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HTML & CSS Combo Essentials Introduction 2 Days - Manchester
Key Course Details:
Level:
Introduction
Duration:
2
Days - 10am to 5pm
Price:
£450 + vat
Learn the basics of creating a web page from scratch and adding simple visual styling to produce results that will appeal to your audience. This course is the perfect way to understand the core languages that define the structure and appearance of almost every resource on the web.
After we guide you on what HTML and CSS are and how they are written, we will show you how to harness their combined power to produce reliable, semantic documents styled to look appealing across an array of browsers and devices. With our help, you will learn how to control page structure, dimensions, fonts, colours, and much more.
Learn the basics of creating a web page from scratch and adding simple visual styling to produce results that will appeal to your audience. This course is the perfect way to understand the core languages that define the structure and appearance of almost every resource on the web.
After we guide you on what HTML and CSS are and how they are written, we will show you how to harness their combined power to produce reliable, semantic documents styled to look appealing across an array of browsers and devices. With our help, you will learn how to control page structure, dimensions, fonts, colours, and much more.
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HTML & CSS Combo Essentials 2 Days
Course Details
This 2-day Essentials course will cover everything you need to get started with producing HTML and styling your content with CSS. You will learn how web pages are structured under the hood and how you can put together your own files for the web. We will also show you how to use CSS to control every aspect of a site's visuals: its fonts, colours, leading, margins, and more.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the syntax and structure of HTML pages
- Insert tags, attributes, and values into a page
- Define titles, headings, and page regions
- Add links, alternate text content, and background images
- Position and resize images and other page elements
- Work with colours
- Use correct styles instead of deprecated HTML tags
- Design without relying on tables
- Include padding, margins, borders, and backgrounds
- Write selectors to target only specific parts of a page
- Produce horizontal and vertical navigation bars
- Style hyperlinks
- Differentiate between external, embedded, and inline styles
Our goals are for you to understand how to create and adjust your own HTML documents, and for you to understand how to enhance the visual appearance of your web pages.
Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites:
This course is intended for anyone interested in producing, editing, or visually styling content for the web.
You will need basic PC or Mac skills, including a solid understanding of a computer's operating system (Windows or Mac OS). You will also need to know how to launch a program, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media.
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Full Course Outline
The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.
Introducing HTML- A brief overview of HTML and the world wide web
- Browser and resolution issues
- The syntax and structure of HTML
- Introducing tags, attributes and values
- Meeting logical and physical tags
- Container and empty elements
- Understanding the DTD (document type declaration)
- Defining the Head and Body regions
- Structuring and formatting your content using Block and Character level tags
- Fonts and colour
- Sizing text and using headings
- Indenting using Blockquotes
- Using Horizontal Rules
- Including Escape characters
- Naming conventions
- Including a Title for your pages
- Testing your site in different browsers
- Understanding colour for the web
- Working with hexadecimal
- Meeting web safe colours
- Applying colour to text, tables and cells
- The different image formats used on the web
- Placing and linking an image
- Adding alternate text
- Sizing and positioning images
- Creating a simple table
- Adding rows and cells
- Adding content to cells
- Formatting tables and cells
- Creating relative links between pages
- Creating absolute links to other sites
- Creating mailto links and links to non-HTML/XHTML files
- Adding named anchor links to long pages
- Adding links to images
Introducing CSS- A brief review of HTML
- Understanding the limitations of HTML
- The evolution and current status of CSS
- Where to keep up to date with CSS
- CSS and CSS2
- The importance of DTD (document type declaration) when using CSS
- The Style and Comment HTML tags
- Declaration block
- ID and class styles
- Embedded styles
- InLine styles
- External Style Sheets
- Locating amending embedded styles
- Locating and amending inline styles
- Linking vs importing external style sheets
- ID vs Class selectors
- Descendant selectors and grouping selectors
- The DIV and SPAN tags
- Fonts and font families
- Sizing text using different units of measure
- Line height
- Font weight
- Working with colour
- Link basics
- Styling hyperlinks
- Link text decoration
- Creating rollovers using hover
- Using the box model
- Padding and margins
- Element positioning
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Location Details
This course is provided at the XChange Training Manchester training centre based at:
Piccadilly House
49 Piccadilly
Manchester
M1 2APPiccadilly House is located in the heart of Manchester directly next to the Piccadilly Gardens transport interchange with excellent bus and tram connections and is easily accessed from Piccadilly train Station (5 mins). Victoria station is also close by (around 10 mins).
Daily course times run between 10am and 4:30pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.
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HTML & CSS Combo Essentials 2 Days - Upcoming Manchester Course Dates
07 Jul - 08 Jul £450 + vat 01 Sep - 02 Sep £450 + vat 20 Oct - 21 Oct £450 + vat 15 Dec - 16 Dec £450 + vat -
Client Reviews
"Very happy with the training and will be taking away a lot of HTML knowledge"
Linda Diep, Optimus Education, HTML & CSS for Emails - 2 Day Intermediate Training
"Really enjoyed the course, it was very helpful - thank you!"
Linda Smith, BSKYB, HTML - 1 Day Introduction
"Brilliant day - fun and informative. Covered exactly what I needed. "
Lisa Simmonds, Penguin Books, HTML - 1 Day Introduction
"Thoroughly enjoyable course. I have learned a great deal over the two days, putting a lot of things into perspective."
Jill Williamson, East of England Development Agency, HTML & CSS - 2 Day Introduction
"The trainer was very informative and helpful, and approach the course in a relaxed manner at a good pace. Many thanks"
Sarah Hatherall-Good, Woolmer Hill School, HTML & CSS Introduction - 2 Days
"Great pace, level of entry and range of ad hoc knowledge made learning incredibly easy and enjoyable. Actually left feeling like I could be a Web Designer."
Bret Painter, UK Metro, HTML5 & CSS3 - 3 Day Introduction
"A great overview to a new subject - I will definitely be able to use the skills gained in the workplace."
Clare MacMichael, Helena Partnerships, HTML - 1 Day Introduction
"The tutor was excellent! He was very friendly and his instruction has surpassed my expectations. I am extremely impressed by how much I have learned and I would definitely recommend this course to my friends and colleagues. The course was worth every penny. Thank you so much!"
Jonathan Cain, HTML/HTML5 & CSS/CSS3 Masterclass
"I was first sceptical of this course, with regards to the knowledge I would gain in such a short time, but having taken this course, I could not have been happier. The tutor was fantastic, very knowledgable and helpful. I would not only recommend XChange training but would consider doing further courses myself. "
Gary Carney, none, HTML & CSS - 2 Day Introduction
"Very well structured and clearly explained. Good facilities, resources and class size. Met all expectations and realised objectives. Would definitely consider XChange Training for future requirements. "
Aoife Breen, UCLU, HTML & CSS - 2 Day Introduction
£450 + vat
Next Dates:
07 Jul - 08 Jul
01 Sep - 02 Sep
20 Oct - 21 Oct
15 Dec - 16 Dec
Over 15 years of providing certified HTML training courses UK wide
5/5 Stars
William, our tutor was brilliant throughout. He was very knowledgeable and the way he would break the source material down was great. Will was also very patient and would make sure everyone kept pace so no-one would fall behind. Overall, it has been a real joy learning new skills and I can't recommend Will and Xchange enough.
30/05/2025
5/5 Stars
Great communication, enjoyable and educational. Good pace and style. Will was a pleasure to be taught by for a week. Ive learnt so much.
30/05/2025
5/5 Stars
It was really good - I felt like the course was easy to understand and follow. I liked how we could code along with it, as it helped with understanding.
30/05/2025
5/5 Stars
Great and informative course, and friendly and engaging tutor. Highly recommend!
30/05/2025
5/5 Stars
Brilliantly paced and attentive throughout. Will was well versed in the content and delivered it excellently. Always happy to stop the session to debug anything necessary for anyone. An overall great experience with a stand up trainer. Well done Will!
30/05/2025
5/5 Stars
Well structured and paced, very hands on and engaging. The instructor Will was fantastic.
30/05/2025
4/5 Stars
All good, thank you. Looking forward to taking away what we've learnt and applying to our projects.
21/03/2025
5/5 Stars
very approachable and helpful trainer with a positive atitude
21/03/2025
4/5 Stars
Ravinder was a great tutor and has enabled us to gain a detailed understanding of HTML and CSS. Hopefully the tools learned can assist us with our future developments.
21/03/2025
4/5 Stars
Great course, very thorough, Ravinder was enthusiastic and knowledgeable, very happy to customise the course for our companies needs. There was a good mix of teaching and practicing so we could learn the skills.
21/03/2025
Whats Included:
Your choice of Windows or Mac 
Certified hands-on training 
Small class size (max 4-8) 
6 months post course support 
Quality reference manual 
Authorised Course Certificate
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the course times?
For all courses in the Manchester Centre the normal session timings are 10am to 5pm with an hour break for lunch. In addition to the hour lunch break there are also two fifteen minute coffee breaks mid morning and mid afternoon.
Daily times are:
09.45 - Registration
10.00 - Course start
13.00 - Lunch
14.00 - Afternoon starts
17.00 - Course ends
Do you offer discounts
or promotions?
We offer a range of regular discounts available for self funding individuals, charities and education along with period special offers. See our promotions page for full details.
What is provided with this course?
During the course we provide all computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac, lunch and refreshments along with pads & pens. After the course you will receive the authorised Certificate, quality reference manual and 6 months direct post course support.
Does this course give
a qualification?
Although this course does not provide an actual qualification each delegate is provided with an official Certificate for completion of the course level.
Can you invoice my company?
In short yes we can provide 30 day invoice terms to any UK Limited company with the provision of your official purchase order and/or completing the invoice request for your booking online.
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