Introduction to HTML and CSS

 

Course Details and Syllabus

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Course: Introduction to HTML and CSS
Tuition: $298
Time Frame: Due to our monthly lab fee system, this course is completely self-paced. You can expect to work approximately 40 hours on this course.
Technical Requirements: As long as you have a web browser and internet connection, you can take this course from anywhere in the world.
CEUs: 4 Continuing Education Units with official letter from the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education.
Software: The web-based Learning Sandbox® provided for you will contain all your lessons, projects, quizzes, account files, editors, and rendering tools necessary to build your skills from beginning to end, even beyond coursework. No other software is needed.
Instructor: You will have one instructor throughout the course who will evaluate your projects and quizzes, hand them back for improvement when necessary, and coach you throughout your skills advancement.
Book: All required course materials and software are included online within the Learning Sandbox®. However, within a few weeks of enrolling, you'll receive the free book Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML as a complimentary reference from O'Reilly.
Certificates: Completion of this course counts toward both the Web Programming Certificate Series and the Client Side Web Programming Certificate Series.
Prerequisites: Experience using web browsers and email. This course is meant for the complete I.T. beginner.
Topics: HTML tags and attributes, links, images, tables, frames, forms, spans, divs, CSS style sheets, box properties, XHTML, etc.
Syllabus:
  • Introduction
    • Using CodeRunner
    • Saving and retrieving your page

  • The Basics
    • Basic HTML structure
    • The head and body
    • Changing fonts
    • Lists

  • Links
    • The anchor tag
    • HREF attribute
    • NAME attribute

  • Images
    • The image tag
    • Image attributes
    • Background images
    • Uploading images to your Useractive account

  • Image Maps
    • Creating client-side image maps
    • The area tag
    • Finding the coordinates of an area

  • Forms
    • The form tag and the submit button
    • Text fields
    • Textareas
    • Radio buttons
    • Select boxes
    • Checkboxes

  • Tables
    • The table tag
    • Table attributes
    • Usefulness of tables

  • Frames
    • The frame tag
    • The frameset tag
    • Frame and frameset attributes
    • Targeting frames

  • Cascading Style Sheets
    • The span tag
    • The style attribute
    • The id attribute

  • More Cascading Style Sheets
    • The style tag
    • The class attribute
    • External Style Sheets

  • CSS-P: Positioning with Style Sheets
    • The position properties
    • The top and left properties
    • The z-index property

  • CSS Box Properties
    • The border properties
    • The margin and padding properties
    • The dimension properties

  • XHTML
    • Using XHTML standards
    • Verifying XHTML

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