Course Introduction

Quick reference

• 00:04 All right, welcome to intro to HTML for web development, my name is John Elder and
• 00:07 I'll be your instructor today.
• 00:09 In this course, I'm gonna teach you everything you need to know to start
• 00:11 building really cool websites with HTML.
• 00:13 HTML is a fundamental building block of the internet.
• 00:16 There's not a single website that's ever been built or
• 00:19 will ever be built that doesn't use HTML.
• 00:21 In fact you can go to any website, and right click anywhere on the page, and
• 00:24 click this View page source.
• 00:26 And you can see all of the HTML that's used to build that webpage.
• 00:30 This course is aimed to be absolute beginner,
• 00:32 you don't need any special knowledge or prior knowledge, or
• 00:35 any experience whatsoever to start building websites in HTML.
• 00:39 And it's really fast and easy, and we're gonna jump right in, and
• 00:41 you're gonna see just how quick it is to start building some pretty cool websites.
• 00:45 So I wanna take the rest of this video just to spend a couple of minutes and
• 00:48 talk about what to expect throughout the course.
• 00:51 Basically, this course is split into two parts, in the first part,
• 00:54 we're gonna talk about basic HTML syntax.
• 00:57 I'm gonna teach you just what is HTML and how to use it.
• 01:00 We'll start out just learning the basic structure of a website, what do you
• 01:03 need to build a website, what are the tags you need to build a basic website.
• 01:07 And then we'll get into, sort of, common HTML elements, common HTML tags.
• 01:11 You'll learn things like how to create paragraphs, and line breaks,
• 01:15 and headings, this Hiking Log heading, and things like that.
• 01:19 After that, we'll talk about text formatting, how to make things bold,
• 01:22 how to make things italicized, how to make texts small and do blockquotes and
• 01:26 things like that.
• 01:27 After that we'll talk about special characters and that's like down here
• 01:30 at the bottom you see this little copy right sign, that's special character, and
• 01:34 HTML handle those a certain way and you'll all about that.
• 01:37 After that we'll spend just a minute talking about CSS,
• 01:39 we're not gonna learn CSS in this course, I will reference
• 01:42 some CSS things from time to time because HTML and CSS really do go together.
• 01:47 In fact if you enjoy this course, I definitely recommend
• 01:50 after this course taking a course on CSS and learning all about that.
• 01:53 We'll just sort of briefly discuss how CSS and HTML work together,
• 01:57 we'll use a little bit of CSS but nothing really major.
• 02:01 After that we'll move into sort of more advanced HTML topics,
• 02:04 we'll talk about building tables and list and all kinds of things like that.
• 02:09 After that we'll talk about HTML forms like contact forms,
• 02:12 that's sort of the most advanced type of thing that we'll get into in this course.
• 02:16 After that we'll switch into the second half of the course where we actually start
• 02:19 building websites.
• 02:19 And we're gonna build two simple websites in this course, and
• 02:23 they're both gonna be resume websites.
• 02:25 You may be learning HTML just cuz you think it'll be fun, but
• 02:28 you may be looking for a new career or a job.
• 02:30 In which case you'll need a resume, and if you wanna be a web developer,
• 02:34 your resume needs to be online, probably, so we're gonna build some resume websites.
• 02:37 The first one you can see here is just very basic, but
• 02:40 it's using something called Bootstrap, and that's a CSS framework that allows
• 02:45 you to do all kinds of cool styling really easily.
• 02:47 And we're gonna learn how to use Bootstrap, and
• 02:50 then we'll learn how to use it to make our simple resume website.
• 02:53 After that we will create a slightly more advanced resume website,
• 02:57 and we'll do that using an HTML template, so I'll teach you all about templates.
• 03:01 What they're good for, what they're not good for,
• 03:02 how to use them, how to find them.
• 03:03 We'll talk about paying for them versus finding free ones,
• 03:06 this one is definitely gonna be a free one.
• 03:08 And you can see it's just a basic, and there's a picture at the top,
• 03:12 we've got a nice heading, and it's slightly different formatting,
• 03:15 little bit more professional looking.
• 03:17 And actually, using this template is even easier than using Bootstrap,
• 03:21 even though it looks like a more professional difficult website to build,
• 03:25 it was actually much easier.
• 03:26 So that's sorta what's to expect from this course, it's gonna be a lot of fun,
• 03:29 I think you're gonna be very surprised how quick it is to learn this stuff,
• 03:33 I mean in just a few minutes we're gonna be up and running.
• 03:35 So looking forward to it, I hope you're excited,
• 03:37 I'm excited to be teaching this today and let's get started.

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