HTML5 and CSS Fundamentals (edX)

This course is part of W3C's "Front-End Web Developer" Professional Certificate.

During the course, you will learn the basic building blocks of Web design and style – HTML5 and CSS – to give your site a professional look and feel.

By the end of the course, you should understand all the fundamental elements – from headers and links to images and sidebars – and leave having built a basic framework for your own Web site.

This course has been initially developed by Dale A. Schouten, Anusha Muthiah and Christopher Perkins, as part of a partnership between W3C and Intel®.

What you'll learn

- How to write a Web page

- Concepts of a markup language

- Basics of HTML5 and CSS

- Web design and style

- Page layout and flexbox

Course Syllabus

Module 1: My first Web page

- The big three: HTML5, CSS and JavaScript

- Elements, tags and attributes

- Character encoding

- Best practices

Module 2: Attributes, images and links

- Attributes

- Semantic meaning

- Images

- Hyperlinks

Module 3: Adding style with CSS

- CSS basic syntax

- CSS properties

- Lists and selectors

Module 4: Fixing and debugging

- Debugging tools

- Debugging and the CSS box model

- Debugging CSS precedence

Module 5: More HTML5 and CSS

- Tables

- Multimedia

- Embedding content

- CSS tricks

Module 6: Basics of page layout

- Concepts

- Flexbox

- Recipe project

- Where to from here?