HTML5 and CSS Fundamentals

About

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

Learn the basic building blocks of Web design and style " HTML5 and CSS " to give your site a professional look and feel. We guide you step-by-step in how to use the latest Web standards to create a site to be proud of.

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 will 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

Skills you learn

• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• HTML5
• Web Development
• Front End (Software Engineering)
• Look And Feel
• Web Standards
• Web Design

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 and HTML5
- 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
- CSS Flexbox
- CSS Grid
- Recipe project

Auto Summary

Discover the essentials of web development with "HTML5 and CSS Fundamentals" by edX. This foundation-level course, designed by W3C, covers building websites using HTML5 and basic CSS. Perfect for IT and Computer Science enthusiasts, it spans 42 hours and offers both Professional and Starter subscription options.