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Welcome to new web design students
2009 Leave a Comment Written by Derek
Welcome to students from the Web Design (Level 2 and 3) courses that Derek is running at Southport & Waterloo Colleges, we hope you will find this blog useful as you progress through your course.
Details of your particular course can be found by clicking on your course from the Courses menu above. This includes dates, syllabus, etc. Hover over your course on the Courses menu and a page for each week will be listed. Click over one of these options and you will be able to access all the notes and resources that were issued that week.
The resources menu contains lots of links to free resources, tutorials, images, fonts, scripts, etc. for web designers. Please do make use of it, almost everything listed is available free of charge – we’re sure you’ll find it really useful.
Should you want to find something and can’t, use the search facility in the top right corner of each page. The search engine is automatically updated when we add new blogs posts and amend the pages, so it’s always up-to-date.
If you want to be automatically notified when the web site has been updated, then subscribe to our RSS feed via the Subscribe panel on the right of each page – you only need to register once for the whole site, not once for each page.
And don’t forget, this is an interactive blog, so if you want to comment on any of our blog posts, or pages, please register (see the Administration panel on the right of all pages) and comment away. All we ask is that you post your comment on the relevant page; if you want to make a comment about something we did in week 1 of the course, leave your comment on that page.
That’s it, a big welcome and we look forward to you taking an active part in this blog.