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Intermediate HTML

Introduction

This course is designed for folks who have some knowledge of HTML but feel limited because your web pages don't look professional or there are effects you just don't know how to achieve using HTML.

You will learn how to create an attractive, coordinated overall style for your pages, how to design complex page layouts, how to create forms for users to send you feedback and personal information, and how to incorporate useful pre-written scripts and programs into your pages.

The first lesson deals with Cascading Style Sheets. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS for short) allow you to govern design elements such as font sizes and styles, borders, positioning of page elements and page backgrounds. The bigger your website is, the more essential it is for you to use a style sheet in order to provide a consistent look and feel for all your HTML pages.

Next, we will apply the CSS skills from the first lesson, and combine them with new skills in constructing complex tables and inline frames to give your web pages the professional look of a site like the one you're on now.

Even if you're not a programmer, you can make your pages do more sophisticated tasks by incorporating scripts into your pages. There are whole libraries of categorized scripts available for the downloading, and in this course you'll learn how to take advantage of this online cornucopia.

Finally, you'll learn how to build and process forms. Every time you use a search engine, order something online, or register for a newsletter you are filling in an HTML form. Now you'll be able to have your own forms on your own website.