HTML & CSS 101: Hypertext Markup Language

27 videos | 110 minutes | by WickedlySmart

Join Elisabeth Robson and Eric Freeman as they embark on a fun project: creating a fully functional and attractive website using HTML5 and CSS...

We all spend a lot of time visiting websites. It's where we get information, learn new skills (like at MPV!) and do our shopping. A well-designed web site is much like a beautiful house, with its well-planned layout and attractive look & feel that makes it appealing and comfortable. Great web design is what Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Robson are all about! And in this course—the second course of their multi-part series covering HTML and CSS—you'll start creating your "home on the web", step by step, using nothing but a text editor!

Think of a website's wireframe as an architect’s blueprint: this is where you decide where everything will go and what space it will occupy. Like building a house, it's important to get your website mapped out and diagrammed before you start putting in the all-important contents! Elisabeth and Eric show you the ins and outs of this process and explain all the important things you need to keep in mind during a site’s design phase.

Next it's time to start adding the details that give your site its unique look: CSS to the rescue! Our web design experts walk you through the writing of your first line of CSS, to give you a taste of what's to come...on your way to creating an awesome-looking and fully functional website!

Stay tuned for the next part of this multi-course series on HTML and CSS and be sure to check out our ever-expanding library of web design courses below: