Learn The Basics of Web Development: Free HTML Course- 1 of 5

I'll be running the course: HTML for Beginners (with HTML5) in five live sessions. The class will be in a blended format, so, if you miss a session or two, online versions of the lecture will keep you caught up. During class time there will be lecture and demonstration as well as time to work on your HTML skills in a mentored environment.

Here is the couse outline:

Chapter One: Welcome to HTML
1.1 Web Development Technologies
1.2 Hello World with HTML
1.3 Basic Document Structure HTML4.01/XHTML
1.4 Basic Document Structure HTML5
1.5 Using Comments in HTML
1.6 HTML Head Elements

Chapter Two: Text Markup
2.1 Text Markup
2.2 Div and Span Tags
2.3 HTML5 Text Markup Tags
2.4 Selecting Text Color, Fonts and Font Sizes
2.5 Text Alignment, Decoration, Indentation and Text Transformation

Chapter Three: Working with Lists
3.1 Ordered Lists
3.2 Unordered Lists
3.3 CSS for Lists

Chapter Four: Creating HTML Links
4.1 Creating Internal and External Links
4.2 Creating Anchors
4.3 Styling Links with CSS Pseudo-Classes

Chapter Five: Working with Images and Media
5.1 Displaying Images/Image Links/Image Styling with CSS
5.2 HTML5 Audio Embeds
5.3 HTML5 Video Embeds

Chapter Six: HTML Tables
6.1 Creating Tables with HTML
6.2 Styling Tables with CSS

Chapter Seven: HTML Forms
7.1 Creating Text Form Elements
7.2 Creating Radio Button and Checkbox Elements
7.3 New HTML5 Form Elements
7.4 Creating Multi-Select Elements

Chapter Eight: Understanding the CSS Box Model
8.1 Understanding the Content Box Model
8.2 Working with Margin, Padding and Borders

Chapter Nine: CSS Based Page Layout
9.1 Inline vs Block Level Elements & Positioning Divs
9.2 Float and Clear
9.3 Creating a CSS Navigation Bar

All you need to participate is a lap top with a web browser or two. Mac, PC, Linux are all fine!