Website RE-development

Course Brief:

This course is designed to build upon an already existing website and to REdevelop it so it has the best User Experience ranking and optimisation for visitors and search engines. The website MUST already be in existence for this course to be as beneficial as possible for the learner.

Topics include:

1. server migration

2. staging server setup

3. building homepage layout

4. building sub page layout

5. visual brand centralisation
– colours
– fonts (heading, subheading, paragraph, feature text)
– Layouts (header, image placement, images sizing, text placement)
– image types (high key/low key, perspective,demographic representation)
– build style sheet so styling stays consistent

6. Functions and plugins
– user management
– registration
– emails
– image compression
– caching
– optimisation (minify, lazy load, CDN)
– Security (reCaptcha, 2fa, password strength, BOT control/defence)
– What to do if the site is under attack

7. SEO best practice