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Get started on the basics of creating websites with HTML and CSS. Relying on only the most up-to-date techniques, this video course provides a way for you to quickly begin coding basic websites on your own.
Key topics to be covered are the foundational concepts behind how the web works and the advantages to coding your own site versus using online templates. Then, you will be introduced to the HTML tags used on the vast majority of sites and learn how to properly structure sites to make them easy to design, easy to maintain, and flexible enough to view on all screens (also known as responsive design). Finally, CSS will be introduced to show you how to create beautiful designs.
Practically everyone can benefit today from having a website, but why limit yourself to the look and feel of using pre-built templates when you can quickly learn how to create your own site from scratch? After watching this video, you will be prepared to begin coding your own websites.
What You Will Learn
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Get started with the basics of HTML
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Structure your website
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Design a stunning website with CSS
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Lay out your site to maximize the user experience
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Work with responsive design to cater for all devices
Who This Video Is For
Beginners with a basic understanding of how computers work; those who work in smaller offices or in businesses that are asking fewer people to do more.
About The Author
Rob Huddleston has been teaching and writing about the web for close to 20 years. 8 of his 10 published books are in some way directly or indirectly related to web design or HTML and CSS. Teaching this material is currently his full-time job. Currently, Rob teaches at Art Institute of California, Sacramento in the Graphic and Web Design program. Rob holds a Masters degree focused on web and mobile application design.
About this video
- Author(s)
- Rob Huddleston
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3979-7
- Online ISBN
- 978-1-4842-3979-7
- Total duration
- 2 hr 38 min
- Publisher
- Apress
- Copyright information
- © Rob Huddleston 2019
Video Transcript
[Audio Begins][00:00]
[intro music] [00:00]
Hello and welcome to introduction to HTML and CSS. My name is Rob Huddleston. Brief introduction about me: for the last 20 years I have been involved in educating adults on web technology and web design. For the last 8 of those years, my focus has been at the college level, both community college and university.
I’m also the author of 10 books, 8 of which have focused on web technologies or the tools needed to make the web.
In this series we’re going to cover two big topics – HTML and CSS. In the HTML section, we’re going to talk about the tools needed to write HTML. We’ll cover the basics of HTML – what it is and how to write it. We’ll talk about the tags. Not every tag in HTML, but rather the tags that are used to make up the vast majority of websites, and we’ll also discuss how to add images to our websites.
In the CSS section we’ll talk about typography, color, background – including images – layout and responsiveness, which is a technique to make websites work on any size screen.
By the end of the series, you should have the knowledge to be able to create attractive, functional sites, such as this one which we will build together over the course of the series.
[Audio Ends] [01:42]