Introduction to HTML and CSS

This 2 day course will give you an introduction to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) - the language of the world wide web.

You will learn how to write your own web pages and to style them using Cascading Stylesheets (CSS).

Introducing HTML

• What is HTML?


• HTML and the internet


• HTML and browsers


• HTML page structure


• Writing your first HTML document


• Adding Headings


• Adding Paragraphs

Introducing CSS

• What is CSS?


• Inline vs seperate file


• Some CSS basics

Adding links, images and multimedia

• Creating links


• Embedding images


• Image formats


• Image maps

More HTML formatting

• Lists


• Preformatted text

HTML Tables

• Data vs layout tables


• Displaying tabular data


• Layout using HTML tables


• colspan and rowspan


• Formatting table data

More CSS

• Reference by ID


• Reference by class


• and


• Changing the appearance of text


• Background colours and background images


• The box model


• Borders, margins and padding

Advanced topics: HTML Forms

• Why use HTML forms?


• HTML form elements


• Calling server side code


• Using JavaScript for form validation