HTML & CSS Combo Essentials Introduction 2 Days - Glasgow
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 Introduction 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 or editing 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.
Introduction- The World Wide Web
- Client Side vs. Server Side
- The web technologies
- Evolution of the World Wide Web
- What is Web 2.0
- Workings of HTTP
- The fundamentals of the web
- What is AJAX?
- The W3C
- Web Standards
- Web Accessibility
- What is a Browser?
- Browser Wars
- Netscape to Chrome
- Browser Statistics
- A Modern Browser
- Cross-Browser compatibility issues
- Internet Explorer 6 issues
- Mobile Browsers
- A self-closing tag.
- block vs. inline
- Site Architecture
- File & Folder Management
- Site definition
- Naming conventions
- Defining assets
- The Different DOCTYPE’s
- What is a DOCTYPE
- HTML5 DOCTYPE
- The DTD
- XML declaration issue
- XHTMLising your code
- Document Object Model
- HTML5 Default options
- Adding Meta tags
- Keywords, Descriptions and Refresh
- The Character Set
- HTML Comments
- Script Tag
- Depreciated Style tags
- Linking to CSS
- Defining Media type
- HTML tags & elements
- Deprecated tags
- Semantics in the language
- Page Structure
- Headings & Paragraphs
- Ordered & Un-Ordered Lists
- Nested Lists
- Data Types and Definitions
- Special Characters
- Adding title attribute
- Using the
- Cite, dfn, var, abbr
- Related semantics
- Code, kbd, samp and pre
- Quoting in HTML
- Bold, strong, italic and emphasis
- Tables
- Table headers
- Accessibility in Tables
- Nesting Tables
- Adding Captions
- Merging columns and rows
Web Images- GIF vs JPEG vs PNG
- What the future holds
- SVG and Canvas
- When to use what image format?
- Image attributes
- Alternate text for Accessibility
- Figure Captioning
- The anchor tag
- Jump links to an ID
- relative & absolute links
- server side relative linking.
- open new tabs
- Linking to an email address
- The tag
- GET vs. POST
- Action method
- Text fields
- Setting Accessibility labels
- Text Area
- Check boxes
- Drop-down lists
- Radio buttons
- Radio Groups
- Upload a file
- Fieldset & accessibility
- Submit & Reset buttons
- Javascript form onclear
- Email, url, date, week input types
- Time, datetime, month input types
- Number, range and search input types
- Tel & color input type
- List, autofocus and required attributes
- Multiple, pattern and autocomplete
- Min, max and step
- Browser Codecs
- Encoding in H264
- Encoding in Ogg Theora
- Encoding in VP8
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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 Introduction 2 Days - Upcoming Glasgow Course Dates
20 May - 21 May £450 + vat 22 Jul - 23 Jul £450 + vat 09 Sep - 10 Sep £450 + vat 11 Nov - 12 Nov £450 + vat -
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