HTML/HTML5 & CSS/CSS3 Introduction Masterclass 4 Days - Manchester

HTML/HTML5 & CSS/CSS3 Masterclass 4 Days Overview

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.

 

HTML & CSS Masterclass 4 Days 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

Getting started

• 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

Colour

• Understanding colour for the web
• Working with hexadecimal
• Meeting web safe colours
• Applying colour to text, tables and cells

Images

• The different image formats used on the web
• Placing and linking an image
• Adding alternate text
• Sizing and positioning images

Tables

• Creating a simple table
• Adding rows and cells
• Adding content to cells
• Formatting tables and cells

Hyperlinks

• 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

Introducing CSS

• Understanding the limitations of HTML
• The evolution and current status of CSS
• Where to keep up to date with CSS
• CSS and CSS2

CSS structure

• The importance of DTD (document type declaration) when using CSS
• The Style and Comment HTML tags
• claration block
• ID and class styles

Applying and modifying CSS

• Embedded styles
• InLine styles
• External Style Sheets
• Locating amending embedded styles
• Locating and amending inline styles
• Linking vs importing external style sheets

CSS with HTML

• ID vs Class selectors
• Descendant selectors and grouping selectors
• The DIV and SPAN tags

Typography with CSS

• Fonts and font families
• Sizing text using different units of measure
• Line height
• Font weight
• Working with colour

Hyperlinks

• 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

Improved layout

• 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

Simplified markup

• The new DOCTYPE declaration
• Simplified charset
• Looser coding standards
• Good practice to ensure consistency
• Depreciated tags and attributes

Basic page structure

• Understanding the outline algorithm
• Ensuring cross browser structure
• Structuring top-level and interior level content
• Meeting the new content models

Structural content

• Introducing the new HTML5 semantic tags
• Header
• Footer
• Section
• Aside
• Article
• Hgroup

Interior content

• Figure
• Figcaption
• The role of the DIV Tag
• Ensuring block-level display

Video & audio

• 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

Canvas

• Introducing the canvas API
• Drawing basic shapes
• Simple animation
• Loading an image

Drag & drop

• Brief overview

HTML5 forms

• Meeting the new input types
• Setting autofocus
• Using placeholder data
• The new date picker
• Spinners and sliders

CSS3

• A brief overview of the history CSS
• Image borders
• Shadows
• Rounded corners
• @font-face
• Server fonts
• Font licensing issues
• 2D transforms and transitions

What's Included

The following are provided for your best experience on this course:

• All computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac systems
• Small class size (limited to a maximum of 4-8 attendees on all sessions)
• Quality reference manual for post course reference to take away with you
• 6 months post course support to assist you where needed
• Official Authorised Certificate for your successful completion of the course
• Lunch To give you the most flexible options for lunch we provide lunch vouchers which can be redeemed locally at a number of popular eateries including Pret A Manger, EAT, Starbucks, Tesco, Sainsburys, Boots and Greggs
• Refreshments to keep you on top form are available for you throughout the course with a full range of teas, coffees and biscuits
• Pads and pens

Daily course times run between 10am and 5pm 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.

Further details on benefits included with this HTML course:

HTML/CSS Web Expert Instructor

Our trainers are HTML Specialists with years of experience teaching HTML. Get the web skills you need with our HTML professionals.

Quality training manual

Included with our HTML courses is the HTML & CSS Visual Quickstart Guide provided for free to use as a post course reference resource. This is a full 300+ page manual to supplement the content covered during the course.

6 months support

Included with your course booking for all delegates on this course is 6 months free support so if you run into problems or need assistance relating to anything covered during your course we would be happy to assist you during this time.

Official Course Certificate

After your class with XChange Training you will receive our official Certificate as a record of your successful completion of the course.

Lunch & refreshments

Delegates attending scheduled or bespoke courses at our training centres will receive lunch and plentiful refreshments including tea, coffee and hot chocolate for each day of the course.

Training Location

This course is provided at the XChange Training Manchester training centre based at:

Piccadilly House
49 Piccadilly
Manchester
M1 2AP

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Piccadilly 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 5pm 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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