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Understanding E-Commerce

Approved by: Plymouth University

Summary

Do you want to develop skills to combine the front end design of a web site to back end scripts, including shopping carts to increase sales?

Course Title	Location	Hrs/Wk	Start	Duration	Fee
Understanding E-Commerce	Cornwall College Camborne (map)	6	05-08-2013	6 weeks	PLEASE CALL*
Additional Information - Additional Information - This course is delivered over 7 sessions, 1 day per week, 9.30 - 4.30 at Saltash. Date: 08 August 2011 Cost: £350 (funding may be available)
Understanding E-Commerce	The Business Space - Truro (map)	6	15-01-2014	6 weeks	PLEASE CALL*
Additional Information - Please call 0800 731 7594 ro email enquiries@ccb.cornwall.ac.uk for dates and prices
Understanding E-Commerce	Cornwall College Camborne (map)	6	11-06-2014	6 weeks	PLEASE CALL*

Who is this course for?

This course is for anyone who wishes to develop skills to understand design for target audiences, advanced image making techniques, how to build in search engine optimisation and how to build an accessible and user friendly website.

You will develop skills to analyse a range of tools and techniques to build client-side shopping carts and use e-commerce and database applications to promote your range of business services/products.

Entry requirements

A general understanding of HTML is essential for this course.

Course overview

The course will cover:

Usability and accessibility
Design for target audiences, design that inspires confidence in a site’s security and how to build an accessible and user friendly site
How to build search engine optimisation into your site
Introduction/overview into how shopping cart software functions, in relation to static mark-up languages
Introduction to basic mark-up language using Textpad
Overview of server technologies
Software installation and configuration
Integration of front end design and ‘back end’ scripts
Introduction to cart admin functions - catalogue content and functions and product listings

The course is delivered through lectures, practical workshops and on-line learning. Successful completion of this course will require the delegate to show an understanding of e-commerce concepts, systems development tools and techniques to produce a database driven website.

What's next?

There are several opportunities for progression onto other performance boosting short courses for business, including Web Design & Authoring, Server Side Programming (PHP), Enhance your E-marketing, Effective Marketing and many more. Training at all levels and in a range of subjects is available through Cornwall College Business.

Why choose us?

We are the leading provider of professional business training in the South West
Our trainers have recent and relevant industry experience
CCB provides learning for companies who want to train their staff as well as individuals who are seeking their own personal development
With over 1000 courses including business skills, qualifications, bespoke training as well as a range of apprenticeship programmes, we help you add new skills to your organisation
CCB offers flexible course delivery
We can tailor any course to suit your business needs
We have funding available to make your training budget go further
An independent research study has shown that companies that have trained with CCB have seen 17% more growth than companies that have not

Additional Information

This course is a module from a Skillset accredited FdA Multimedia design course, awarded by Plymouth University. It is worth 20 credits and will be listed on your certificate as CFDMD105.

* Loans, Grants and Bursaries are available for some University Level courses. All prices shown on this website are accurate to the best of our knowledge, however, we reserve the right to amend the price of a course without prior notice. Prices may be subject to additional charges for registration, books or examinations. Please call our course booking team to find out the latest prices for this course - 0800 731 7594.