HTML/HTML5 & CSS/CSS3 Introduction Masterclass 4 Days - Glasgow
Key Course Details:
Level:
Introduction to Advanced
Duration:
4
Days - 10am to 5pm
Price:
£795 + vat
Go from being a novice to having a firm grasp of the languages that power almost everything you can find on the web. Our course on HTML and CSS covers the basics of these web standards and then gives you an insight into the latest features that are used by web-design professionals.
We guide you on what HTML and CSS are and how they are written and show you how to produce and style your content ready for a web audience. Then we go further and show you the powerful new features of HTML5 and CSS3 as you learn how to improve the structure and appearance of your pages. From a blank canvas, we cover all the steps you need to get up to speed as an author of stylish, semantic web documents.
Go from being a novice to having a firm grasp of the languages that power almost everything you can find on the web. Our course on HTML and CSS covers the basics of these web standards and then gives you an insight into the latest features that are used by web-design professionals.
We guide you on what HTML and CSS are and how they are written and show you how to produce and style your content ready for a web audience. Then we go further and show you the powerful new features of HTML5 and CSS3 as you learn how to improve the structure and appearance of your pages. From a blank canvas, we cover all the steps you need to get up to speed as an author of stylish, semantic web documents.
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HTML/HTML5 & CSS/CSS3 Masterclass 4 Days
Course Details
This 4-day Masterclass course will give you a comprehensive grounding in how web pages are structured and styled. You will learn how web pages work 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. We will then move on to discuss recent enhancements to web standards as we take a look at the advanced design features built in to HTML5 and CSS3. HTML5 introduces new features that allow designers to produce richer, more semantic code. We also cover the cutting-edge visual enhancements in the new CSS3 standard, giving you an insight into the impressive results that can be achieved by web professionals.
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
- Appreciate the differences between the current and previous HTML and CSS standards
- Insert the new DOCTYPE declaration in HTML5 documents
- Identify deprecated tags that should no longer be used
- Structure documents using new HTML5 tags
- Implement better forms using new HTML5 inputs and placeholders
- Apply CSS3 transitions, shadows, and border radius effects
- Enhance text with CSS-controlled fonts for the web
Our goals are for you gain an all-round understanding of the structure and styling of web pages, and to appreciate the latest methods for enhancing document semantics and improving visual appearance.
This course can be taken in a single 4-day block or split into a 2-day block (Introduction to HTML and CSS) and then a separate 2-day block (HTML5 and CSS3) taken at a later date.
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. -
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 files
- Adding named anchor links to long pages
- Adding links to images
- 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
- claration 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
- Creating relative links between pages
- Creating absolute links to other sites
- Creating mailto links and links to non-HTML files
- Adding named anchor links to long pages
- Adding links to images
- Using the box model
- Padding and margins
- Element positioning
Working with HTML5- A brief overview of the history and development of HTML
- The importance of standards
- The W3C, WHATWG and HTML5
- Do we need/want HTML5?
- What is and what is not HTML5
- Can we start using it now?
- What features can we begin using?
- Browser, mobile and device support
- The new DOCTYPE declaration
- Simplified charset
- Looser coding standards
- Good practice to ensure consistency
- Depreciated tags and attributes
- Understanding the outline algorithm
- Ensuring cross browser structure
- Structuring top-level and interior level content
- Meeting the new content models
- Introducing the new HTML5 semantic tags
- Header
- Footer
- Section
- Aside
- Article
- Hgroup
- Figure
- Figcaption
- The role of the DIV Tag
- Ensuring block-level display
- Plug-in free markup
- The new video and audio elements
- Overview of video & audio codecs
- How to convert video to ogg, mp4 and webm
- Including fallback content
- Customising the video & audio players
- Introducing the canvas API
- Drawing basic shapes
- Simple animation
- Loading an image
- Brief overview
- Meeting the new input types
- Setting autofocus
- Using placeholder data
- The new date picker
- Spinners and sliders
- A brief overview of the history CSS
- Image borders
- Shadows
- Rounded corners
- @font-face
- Server fonts
- Font licensing issues
- 2D transforms and transitions
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Location Details
This course is provided at our Scotland training centre located in central Glasgow at:
Centrum Business Centre
38 Queen Street
Glasgow
G1 3DXThe Glasgow training centre is located on Queen Street in the heart of Glasgow close to Central Station, Queen Street Station and Argyle Street Station.
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 Masterclass 4 Days - Upcoming Glasgow Course Dates
13 Jan - 16 Jan £795 + vat 10 Mar - 13 Mar £795 + vat 12 May - 15 May £795 + vat 07 Jul - 10 Jul £795 + vat HTML & CSS Masterclass 4 Days - Split Date Options
HTML & CSS Introduction
13 Jan - 14 Jan
10 Mar - 11 Mar
12 May - 13 May
7 Jul - 8 Jul
HTML5 & CSS3 Introduction
15 Jan - 16 Jan
12 Mar - 13 Mar
14 May - 15 May
9 Jul - 10 Jul
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