Course Details
Course Duration – One day
Course Objectives
This course has been designed to give first time users the skills they need to create and edit HTML documents for submission to a web server. The course is suitable for people who wish to understand and use HTML to improve their web site. This course is 100% hands on, with practical exercises to practice the new skills as you learn them.
Course Content
HTML Basics
- Browsing the web
- Web concepts
- Browsing the web
- Viewing the source code of a web page
- Creating a simple HTML document
- Adding body text to an HTML document
Adding text
- Creating headings and paragraphs
- Creating headings
- Creating paragraphs and inserting line breaks
- Adding comments
- Using character entities
- Formatting text
- Formatting body text
- Setting alignment
- Using horizontal rules
- Inserting a horizontal rule
- Formatting a horizontal rule
Adding hyperlinks
- Adding hyperlinks to another web site
- Observing hyperlinks
- Adding a hyperlink to another web site
- Adding hyperlinks within your web site
- Adding a hyperlink to another page on your site
- Adding a hyperlink to a point within a page
- Sending an e-mail from a page
- Adding a mailto link
Images and backgrounds
- Adding images
- Adding an image to a web page
- Aligning text around an image
- Using a graphic as a hyperlink
- Backgrounds
- Adding a background colour
- Adding a background image
- Watermarking the background image
Adding lists
- Adding unordered lists
- Adding ordered lists
- Adding definition lists
- Working with lists
- Using different types of bullets
- Using an images as bullets
- Nesting lists
Tables
- Creating tables
- Creating a table
- Setting table properties
- Adding headings in a table
- Working with tables
- Spanning cells across rows and columns
- Setting alignment within a table
- Inserting images and links within cells
- Nested tables
- Using nested tables
Introduction to style sheets
- Embedded and inline styles
- Using inline styles
- Defining and using embedded styles
- Using DIV and SPAN tags
- Linked styles
- Using a linked style sheet
- Creating a style sheet file and linking it to a page
- Cascading style sheets
- Discussing cascading order of styles
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Windows along with familiarity with using a keyboard and mouse is assumed. A basic working knowledge of a web publishing software package like Dreamweaver or FrontPage would be an advantage.