HTML

HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language

Overview
This course is for students new to HTML. It begins with an introduction to web technologies and then provides a comprehensive overview of HTML.

Audience
This course is for anyone who needs to understand how HTML is used to develop pages for the World Wide Web.

Course Objectives

• Learn the basics of Web development
• Learn the difference between HTML and XHTML
• Explain the structure of a simple HTML page
• Apply HTML tags for overall page structure
• Build ordered and unordered lists in a simple HTML page
• Build HTML pages that have the ability to link back and forth
• Learn to create links in HTML documents
• Add images to HTML documents
• Create HTML tables and Forms

Class Outline

A Quick Overview of Web Development

• Client-side Programming
• Server-side Programming
• Introduction to HTML

Getting Started

• A Simple HTML Document
• The HTML Skeleton
• HTML Elements
• XHTML vs. HTML
• Special Characters
• lang and xml:lang

Paragraphs, Headings and Text

• Paragraphs
• Breaks and Horizontal Rules
• Creating an HTML Page
• Quoted Text
• Preformatted Text
• Phrase Elements
• Formatting Elements
• Documenting Changes

HTML Links

• Text Links
• Absolute vs. Relative Paths
• Targeting New Windows
• Email Links
• Adding Links
• Anchors
• The title Attribute

HTML Images

• Inserting Images
• Image Links
• Adding Images to the Page

HTML Lists

• Unordered Lists
• Ordered Lists
• Definition Lists
• Creating Lists

HTML Tables

• Creating Tables
• Attributes
• Merging Cells
• Creating Tables

HTML Forms

• How HTML Forms Work
• The <form> Tag
• Form Elements
• Creating a Registration Form
• Adding Checkboxes and Radio Buttons
• Adding a Select Menu and a Textarea