Web Design Training Course

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

Projects in Web Design Course

Project1: Simple Brochure website

Using techniques studied during HTML and CSS intro, we will create a simple brochure website with multiple pages. The project will showcase step by step the creation of webpages from scratch, following good practices and Web Standards as well as demonstrating styling and layout techniques. Among other topics, we will focus on creating sticky navigations, creating columns with Flexbox/CSS Grids related properties and how to plan and create a simple gallery.   

Project2: CSS driven gallery

Stretching the boundaries of CSS, we will create an image gallery with CSS only:  disjointed rollover, css positioning, background techniques.

Project3: Personal project

Students will be given time to plan and work on their class project, while the trainer will guide and mentor them to make sure they follow best practices highlighted during the course. At the end of day 4, students will learn how to publish their projects via FTP software like FileZilla.