What you'll learn

Web development

HTML5

CSS3

Web page layouting and best practices

Design websites like Facebook and Twitter with HTML/CSS

Requirements

No course prerequisites. Just a laptop will do.

Description

This course is an absolute beginner’s guide to web development, so if you don’t know anything about building websites or even what websites are, then you’re in the right place. In this course, we'll use a project-based approach to learn how to build websites. We'll be building the Facebook landing page with HTML5 and CSS3. The course is easy to understand and simple to follow along with. There's no assumption that you already know a few things. Everything is explained in an easy way from scratch.

Some of the things we'll learn in this course include:

What web development is

HTML tags

What developer documentation is and how to use search engines

HTML tag relationships

Indentation and proper HTML practices

HTML forms

How to work with images in HTML, the <img> tag and why we need the alternate text attribute

An introduction to CSS - what CSS is and its role in web development

CSS measurement units - the absolute and relative units

Using classes to target web elements

Colours in web pages

Creating page layouts with CSS grid

How to link CSS files with HTML code

What specificity is in web development

How to style forms with CSS

Creating and styling buttons in web pages

Using CSS to style links

CSS Pseudo-classes

Working with CSS playgrounds

Best practices in web development

How to write readable code and why it is important

Who this course is for:

Beginner web developers looking for a project-based approach to learning how to build websites with HTML and CSS