Learn how to build Web sites using HTML5 and basic CSS, directly from W3C, creator of the latest Web standards. Learn the basics of Web design and style to give your Web sites a professional look and feel. The Microsoft team and experts from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will guide you step-by-step in how to use the latest Web standards to create a site to be proud of.
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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?
