HTML and CSS Primer

HTML and CSS Primer Courseware (HTC001)

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This course serves as a quick HTML and CSS primer for students who need basic knowledge of these technologies. By learning the fundamentals of these languages, students will have a better understanding of how modern websites are built. The course covers various topics, including the basics of HTML, CSS syntax and selectors, typography, colors, and text properties. Throughout the course, students will engage in hands-on exercises to reinforce their learning and gain practical experience.

This course can be useful for project managers and other people who work with web developers who would benefit from having a better understanding of how websites are built. It can also serve as an entry-level course for new web developers.

Publisher: Webucator

Benefits

  1. Strong foundation: The course lays a solid foundation in HTML and CSS, enabling students to build more complex web pages and applications in the future.
  2. Accessibility: Students will learn best practices for creating accessible websites, ensuring that their web content is usable by a wide range of users, including those with disabilities.
  3. Visual appeal: Understanding CSS allows students to create visually appealing websites with customized designs, enhancing user experience and engagement.
  4. Hands-on experience: The course includes practical exercises that enable students to apply their knowledge in real-world scenarios, preparing them for future web development projects.

Outline

  1. A Quick Overview of Web Development
    1. Client-side Programming
      1. HTML
      2. Cascading Style Sheets
      3. JavaScript
      4. Ajax
      5. JavaScript Frameworks
    2. Server-side Programming
      1. Java EE
      2. ASP.NET
      3. Python
      4. PHP
      5. ColdFusion
      6. Node.js
  2. Introduction to HTML
    1. Getting Started
    2. Exercise: A Simple HTML Document
    3. The HTML Skeleton
      1. The <head> Element
      2. The <body> Element
      3. Whitespace
    4. Viewing Page Source
    5. HTML Elements
      1. Attributes
      2. Empty vs. Container Tags
      3. Blocks and Inline Elements
      4. Comments
    6. Special Characters
    7. History of HTML
    8. lang Attribute
  3. Paragraphs, Headings, and Text
    1. Paragraphs
    2. Breaks and Horizontal Rules
    3. Exercise: Creating an HTML Page
    4. Quoted Text
    5. Preformatted Text
    6. Text-Level Semantic Elements
  4. HTML Links
    1. Text Links
    2. Absolute vs. Relative Paths
      1. Absolute Paths
      2. Relative Paths
      3. Default Pages
    3. Targeting New Windows
    4. Email Links
    5. Exercise: Adding Links
    6. Targeting a Specific Location on the Page
    7. The title Attribute
  5. HTML Images
    1. Inserting Images
      1. Making Images Accessible
      2. Alternative Text
      3. Long Descriptions
      4. Height and Width Attributes
    2. Image Links
    3. Exercise: Adding Images to the Page
  6. HTML Lists
    1. Unordered Lists
      1. Nesting Unordered Lists
    2. Ordered Lists
      1. Nesting Ordered Lists
      2. The type Attribute
      3. The start Attribute
    3. Definition Lists
    4. Exercise: Creating Lists
  7. Crash Course in CSS
    1. Benefits of Cascading Style Sheets
    2. CSS Rules
      1. CSS Comments
    3. Selectors
      1. Type Selectors
      2. Class Selectors
      3. ID Selectors
      4. Attribute Selectors
      5. The Universal Selector
      6. Grouping
    4. Combinators
      1. Descendant Combinators
      2. Child Combinators
      3. General Sibling Combinators
      4. Adjacent Sibling Combinators
    5. Precedence of Selectors
    6. How Browsers Style Pages
    7. CSS Resets
    8. CSS Normalizers
      1. External Stylesheets, Embedded Stylesheets, and Inline Styles
      2. External Stylesheets
      3. Embedded Stylesheets
    9. Inline Styles
    10. Exercise: Creating an External Stylesheet
    11. Exercise: Creating an Embedded Stylesheet
    12. Exercise: Adding Inline Styles
    13. <div> and <span>
    14. Exercise: Divs and Spans
    15. Media Types
    16. Units of Measurement
      1. Absolute vs. Relative Units
      2. Pixels
      3. Ems and Rems
      4. Percentages
      5. Other Units
    17. Inheritance
      1. The inherit Value
  8. CSS Fonts
    1. font-family
      1. Specifying by Font Name
      2. Specifying Font by Category
    2. @font-face
      1. Getting Fonts
    3. font-size
      1. Relative font-size Terms
      2. Best Practices
    4. font-style
    5. font-variant
    6. font-weight
    7. line-height
    8. font
    9. Exercise: Styling Fonts
  9. Color and Opacity
    1. About Color and Opacity
    2. Color and Opacity Values
      1. Color Keywords
      2. RGB Hexadecimal Notation
      3. RGB Functional Notation
      4. HSL Functional Notation
    3. color
    4. opacity
    5. Exercise: Adding Color and Opacity to Text
  10. CSS Text
    1. letter-spacing
    2. text-align
    3. text-decoration
    4. text-indent
    5. text-shadow
    6. text-transform
    7. white-space
    8. word-break
    9. word-spacing
    10. Exercise: Text Properties

Required Prerequisites

None

License

Length: 1 day | $35.00 per copy

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What is Included?
  • Student Manual
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