HTML5 and CSS Fundamentals

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Free Online Course: HTML5 and CSS Fundamentals provided by edX is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 6 weeks long, 4-6 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from edX. HTML5 and CSS Fundamentals is taught by Dale A. Schouten, Anusha Muthiah and Chris Perkins.

Overview
  • This course is part of W3C's "Front-End Web Developer" Professional Certificate.

    Learn the basic building blocks of Web design and style – HTML5 and CSS – to give your site a professional look and feel. We guide you step-by-step in how to use the latest Web standards to create a site to be proud of.

    By the end of the course, you should understand all the fundamental elements – from headers and links to images and sidebars – and leave having built a basic framework for your own Web site.

    This course has been initially developed by Dale A. Schouten, Anusha Muthiah and Christopher Perkins, as part of a partnership between W3C and Intel®.

Syllabus
  • Module 1: My first Web page
    - The big three: HTML5, CSS and JavaScript
    - Elements, tags and attributes
    - Character encoding
    - Best practices

    Module 2: Attributes, images and links
    - Attributes
    - Semantic meaning
    - Images
    - Hyperlinks

    Module 3: Adding style with CSS

    - CSS basic syntax
    - CSS properties
    - Lists and selectors

    Module 4: Fixing and debugging
    - Debugging tools and HTML5
    - Debugging and the CSS box model
    - Debugging CSS precedence

    Module 5: More HTML5 and CSS
    - Tables
    - Multimedia
    - Embedding content
    - CSS tricks

    Module 6: Basics of page layout
    - Concepts
    - CSS Flexbox
    - CSS Grid
    - Recipe project