HTML- Basic CMP049

"What's your Web address?" The next time you're asked that question, you'll have an answer. You'll create your own Web page, complete with text, formatting, images, lists, and links to other Web sites. Course includes basics about the Web, authoring tools, HTML and (X)HTML the computer language of the Web,and Cascading Style Sheets. CPA/CPE approved.


Prerequisites: Computer Basics and Working With Windows, plus familiarity with the Internet and keyboarding skills or equivalent experience with instructor approval.

Technology update: Please bring a Flash Drive/Memory Stick 512MB or larger to class which will enable you to save your class work.

Textbook:

Books may be purchased at the MC Bookstore or online. You will need to know the CMP#(Continuing Education classes) for the class you are taking in order to look up information about the textbook.

Classroom Hours: 15

Course Content:

HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS
Unit 1: Web Page Building Blocks
Web Browsers, Web Standards, HTML, XHTML
Viewing the source code of a web page
Creating a simple (X)HTML document
Elements, Attributes, Values
Text Content
Links and images
Adding Style Sheets to your web page
Unit 2: Working with Web Page Files
Designing a Web site
Creating an index page or Home page for your site
File names, file management
Unit 3: Basic (X)HTML Structure
The Header:
Declaring the Encoding and creating the foundation
Creating the Title
Styles
The body of the web page:
Breaking up the page using Section Headers, Paragraphs
Naming Elements
Adding Comments
Unit 4: Basic (X)HTML Formatting
Making Text bold or italic
Changing the size of text
Creating superscripts and subscripts
Unit 5: Creating Web Images
About images for the web
Getting images
Saving Images for the web
Image size
Transparency
Web safe colors; named colors, hexidecimal colors
Loading images progressively or interlaced.
Unit 6: Using Images
Inserting images to a web page
Alt text or Alternate text
Image size
Linking an image stamp or thumbnail to a separate larger image
Aligning images
Adding space around images
Text wrapping around images
Unit 7: Links: Absolute Links, Relative Links, Anchor Links
Creating a link to another page
Anchor Links
Targeting Links
Using images as links
Image maps
Unit 8 : Creating Styles
Constructing a Style Rule
Selecting Elements by Name, Class or ID
Selecting Part of an Element
Specifying Groups of Elements
Combining Selectors
Unit 9: Applying Styles
Creating an external stylesheet
Creating an internal stylesheet
Applying styles locally
The importance of location
Unit 10: Formatting with Styles
Font family, italics, bold, size, font values
Setting the text color, text background
Text spacing, indents, aligning text
Unit 11: Layout with Styles
Structuring your pages
Background, foreground color
Borders, padding, margins of Elements
Aligning Elements
Making Elements Float
Unit 13: Lists
Ordered Lists, Unordered lists
Choosing bullets
Definition Lists
Unit 14 : Tables
Mapping out your page
Creating a simple table
Table attributes; border, alignment, cell content alignment,
Background, text wrapping
row span, col span
table in a table
Unit 15, FTP
Publish your web page