Introduction to Web Development (FutureLearn)

Along the way you’ll learn about the box model, which describes how websites are laid out by browsers, and about the Document Object Model, which your JavaScript code will interact with to dynamically change your web pages.

In the final week, you’ll design and create a quiz web page and demonstrate your new skills by making your own website.

Syllabus

Week 1: Build a website using HTML

Week 2: Style websites using CSS

Week 3: Make websites interactive with JavaScript

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

- Produce a HTML web page using suitable tags and attributes

- Explain the advantages of CSS compared to inline styling

- Apply classes and ids to style a website

- Model web pages using the box model

- Demonstrate how to use the Document Object Model (DOM) to access an element of a web page

- Produce an interactive website using JavaScript

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for teachers delivering lessons at a GCSE level or equivalent, and for beginner programmers looking to start using HTML and JavaScript.

To take this course, you need to be familiar with basic programming structures such as loops and if statements, but you don’t need any experience of HTML, CSS or JavaScript.

For the week on JavaScript, you need to be comfortable with using functions with parameters and return values.