Pitman Training

Essential Website Design for Business Award

Diploma Outline

For any business, having a professional website is essential. A businesses website is the key focal point for brand awareness, customer engagement, customer communication and, quite often, sales.

Whether you want to learn web design to start a new career or simply want to expand your skillset and be able to confidently liaise with website developers, our Essential Website Design for Business Award will give you all the skills you need.

In the award you’ll cover a wide range of topics from planning, design and initial build of a business website, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) best practice and how to ensure you have the correct SEO in place on a website, through to working with images to produce professional looking graphics for your site.

There are three courses in this award; WordPress for Business, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and finally you can choose from Adobe Fireworks, Illustrator or Photoshop.

This award can be studied completely online so you can choose when and where you would like to study, and as with all our training, it is self-paced so you work through each section in your own time, giving you the ultimate flexibility and ability to build and expand on your website design knowledge.

If you would like to get to grips with how to design and build a business website, this is a great place to begin.

Ideal if you’re a small business owner, entrepreneur or simply want to add Web Design skills to your CV, our Essential Website Design for Business Award will provide you will the skills you need to create and maintain your own website.  

There are three courses in the Essential Website Design for Business Award.

  • WordPress for Business
  • Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
  • Adobe Fireworks, Illustrator or Photoshop

This Award will take around 40 hours to complete. You can study part-time or full-time and this Award can also be studied online, meaning that as well as the option of studying in one of our local centres, you could also study at home or work if you choose.

This course can be studied online. This means, you have the flexibility to study our Essential Website Design for Business Award:

  • In centre, with our friendly course advisors available for support and guidance as and when you need it.
  • At home or from work – with support via email or telephone during working hours.
  • On a blended mix – in-centre for the modules you need help with, at home or from work for those you are gliding through.

Once you’re ready to go ahead, all you need to do is contact your nearest Pitman Training centre who will be able to talk you through the process and set you up on the online platform, and then you’ll be ready to study the Essential Website Design Award at a time and place convenient to yourself.

To find your nearest centre that offers and supports our online Essential Business Award training,/training-a-z/”>


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