will export the the designs made by our students to the public webspace and give other internet users the opportunity to comment on the styles and techniques used. Student work can be found in the "testbed" folder. All the work published here is covered by the Creative Commons licence leaving it fully re-usable although we would appreciate it if you made appropriate reference to where you got it from.
2006 News
4 Mar 06: As you may tell this site has undergone a major overhaul to be ready for the next course (starts 3 Apr 06)
10 Feb 06: The intermediate course has finished and CompuSkills are not scheduled to run the next course until a few weeks before Easter. It is planned to use this down time to revamp this site and make some tweaks to the backend systems.
1 Jan 06: Happy New Year to everyone from the staff at CompuSkills.
Our Courses
You can find details of the training courses we run on, in the side panel. If you are interested in a particluar course please contact our Course Administrator for more details. An exact costing and course duration will be based on your requirements.
Courses
Introductory
For students on our introductory courses, where we cover the early stages of web design - XHTML, accessibility and CSS - the example sites will generally be basic HTML pages (although they may well be drive by PHP templates) and all changes and effects will be as a result of CSS manipulation.
Intermediate
Our intermediate students are making more use of the site management tools and scripting languages, as a result of this their sites will tend to have more dynamic HTML effects and will definitely be driven by a backend PHP database access system.
Advanced
While it is unlikely that the advanced student's sites will be placed in the public section it is possible. The advanced courses deal more with programming languages and server side behaviours. As a result, while they may appear to be similar to the other pages - generally they will be dynamically created ("on the fly") as a result of scripts and programs the students have written.
