I have just produced a sort of introductory manual for Dreamweaver which is a pretty good exercise to start off with. Check out the notes page under web design and Unit 11 under courses which has several tasks.

Evaluating web sites exercise can be accessed here: useful for all students using sites for research!

Note: 'advanced' refers to the level 3 IT2000 series of units which all have the title Advanced. The web design skills required are still fairly basic but sufficient to produce an attractive and appropriate standard of linked pages comprising a working web site. In my view web design should be taught as part of an introduction to computing as it is becoming such an important skill and software now available makes so many of the tasks involved much simpler, with a mere smattering of html code knowledge being needed, and achievable by virtually anyone who can handle text and image processing reasonably proficiently.

'Advanced web design' is something else altogether and should require competence in html, javascript and server-side features as well as sound graphic design, image management and site evaluation skills.