Introduction to HTML for Designers
Understanding HTML is key to being able to design and build great websites. In this course we'll gain a deeper understanding of HTML by creating content such as lists, images with captions, special characters and all kinds of elements related to building complex content like forms and tables.
What you'll learn
Understanding HTML is key to being able to design and build great websites. In this course we'll gain a deeper understanding of HTML by creating content such as lists, images with captions, special characters and all kinds of elements related to building complex content like forms and tables.We'll also discuss some important concepts like how to use phrase elements correctly for more meaningful and expressive content, building an outline with HTML, what HTML5 is, and where to go for information on web standards and when you need help writing your own HTML. We'll also discuss best practices such as checking for errors by validating your HTML and where and how to start testing for cross browser compatibility. By the time this course is over you'll have the knowledge you need to start writing your own HTML from scratch. For an additional learning resource, download your free copy of our Key Web Terms Reference Guide and PDF so you can get comfortable with important web design terminology.
Table of contents
- Understanding Web Site Folder Structure and setting up our project 5m
- Creating Our HTML Page 5m
- Adding Some Content: Headings, Paragraphs, and Images 6m
- Creating Captions For Images With the fig and figcaption Tags 5m
- Creating Unordered Lists With the ul and li Tags 4m
- Creating a Different Type of List: Ordered Lists With the ol and li Tags 5m
- Organizing Information With a Table 9m
- Creating a Form 8m
- Choosing Appropriate Types For Form Input Fields 9m
- Creating Input Fields For Dates and Adding Buttons 8m
- Introducing Phrase Elements: Add Additional Semantic Meaning to Text 5m
- Adding Special Characters and Symbols With Character Entities 5m
- Making Our Web Page Into a Web Site 8m
- HTML as an Outline 7m
- What is HTML5? 5m
- Using HTML References 6m
- Validation and Cross Browser Compatibility 6m
About the author
Susan is a web design tutor for Pluralsight. Growing up, Susan was both a passionate artist as well as a computer tech aficionado. When she discovered the world of web development, she found that she could meld those two passions together into something amazing. Soon after, Susan began devoting herself to building beautiful and functional web content for businesses and nonprofits. It was through those experiences Susan developed a fluency for web coding languages. Since then, Susan has develo... more