HTML, CSS & WordPress Introduction Masterclass 4 Days - Newcastle

HTML, CSS & WordPress Masterclass 4 Days Overview

This 4-day Essentials course will cover everything you need to get started with producing HTML and styling your content with CSS as well as focussing on building themes with WordPress. 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. WordPress is a popular tool for creating websites and blogs so we will show you the end-to-end process for creating a fully functional, professional website and blog.

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
• Install and configure WordPress
• Understand the difference between posts and pages
• Publish a blog post
• Manage links, tags, and media
• Approve or delete blog comments
• Customise your site with advanced themes
• Inspect and manipulate the WordPress Loop
• Apply tags
• Create custom navigation menus
• Assign user roles and permissions
• Activate plug-ins that enable enhanced features such as eCommerce
• Attract visitors with correct SEO approach for adding title, alt and image names
• Track visits by using the Google Analytics plug-in

Our goals are for you to understand how to create and adjust your own HTML documents and WordPress websites/blogs, and for you to understand how to enhance the visual appearance of your web pages.

This course can be taken in a single 4-day block or split into a 2-day block (HTML & CSS) and then a separate 2-day block (WordPress Masterclass) 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 & WordPress Masterclass 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.

• A brief overview of HTML/XHTML and the world wide web
• Browser and resolution issues
• The syntax and structure of HTML/XHTML
• 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

• 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

• WordPress in five minutes
• Upgrading WordPress
• New features of WordPress
• Best Practices for upgrading WordPress
• Importing and exporting data

• General settings
• Discussion settings
• Permalink settings
• Privacy settings
• Reading settings
• Writing settings
• Miscellaneous settings

• New features in WordPress
• Creating content: Posts vs. Pages
• How to write a Page in WordPress
• WordPress categories explained
• Using the WordPress Content Management System (CMS)
• Managing Pages
• Managing Links
• Managing WordPress Tags
• Managing your WordPress Media Library
• Updating your WordPress Profile

• Writing a blog Post
• Managing Posts
• Managing comments
• Fighting SPAM with Akismet

• Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
• Making your content search-engine friendly
• Using analytics to deliver accountability and insight
• Adding Facebook and Twitter buttons

• Best Practices for upgrading WordPress
• Managing WordPress users
• Permission levels and log-ins
• WordPress User Roles explained
• Managing files
• The WordPress Dashboard

• Anatomy of a Wordpress Theme
• How Themes work
• Template files
• Typical Template files/folders included in a Theme
• The Wordpress Loop
• The Functions File
• Template Tags
• Conditional Tags

• Choosing a Wordpress Theme to modify
• Category Templates
• The Template Hierarchy

• Understanding what to look for in plug-ins
• How to view plug-in files with the editor and read the TXT files for instructions
• Downloading and activating plug-ins
• De-activating and deleting plug-ins

• Admin roles and permissions
• Security with Wordpress

• Creating custom menus

• Upgrading a Wordpress Theme
• Theme compatibility with Wordpress Upgrades
• Theme compatibility with Plug-in

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:

Training Location

This course is provided at the XChange Training Newcastle training centre located at:

Daily course times run between 10am and 5pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks.

Scheduled Course Enquiry

If you are considering this HTML, CSS & WordPress Masterclass Course but would like further information simply send us your query quickly & easily with the form below. Whether you would like to check date availability, pricing, course suitability or just need further information about a course send us your query and we will get you a swift reply, usually within 2 business hours!

If you would prefer to check course details by phone please call us on 0345 363 1130.

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