Have you always wanted to build a webpage? Or have you been assigned the task of managing the company's web presence and don't know where to begin? Maybe you have just been away from it for awhile and need a refresher. Then this is the class for you.

This course will take you through the basics of HTML from the beginning, introduce you to Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) and teach you a bit about the latest version of HTML; HTML5. You'll leave with a strong foundation in HTML and CSS which will enable you to move on to more advanced classes and more technical HTML/CSS challenges.

Applicable Job Roles: web designers, webmasters, web programmers, and web developers and mobile application developers.

• Understand what HTML is and how to structure an HTML document
• Understand the role and importance of the DOCTYPE declaration
• Effectively use META tags and information (including information for assistive technologies and search engines)
• Be able to use an FTP program to transfer files to a web server

• Understand basic content layout coding
• Understand how hyperlinks work
  • Know how to create hyperlinks
  • Know how to create anchor links
• Understand how lists work and be able to use them in a webpage
  • Ordered list
  • Unordered list
  • Nested list
• Understand and use special characters in an HTML document

• Code a table with rows and columns
  • Combine rows or columns within a table
• Insert images into a webpage
  • Understand the importance and construct of 'alt' tags
• Understand what 'accessibility requirements' means and how to address it
  • Coding for screenreaders
  • Validating your code
  • Checking for contrast

• Understand the structure of forms
• Be able to create forms that can return the responses via email
• Experiment with using the HTML5 DOCTYPE
  • Validate your form for user entry using HTML5
  • Using the 'placeholder' attribute

• Understand basic CSS
• Create CSS classes and id's.
• Be able to use CSS to style a web page
• Be able to link to an external style sheet

• This lesson incorporates all 5 of the previous lessons and you will be creating a functional web site.