Fast Track To HTML & CSS 101 (Web Design)

• The World Wide Web
• Client side vs. server side
• The web technologies
• Evolution of the World Wide Web
• What is Web 2.0
• Workings of HTTP
• The fundamentals of the web
• What is AJAX?
• The W3C
• Web Standards
• Web Accessibility
• Architecture
• Site architecture
• File and folder management
• Site definition
• Naming conventions
• Defining assets
• Browsers
• What is a Browser?
• Browser Wars
• Netscape to Chrome
• Browser statistics
• A modern browser
• Cross-browser compatibility issues
• Internet Explorer 6 issues
• Mobile browsers
• The syntax
• Tags
• Self-closing tags
• block and inline
• The
• The Different DOCTYPE’s
• What is a DOCTYPE
• HTML5 DOCTYPE
• The DTD
• XML declaration issue
• XHTMLising your code
• Document Object Model
• HTML5 Default options
• The
• Adding Meta tags
• Keywords, Descriptions and Refresh
• The Character Set
• HTML Comments
• Style Tag
• Script Tag
• Document Structure
• Structural Elements
• Headings & Paragraphs
• Semantics
• Lists
• Nested Lists
• Data Types and Definitions
• Special Characters
• The title attribute
• Using the address tag
• cite, dfn, var, abbr
• code, kbd, samp and pre
• Quoting in HTML
• bold, strong, italic and emphasis
• Tables
• Table headers
• Accessibility in Tables
• Nesting Tables
• Adding Captions
• Merging columns and rows
• Web Images
• GIF, JPEG and PNG
• What format do I choose?
• Image attributes
• Alternate text for accessibility
• Figure captioning
• Hyperlinks
• The anchor tag
• Named anchors
• Relative and absolute links
• Linking to an e-mail address
• Forms
• Forms basics
• GET vs. POST
• Text fields
• Setting accessibility labels
• Text area
• Check boxes
• Drop-down lists
• Radio buttons
• Radio groups
• Upload a file
• Fieldset and accessibility
• Submit and reset buttons
• Publishing
• Buying a domain
• Buying hosting space
• File transfer protocol
• Uploading files to a server
• Testing online
• Practical exercises
• Building a “Hello World” page
• Building a small site*

CSS Introduction

• HTML structure and content, CSS presentation
• Advantages of CSS
• Implementing CSS
• CSS Rules: The basic syntax
• Case, whitespace and comments in CSS

The CSS Standards

• The scope of CSS
• Browser support for CSS
• CSS hackarounds

Writing CSS

• CSS selectors
• CSS and HTML structure
• The CSS box model
• The IE box model
• Absolute units
• Proportional units
• Shorthand syntax
• Margins and padding
• Negative margins
• Background images
• Classes and ID’s
• Descendant selectors
• Group selectors
• Block boxes and inline boxes
• Block box behaviour
• Inline box behaviour

Text

• Text formatting in CSS
• Text formatting
• Typefaces, alternatives and defaults
• Text size and usability issues
• Internet Explorer quirks
• Font characteristics
• Setting and using wpace within text
• Formatting blocks of text

Links

• Understanding link states
• Styling link states
• Styling internal Links
• Styling external Links
• Styling links to documents

Stylesheets

• Reset.css
• Modularising CSS stylesheets
• Simpler management, less effort, more control
• Using embedded styles

CSS Positioning

• Choosing the right CSS
• Technique for positioning blocks
• The position property
• The document flow
• Static positioning
• Relative positioning
• Relative positioning with specified values
• Absolute positioning
• Fixed positioning
• The CSS float property
• Clearing floats
• Page layout
• Using CSS in the real world
• Deploying CSS
• Usability
• Readable pages
• The proliferation of screens

Deployment

• CSS 2.1
• CSS3
• Browser support
• Testing
• Using test suites and multiple browsers
• Cross-platform testing in single-platform environments
• CSS help and advice
• Authoritative sources versus web myths and gossip

Practical Exercises

• Styling a simple page
• Styling a small site