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W3Cx: HTML5 and CSS Fundamentals

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Learn how to build Web sites using HTML5 and basic CSS, directly from W3C, creator of the latest Web standards.

6 weeks
4–6 hours per week
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
Free
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Starts Mar 19
Ends Apr 4
Starts Apr 9

About this course

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This course is part of W3C's "Front-End Web Developer" Professional Certificate.

Learn the basic building blocks of Web design and style – HTML5 and CSS – to give your site a professional look and feel. We guide you step-by-step in how to use the latest Web standards to create a site to be proud of.

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®.

At a glance

  • Language: English
  • Video Transcript: English
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  • Associated skills:Look And Feel, Web Development, Web Design, HTML5, Web Standards, Front End (Software Engineering), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

What you'll learn

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

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 and HTML5
- 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
- CSS Flexbox
- CSS Grid
- Recipe project

This course is part of Front-End Web Developer Professional Certificate Program

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5 skill-building courses
Self-paced
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7 months
5 - 7 hours per week

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