MA Web Design and Content Planning

You'll mix intellectual challenges with practical and technical skills as you learn to build websites in a professional, contemporary way. As part of the course, you'll create a live website and measure its success. This MA in Web Design and Content Planning focuses on the technical, functional, and aesthetic approaches to website design. You'll learn about industry best practices for mark-up, compliance, user experience, information architecture, content strategy, accessibility, and search engine optimization (SEO). This allows you to create and manage websites that provide a good user experience. The skills from this course are ideal for a growing field with fantastic opportunities to learn to design, build and promote websites using best-practice techniques in this wide-ranging Masters in Web Design and Content Planning.

You should have a good honors degree or equivalent professional qualification, plus a working knowledge of computer operating systems (Windows or Mac OS), a good understanding of file management, and competence in the use of standard office software. You'll also need a laptop computer and reliable broadband access to the internet at your place of residence.