Learn HTML all by yourself! A 5 week introductory "Lite" course.

Description:
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language and is the language of web page design. If you have little or no experience with HTML, then this 6 week introductory course is the one to take. With these lessons you will have your own web site up and running in no time! Learn to design internet web pages for your favorite charity, for your business, or for your own personal needs.

With these lessons you can get the most out of designing web pages using HTML. Learn all the basic formatting techniques in this introductory course such as using tags, adding links, buttons, lists and images. This course also examines the pitfalls of HTML and what separates good pages from bad pages. You will also study the design elements that should be included and those that should not be included. Making up web pages is easy to learn and we use a structured hands-on approach.

John Gilson, the author of these lessons, has over 25 years of teaching experience and has taught programming courses for several years in both day school and in adult evening education classes. He has taught HTML web page design for the Brant FreeNet, for the Grand-Erie Board of Education and is a Teacher Professional Development HTML workshop presenter.

These lessons have been field tested by many students of all ages. Each time these lessons were presented, John would note the troublesome areas and then make the necessary changes to eliminate these difficulties. These HTML lessons are the culmination of John's efforts to produce the best possible self-learning HTML course available today.

The many examples are clear and easy to follow. There are also many questions for you to answer and web pages for you to make up. All questions and problems come complete with answers and solutions so that you get immediate feedback on how you are progressing. By the time you finish this six week course, you will have a firm understanding of HTML and what HTML is all about. This is the course to take if you have little or no previous experience in HTML.

These lessons have received several awards, including:

* The Golden Crane Creativity Award, 2000 from Creativity - Instructional Resources
* Winner of the 1999-2000 Golden Web Award, voted on by The International Association of Web Masters & Designers!
* Lessons selected by PC Webopaedia as among the best.
* Lessons described in a College of Teachers magazine "Professionally Speaking" as a "remarkable HTML learning resource" - a #1 rating!
* Lessons recognized by Computer Currents Interactive (CCI) based on originality, content and quality.
These are just some of several awards these lessons have received.

Here is an e-mail I received from Brenda who lives in Illinois. She writes: I have printed all of the pages of your lessons and am impressed at the level of information it contains. I can actually understand what you are talking about although I am brand new to HTML. I am teaching myself how to create my company web page using FrontPage and I have an embarrassingly simple web page on Geocities. Some trouble has occurred in FrontPage with extensions and color changes, hence I am trying to learn HTML to correct them. Thank you so much for taking the time to create these lessons. They are fabulous!


Outcomes:
Upon completion of our introductory HTML course, you will:

* Learn the HTML building blocks in web page design.
* Appreciate the importance of elements and tags in designing web pages.
* Be able to design your own web page complete with links, lists and images.
* Be able to format text, links, lists and images.
* Know what separates good pages from bad pages.
* Know what design elements work and which ones to avoid.
* Understand the different versions of HTML that you can design your web pages in.
* Design web pages that can be understood by any browser.


Assessment:
This is a self directed lite course. If you wish to be assessed, there is an assignment that can be completed at the conclusion of the course.

Week 1 :
In this first week you will be introduced to HTML and learn the basics of getting started in web page design. You will learn what you need to begin designing a home page, naming and saving your web page, and loading your web page into your browser.

Week 2 :
This week you will study the basic tags used in making web pages and the correct use of tags. HTML works in a very straight forward manner. You type in your text and your tags. A tag tells the computer what to do with the text. To get large print, centered text, bold text, text in italics, indented sentences, colored text, etc. is nothing more than inserting tags around your text. The objective in this lesson is to study all the basic tags used in creating web pages.

Week 3 :
In this week you will study tags that affect the appearance of text. How a web page appears in one browser may be different to how it appears in another browser. Therefore, web pages should be designed with both appearance and content in mind. This lesson begins with a study of designing web pages around content and appearance. This lesson also introduces the heading tags, how to center text, and how to emphasize text.

Week 4 :
The main objective of this lesson is to learn to create lists. Lists are often used to present information in an easy to read fashion. Lists can also be used to indent information. Lists can be bulleted, numbered, or printed without bullets and numbers. The objective this week is to learn how to make these popular lists.

Week 5 :
This week you learn all about links. You use links to connect to other web pages anywhere on the internet, to connect your own web pages together and to jump from section to section within the same web page.

Week 6 :
In this final week you will learn all about images, their different formats and how to include them in your web pages. It is the ability of the internet to provide images that makes it so very popular. Images are called pictures, graphics, clip art, icons, etc. There are millions of images out there and many are free for you to use.

If you like this introductory course, we invite you to complete also our 5 week advanced HTML course written by the same author, John Gilson. See our advance HTML course listing for a list of topics.

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