HTML (the Hpertext Markup Language) is the language of the World Wide Web developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 while working at CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics) in Geneva. HTML is not a programming language it is a markup language whereby simple coding is embedded into a narrative which describes the structure, layout and formatting of the document. The coding is interpreted or parsed by a web browser and, hopefully, the page is displayed as the designed intended. Unlike programming languages, HTML is simple, logical and intuitive to understand and implement.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) arrived in 1996. CSS is a significant breakthrough in web design allowing designers more control over the style and layout of their web pages than can be achieved using basic HTML. You can define a style for each HTML tag and apply it to individual web pages (embedded styles), localised parts of your page (inline style) or for the entire site itself (external style sheets). With the latter, simple modifications to your style result in those changes globally updating all pages linked to your style sheet. CSS was updated in 1998 and continues to be a work in progress .
Who is this course for?
This hands-on course is designed for new users who wish to create simple web pages for their intranet or Internet web site. No previous experience of HTML or language coding is required. However, new users should be familiar with the operating system they use and have a solid awareness of the world wide web, in particular their own corporate web site.
Introducing HTML
-A brief overview of HTML and the world wide web
-Browser and resolution issues
-The syntax and structure of HTML
-Introducing tags, attributes and values
-Meeting logical and physical tags
-Container and empty elements
Getting started
-Understanding the DTD (document type declaration)
-Defining the Head and Body regions
-Structuring and formatting your content using Block and Character level tags
-Fonts and colour
-Sizing text and using headings
-Indenting using Blockquotes
-Using Horizontal Rules
-Including Escape characters
-Naming conventions
-Including a Title for your pages
-Testing your site in different browsers
Colour
-Understanding colour for the web
-Working with hexadecimal
-Meeting web safe colours
-Applying colour to text, tables and cells
Images
-The different image formats used on the web
-Placing and linking an image
-Adding alternate text
-Sizing and positioning images
Tables
-Creating a simple table
-Adding rows and cells
-Adding content to cells Formatting tables and cells
Hyperlinks
-Creating relative links between pages
-Creating absolute links to other sites
-Creating mailto links and links to non-HTML files
-Adding named anchor links to long pages
-Adding links to images
Introducing CSS
-A brief review of HTML
-Understanding the limitations of HTML
-The evolution and current status of CSS
-Where to keep up to date with CSS
-CSS and CSS2
CSS structure
-The importance of DTD (document type declaration) when using CSS
-The Style and Comment HTML tags
-claration block
-ID and class styles
Applying and modifying CSS
-Embedded styles
-InLine styles
-External Style Sheets
-Locating amending embedded styles
-Locating and amending inline styles
-Linking vs importing external style sheets
CSS with HTML
-ID vs Class selectors
-Descendant selectors and grouping selectors
-The DIV and SPAN tags
Typography with CSS
-Fonts and font families
-Sizing text using different units of measure
-Line height
-Font weight
-Working with colour
Hyperlinks
-Link basics
-Styling hyperlinks
-Link text decoration
-Creating rollovers using hover
Improved layout
-Using the box model
-Padding and margins
-Element positioning
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