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?