HTML
HTML – HyperText Markup Language – is the foundation of the web, as well as the language used to create marketing emails, ebooks, help systems, kiosk installations etc - you want to create web pages you’re going to have to understand it – good HTML makes good sites, good search results, happy users.
Also, HTML comes in different flavours – plain HTML, XHTML, HTML 5 – you’ll need to understand the differences so you can make the right decisions…
Don’t want to bodge it – learn HTML with Andrew. A day spent on HTML and you’ll know about:
The World Wide Web Consortium and Web Standards
What is HTML
- HTML
- XML
- XHML
- HTML 5
- HTML for emails
- HTML and accessibility
- About Doctypes and rendering modes
- The vast world of browsers
Creating and testing pages
- Creating HTML
- Tools for creating HTML
- Testing HTML pages
- About different browsers
- About HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- About Character entities
HTML and Structure
- Headings
- Lists
- Paragraphs and line breaks
- Divs
- Tables
- Other structural elements
HTML 5 structural elements
- Working with HTML 5 and older browsers
- Headers
- Hgroups
- Navigation
- Footer
- Articles
- Asides
- Time elements
About Hyperlinks
- Absolute and relative paths
- Linking to other sites
- Linking to pages in your site
- Links within a page
- Email links
Images and HTML
- Graphics formats
- Adding images
- Images and accessibility
- Links and images
- About buttons
- Image Maps
Other media and behaviours
- About plug-ins and flash
- About JavaScript
- Adding Flash
- Using JavaScript
HTML5 and Media
- Understanding HTML 5 media tags
- Canvas
- Audio
- Video
Understanding Forms
- How forms work
- Creating forms
Creating HTML newsletters
- Using tables for layout
- Using the font element
- Preparing an HTML email for publication