Free Web Design Course

This Web Design course will teach you HTML, HTML 5, and Cascading Stylesheeyts (CSS). It is aimed at complete beginners to the subject, and assumes you have no knowledge of creating web pages. (If you were doing the old course, it has now been moved here: old course.) You won't need to buy any expensive software for this course. To see what you WILL need, simply click the Course Software link below. The course has been designed to work on just about any operating system.

Section One: Getting Started
1. Course Introduction 2. Course software 3. What is a HTML and HTML 5?	4. Getting started with tags 5. How to save web pages 6. Viewing your web pages

Section 2: Basic HTML Tags
1. Basic HTML template 2. Heading Tags 3. Paragraph and Break tags	4. Bold and Italics 5. HTML lists

Section 3: Getting started with CSS
1. Introduction to CSS 2. CSS rules 3. Where to put your styles 4. Using CSS selectors 5. Inline and Embedded styles	6. CSS and Fonts 7. Font colours 8. Font sizes 9. Styling Fonts

Section 4: Dealing with Images
1. Types of Images 2. Inserting Images part 1 3. Inserting Images part 2 4. Image Attributes 5. Images and CSS	6. Text wrapping with CSS 7. CSS and image borders 8. Background Images 9. Adding captions to images

Section 5: Linking to other pages
1. Hyperlinks 2. Linking to other pages 3. Other types of hyperlinks	4. CSS and hyperlinks 5. External stylesheets 6. HTML lists and nav bars

Section 6: CSS Layouts
1. The Box Model 2. CSS Comments 3. CSS Positioning 4. CSS floats	5. A one column CSS layout 6. Styling the one column layout 7. Styling HTML 5 tags 8. A two column CSS layout

Section 7: HTML 4 and HTML 5 tables
1. HTML 4 Tables 2. Row and Col span	3. Table alignment, colour, images 4. HTML 5 Tables

Section 8: HTML forms
1. Form Tags 2. Textboxes, Submit, Reset 3. Formatting Textboxes with CSS	4. Labels, Textareas 5. Option buttons and Checkboxes 6. Passwords, hidden fields


Section 9; HTML5 and Forms
1. HTML 5 Forms 2. Placeholders, Required 3. Email, URL, Search 4. Spinners and Sliders 5. Dates, Colour pickers	6. Data Lists 7. HTML Form Layouts 8. HTML 5 Video and Audio 9. The HTML 5 Canvas tag 10. Details, Aside, Mark

Section 10: Getting your site on the internet
1. Websites and Domain Names 2. What to look for when buying Webspace 3. Search engine optimisation	4. Pay per click advertising 5. Sitemaps

Section 11: HTML and CSS Reference
1. Basic HTML Tags 2. CSS Font and Text Properties 3. CSS Borders, Margins, Padding 4. CSS used in the Lists section 5. CSS used in the Positioning section 6. HTML images and hyperlinks	7. HTML5 Layout tags 8. HTML and HTML5 Table tags 9. HTML and HTML5 Form tags 10. HTML5 Video and Audio tags 11. HTML Special Characters