Designed for the student with little to no working knowledge of creating HTML files by hand. If you're looking to learn HTML from scratch or move beyond using a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editing tool, this is the class for you. Students will be introduced to the structure of HTML documents, good markup techniques, and the concept of validation.

Outline

Basics of HTML

• Form the basic structure for an HTML document
• Understand and know which DOCTYPE declaration to use and why
• Know how to insert META tags and why they are needed

Links and Images

• Know how to create links to other pages/sites
• Be able to insert Images into a web page

Tables

• Understand the basic ways a search engine works
• Learn the basic structure of a table
• Learn how to combine table rows and columns for layout

Forms and validation

• Understand the structure of forms
• Be able to create forms that can return the responses via email
• Understand how the validating process works
• Be able to create 'valid' html files according to the W3C specifications

Basics of CSS

• Understand basic CSS
• Be able to incorporate CSS into a web page
• Be able to link a web page to a style sheet
• Be able to create CSS classes that can be re-used throughout a web site

Javascript Basics

• Event Handlers
• Status bar messages
• Images rollovers