What you'll learn:
- Create structured web pages with HTML, including links, images, tables, forms, multimedia, and semantic elements.
- Style website layouts with CSS, using selectors, the box model, positioning, typography, animations, and responsive media queries.
- Write and debug JavaScript programs using variables, conditions, loops, functions, objects, arrays, and built-in tools.
- Build practical website projects, including an HTML contact page, portfolio layout, Bootstrap templates, and a jQuery to-do list.
- Explain and apply introductory website SEO concepts, including technical, on-page, and off-page considerations.
- 1. Use ChatGPT to assist with web-page and WordPress tasks, including the page, post, plugin, and theme examples covered in the course.
Learn Web Design with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Practical Projects
Start building your understanding of website design, one page at a time. This web design course introduces the technologies used to structure, style, and add behavior to websites, with explanations, examples, assignments, and projects to help you practice.
You will begin with the foundations of web design and work through HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Along the way, you will explore responsive layouts, Bootstrap website templates, jQuery, website SEO, and an introduction to creating web content and WordPress examples with ChatGPT.
The course is designed for beginners who want to understand how websites work and gain experience writing the code behind them. You do not need previous programming knowledge, but you should be ready to follow the examples, experiment, and complete the practice activities.
Understand the Principles Behind Website Design
A useful website starts with decisions about its content, layout, and visual presentation.
Explore what makes a website look professional and how color, typography, and visual hierarchy influence the experience of using a page. Learn the difference between web design and web development, and understand how front-end, back-end, and full-stack roles fit into the wider development process.
These introductory lessons give you context for the coding work that follows. As you build pages, you can connect the technical instructions to the design choices you are making.
Create Web Pages with HTML
Learn how HTML organizes the content of a website. Start with document structure, tags, elements, and attributes, then practice working with headings, paragraphs, text formatting, quotations, and comments.
Create links between pages, understand relative and absolute paths, and add images to your content. Work with ordered, unordered, and description lists, along with tables, captions, and cells.
Explore classes and IDs, character encoding, iframes, and the HTML head. Learn how titles, metadata, styles, and scripts fit into a page.
You will also study semantic HTML and compare different ways of organizing website layouts. These lessons help you move from individual elements toward a page with a recognizable structure.
Build Forms and Add Multimedia
Websites often need more than text and images. Learn how HTML forms are assembled using inputs, labels, radio buttons, checkboxes, dropdowns, text areas, and buttons.
Explore form attributes and submission concepts, including action, name, GET, POST, autocomplete, and validation-related settings.
Work with audio and video elements and learn about their attributes and events. You will also see how embedded content, such as YouTube videos, can be included in a page.
The HTML portion includes two named mini projects: an HTML contact-information page and an HTML portfolio layout. Use these to practice combining the elements you have studied.
Style Your Websites with CSS
Discover how CSS controls a page’s appearance. Learn its syntax, selectors, comments, colors, backgrounds, units, and sizing.
Explore different ways of selecting elements, including attribute selectors and combinators. Work with fonts, text, buttons, shadows, gradients, and opacity to change the presentation of your content.
Study the CSS box model and how borders, padding, margins, and outlines affect the space around elements. Explore positioning, display, overflow, visibility, floats, and columns, then examine specificity and how competing style rules are resolved.
These topics help you understand why a page looks the way it does and how to make deliberate changes to its design.
Explore Responsive Web Design and Visual Effects
Learn how responsive web design accounts for different screen sizes. The course includes introductory responsive-design material and practical CSS media-query lessons.
Explore pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements, followed by two-dimensional and three-dimensional transforms, transitions, and animations.
Apply CSS to familiar website components, including navigation bars, dropdown menus, forms, tables, lists, links, and pagination. These examples connect individual properties to elements you will recognize from everyday websites.
You will also work through website-template examples using HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap, giving you another way to practice assembling a page.
Learn JavaScript Fundamentals
JavaScript adds programming behavior to the front end of a website. Begin with its syntax, variables, statements, input and output, and common operators.
Learn about let, const, and var, then explore data types and type conversion. Practice making decisions with conditions and switch statements.
Work through loops, functions, parameters, arguments, and variable scope. Study code-writing guidance and debugging concepts so you can begin investigating problems in your own solutions.
The course also covers objects, properties, methods, strings, numbers, arrays, Boolean values, the Math object, and Date objects. These subjects provide a foundation for understanding the JavaScript examples that follow.
Practice with 30 JavaScript Exercises
Develop your problem-solving skills through 30 JavaScript exercises with solutions.
Try each task before reviewing its solution. Compare your approach with the demonstrated code, then experiment with different values or small changes to the problem.
Use the exercises to revisit concepts such as conditions, loops, functions, and data handling. Regular practice helps you identify which ideas you understand and which need another look.
Add Website Features with jQuery
Learn how to set up jQuery using a downloaded file or a CDN, then explore its syntax, selectors, and events.
Work with effects such as showing, hiding, fading, and sliding elements. Study callbacks, chaining, animation, and stopping effects.
Practice changing page content, inserting and removing elements, working with classes and styles, and reading or updating text, HTML, and form values.
This part of the course includes a jQuery to-do list project, giving you a practical example of combining page structure and interactive behavior.
Understand Website SEO Foundations
Explore why search engine optimization matters and how it relates to website development.
The SEO section introduces the process of SEO and distinguishes technical, on-page, and off-page approaches. Use these lessons to build an initial understanding of the factors a website owner should consider when presenting content to users and search engines.
This is foundational SEO coverage within a broader web design course. It gives you a starting point for further learning and for reviewing the websites you create.
Explore Website Creation with ChatGPT
The final section introduces ways to use ChatGPT in web-development activities.
Follow examples involving web-page generation and WordPress tasks, including posts, pages, plugins, and themes. These lessons show additional ways to approach website work after you have studied the underlying HTML, CSS, and JavaScript concepts.
When practicing with generated output, read the code, try it in a suitable test environment, and check whether it behaves as intended. Your understanding of the fundamentals will help you evaluate suggestions and identify changes that are needed.
Who This Course Is For
This course is suitable for beginners learning web design, students exploring front-end web development, and freelancers who want to strengthen their knowledge of website structure and styling.
It can also help business owners, marketers, and designers understand how web pages are created and how common website features fit together.
Bring a computer, a browser, a code editor, and time to practice. Work through the course at your own pace, complete the available assignments and practice test, and use the projects as starting points for your own experiments.
By completing the lessons and practice, you will build a foundation in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, responsive website design, and related tools that you can continue developing through further projects.
