HTML5 and CSS Fundamentals

Overview

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®.

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

Taught by

Dale A. Schouten, Anusha Muthiah and Chris Perkins

Reviews

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Kevin Crawford

My suggestion is to find other sources to learn. I went through up to JavaScript. IT is not well written or thought out curriculum. There is a lot of unnecessary duplication. I will begin with the "Intro to HTML course". This is the better of t…

My suggestion is to find other sources to learn. I went through up to JavaScript. IT is not well written or thought out curriculum. There is a lot of unnecessary duplication. I will begin with the "Intro to HTML course".

This is the better of the 3 courses I have taken so far. The first parts of quite well written, and explain the tags and theories behind them. They also explain best practices, including accessibility.

The section regarding positioning really needs a lot of work. They make this part very hard to understand.

The second course is the CSS course. It is basically a repeat of the CSS section of the HTML course, with a few new concepts explained.

The last course I completed was their JavaScript course. It needs a complete makeover. Javascript has been improved, and they haven't updated this course. An example is they use var in a lot of their examples, which is no longer recommended.

Also, while one of the lecturer definitely knows his material, his first language is French, and his English can be very hard to understand. You will want to download the transcripts.

I just took the Traversy courses, which made it so easy to learn the concepts, including grid, which is not covered in the courses thus far. Grid and Flexbox are the go to standards now for positioning, for those that are unaware.

There are plenty of option s out there. Until W3C revamps their courses, I'd avoid paying any money for these courses. I'm glad I didnt. I just audited the courses.
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