Course Details

Web Design course overview

This course explains how to create web pages from scratch using different techniques, such as HTML5, CSS3, basic JavaScript using professional tools and workflow, as well as following high coding standards. After completing our web design course, you would be able to create HTML websites yourself.

The complete course is hands-on based. A practical web design project at the end of the course will ensure that you go through website creation process by planning, creating structure, coding, using different web design software, buying you website a domain name, hosting and uploading website to a live server.

This short HTML and CSS course is hands-on, instructor-led and classroom based. This training can be taken as a part-time evening course or even on the weekends.

Who is Web Design training for?

This course is for you if you are interested in creating or maintaining websites for yourself or for others. This course also helps business owners to get more control and insight into their website. This course is designed for complete beginners of web design. No previous coding background is required.

If you are looking for HTML course and CSS training course then this web design course is for you.

Prerequisites for Web Design course

To attend this course you must be familiar with basic use of computers and internet. You must be able to create/copy/rename/delete folders and files on your computer. Typing skills are beneficial. If you are not fully familiar with such topics, please make sure you have some practice before course starts.

Keep in mind weekday courses are very intensive; if you have little or no experience at all, please consider enrolling on evening or weekend courses.

Web Design Course Contents

HTML

Introduction

• Introduction to HTML, CSS, JS and Web Design
• Web editors and IDEs
• Web Design and websites structure
• Client side vs Server side
• Separation of concerns: content vs presentation vs behaviour

HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)

• HTML5 intro
• HTML page structure
• HTML tags
• HTML attributes and values
• View HTML source code
• Emmet plugin to automate HTML coding

HTML Meta and in-site SEO

• What are HTML Meta tags
• Role of HTML in search engine optimisation
• HTML keywords and importance in SEO
• Description meta tag
• Author meta tag
• Keywords meta tag
• Robots meta tag
• Title tag

HTML Text

• How to use text on HTML web pages
• HTML comments
• Headings
• Paragraphs
• Div tags
• Span tags
• deprecated presentational tags

Working with image tag

• Img tag
• Adding images
• Alternative text, titles and descriptions for images
• Create image links
• Images formats for web: PNG, JPEG/JPG, SVG etc

HTML Hyperlinks 

• Anchor tag
• Internal links vs External links
• Creating Links to 
• Creating a link around an image

HTML Lists

• What is a list?
• Ordered lists
• Unordered lists
• List items
• Creating navigations with lists of anchors

HTML Tables

• We do not use tables for websites anymore
• Tables in Email Design
• Table tag
• Table attributes
• Adding rows and columns to tables
• TR, TH, TD tags
• Defining padding and spacing
• Merging rows or columns with colspan and rowspan

HTML Multimedia intro

• Adding youtube videos to web pages
• Adding Google maps to web pages

HTML Form

• Form tag intro
• Creating forms
• Form get and post method
• Form action
• Creating fieldsets and legends
• Creating HTML Form text boxes
• Creating password boxes
• Using form Labels
• Creating text areas
• Creating radio buttons
• Creating checkboxes
• Creating List menus
• How to create a file upload
• Use of hidden fields
• Creating form submit button
• Form reset button

CSS

CSS (cascading style sheet)

• What is CSS?
• Separating content from presentation
• Role of CSS in web design
• CSS comments
• CSS best practices
• Inline vs Internal vs External CSS
• Link tag 
• A
• CSS stylesheets: rulesets, selectors, rules, properties

Styling text and inline elements using CSS

• Styling inline elements, text, links, images
• Defining text colour
• Text decoration and other text-related properties
• Font size and other font-related properties
• Word-spacing, Letter-spacing, line height and other typographic properties

Styling block level elements using CSS

• Block elements sizing and size units
• Background colours and background images properties
• Margin and Padding properties
• Traditional Box Model vs modern Box Model
• Keeping track of links
• Create website navigation using CSS

Layout techniques in modern CSS

• How to use Div
• Fixed vs fluid vs elastic layouts
• Intro to Responsive layouts
• Aligning items horizontally and vertically
• Creating columns
• Flexbox intro
• CSS Grid intro
• CSS position: static, relative, absolute, sticky, fixed
• Using z-index to simulate the third dimension

Publishing/Uploading websites

• Domain Names for websites
• CPanel intro
• Web Servers Introduction
• Uploading and Downloading to and from your website
• Protocols FTP, HTTP

HTML web page troubleshooting

• Testing your web pages
• Viewing source code from browsers
• Inspecting web page elements
• Markup and CSS Validation tools
• CSS linters

JavaScript

Introduction to JavaScript

• Intro to JavaScript
• Inspectors, console panel and JavaScript
• Events and Handlers