Design your own website with our 10 week interactive 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 10 week standard course with facilitator interaction 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.
John Gilson, the author of these lessons, is a teacher and Mathematics Department Head 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. Each week, you are e-mailed a new lesson which includes an assignment that you complete over the next 7 days. At that time or within the week, the solutions are e-mailed back to the facilitator to be marked.
By the time you finish this ten week course, you will have a very 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. Dewey from Florida writes, "This is just super, great, good, are there any other words out there to describe your lessons? When I started going through your lessons, I felt I had hit the jackpot. I find your material easy to understand and I know I am learning a little at a time, but learning for sure. I like what you said about learning HTML the right way and I believe your teaching of these HTML lessons is the right way. Thanks John" Dale from California writes, "Thank you for the start you have given me in web design. Your lessons were my first introduction to HTML. Now I am a PAID Web Developer. Now I can't be unemployed. What a great feeling! Thanks again for your lessons!"
You may be wondering why you would need to learn HTML when there are so many programs available that will build web pages for you. Well, this is what two people have written the author of these lessons. These are representative of many similar emails that have been received:
Mat from Idaho writes "I want to thank you for these great lessons. It has proved to be one of the great assets for the building of our page. I started using composer originally and have recently switched to FrontPage. However, I simply would not be able to have created the page I have without being able to understand the code and edit it as I have. Thanks for your great lessons!"
Outcomes:
Upon completion of this HTML course, you will:
* Appreciate the importance of elements and tags in designing web pages.
* Be able to design your own web page complete with links, tables, lists, images, frames and forms.
* 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.
Assessment:
1. Basic knowledge: Each lesson will have a number of questions that are based on the lesson content. These questions are designed to test your understanding of the information presented in each lesson. These questions that test the written content of each lesson will be 40% of the final mark.
2. Problems: Most lessons will have a problem or two for you to solve that involves HTML. These problems are worth 60% of the final mark.
Note: This course is also available as two Lite Self-directed HTML courses - a 6 week introductory course and a 5 week advanced 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 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.
Week 7 :
In this week you will be introduced to color. You will understand how the color codes work, be able to change the text color, the background color and also be able to add an image for the web page background. In this week you will also learn how to add a colorful side bar on your web page.
Week 8 :
This week you will create tables. Besides being useful for summarizing large of amounts of data, tables are also great for structuring information so that your visitors can find what they need quickly and easily. In this week, you will study the parts of a table - the border, cell spacing, cell padding - as well as adding images and links to table cells and changing the background color of individual table cells. You will also study more advanced features of tables such as creating tables with cells that span across two or more columns and across two or more rows. You will also learn to use a table to divide your web page into two or more vertical sections - like you see in magazines and newspapers.
Week 9 :
The main objective of this lesson is to create web pages with frames. You can divide a page into frames with each frame displaying its own web page. You can have links displayed in one frame and when someone clicks on a link, the result will be displayed in another frame. With this lesson on frames, you will gain a thorough understanding of how frames are put together and will be able to create a frames page with ease.
Week 10 :
In this concluding week you will study forms. A form allows you to gather information from a visitor or client for immediate or for later use. The person fills in the form and then submits the information to you. A form is made up of many different elements such as text boxes, password boxes, pop-up menu boxes, radio buttons, check boxes, submit and reset buttons and so on. With this week's lesson, you will learn how each of these form elements work and be able to set up any form element.
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