html introduction
Duration: 2 Days
This two day course is designed for those with no previous coding or programming experience but who need a comprehensive grasp of web page coding and structure using HTML and XHTML - the language of the web. By the end of this course you will have the necessary knowledge to author web pages using XHTML, be able to edit existing HTML and to maintain and update existing web content.
The course explores planning a website, browser issues, structural mark up, creating on-line forms and tables and working with graphics.
Whether you are an individual user, a small business or part of a large organisation, this course will give you the skills and confidence to author and publish robust XHTML and HTML websites
Course Outline
- Fundamentals
- Overview of HTML
- What is XHTML
- Overview of CSS
- Working with XML
- Planning a website
- The site map
- Information architecture
- Understanding file structures
- Creating your firstl HTML document
- XHTML and HTML syntax
- Creating body text
- Creating titles
- Creating headings
- Adding meta data
- Creating description tags
- Creating keyword tags
- Adding structure to the content
- Creating headings and sub headings
- Creating paragraphs
- Working with special characters
- Creating line breaks
- Creating horizontal rules
- Working with images
- Adding image links
- The GIF, JPEG and PNG formats
- Compression issues
- Alternative text, titles and descriptions for images
- Creating and working with lists
- Numbered (ordered) lists
- Unnumbered (unordered) lists
- Definition lists
- Linking to other documents
- Relative links vs Absolute links
- Working with URLs
- Anchors within documents