HTML5 and CSS Fundamentals

Learn the basics of Web design and style to give your Web sites a professional look and feel.The Microsoft team and experts from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will guide you step-by-step in how to use the latest Web standards to create a site to be proud of.

During the course, you will learn the basic building blocks of Web design and style – HTML5 and CSS – to give your site a professional look and feel.

By the end of the course, you should understand all the fundamental elements – from headers and links to images and sidebars – and leave having built a basic framework for your own Web site.

This course has been initially developed by Dale A. Schouten, Anusha Muthiah and Christopher Perkins, as part of a partnership between W3C and Intel®.

• How to write a Web page
• Concepts of a markup language
• Basics of HTML5 and CSS
• Web design and style
• Page layout and flexbox

Syllabus

Module 1: My first Web page The big three: HTML5, CSS and JavaScript Elements, tags and attributes Character encoding Best practices

Module 2: Attributes, images and links Attributes Semantic meaning Images Hyperlinks

Module 3: Adding style with CSS CSS basic syntax CSS properties Lists and selectors

Module 4: Fixing and debugging Debugging tools Debugging and the CSS box model Debugging CSS precedence

Module 5: More HTML5 and CSS Tables Multimedia Embedding content CSS tricks

Module 6: Basics of page layout Concepts Flexbox Recipe project Where to from here?

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Meet your instructors

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Marwa Hussein

Content Developer

Microsoft Corporation

Andrew Byrne

Senior Content Developer

Microsoft Corporation

Adrian Leven

Content Developer

Microsoft Corporation

Gerry O’Brien

Senior Content Development Manager

Microsoft