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What to expect from this course?
Quick reference
Course Introduction
In this course I'll teach you everything you need to start building websites with HTML.
When to use
HTML is used primarily to create websites. If you're interested in front-end web development, this course is for you.
Instructions
In this introduction video, I'll explain what you can expect from the course, the basic course structure, and I'll describe the two project websites we'll be building.
Hints & tips
- You don't need any prior knowledge or experience to take this course.
- You don't need any special tools to take this course.
- We'll be building two resume type websites towards the end of the course to tie together everything we've learned.
- 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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