FREE
course
Modern layout fundamentals
38 students
Course updated
09 August 2022
Included in the course
12 lessons (video or text)
5 exercises in the IDE
32 quizzes
Assistance in «Discussions» on the website
What you will learn
- Learn the fundamentals of web design: how to design static web pages and style elements
- Understand how to debug code step-by-step for quick error detection
- Use code editors with plugins, such as Emmet, that help in coding
- Publish your website on GitHub Pages hosting
Description
Creation of modern interfaces involves not only the latest technology, but also the global standards for these interfaces. In order to better understand the reasons and consequences of their appearance, and use them wisely in our projects, we will introduce the professional terminology and basic concepts of markup languages and styles of HTML and CSS
Lessons
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2
Intro to HTML
Learn how to design HTML from scratch. We talk about the role of attributes and study the general scheme of defining HTML tags -
4
Semantic HTML
The main goal of any HTML layout is to convey the context of the blocks. In this lesson, we'll look at the semantic capabilities of the latest HTML5 standard and learn about accessibility on the web -
5
Basic structure of HTML document
Every HTML document has a basic structure made up of tags and special elements. The browser needs them to properly display an information. In this lesson, we'll look at each part of that structure -
6
CSS fundamentals
The CSS language was created to manage the visuals of a web page. Explore the basic features of stylesheets and learn to use it with HTML. Learn to link CSS files and discover the basic types of selectors -
7
CSS Cascading
What is cascading and how does it work in CSS? This lesson focuses on the selector precedence and using them in your projects -
8
Chrome DevTools
When designing a website, it is important to find errors just in time or understand how to properly convert the block we need. Previously, most of this was done manually. Today, modern browsers have a web inspector function. Consider the capabilities of one of them - Chrome DevTools -
9
Code editors
To save the results of your work, you need a code editor. In this lesson, you'll learn how to install Visual Studio Code. This is a powerful tool that can be used not only for layout, but also for coding in any programming language -
11
Publication on the Internet
To upload your project on the Internet, you need to use a hosting service - a special server that will store files and provide access to them via domain name. In this tutorial, we will explore GitHub, a free hosting service -
12
Graphic editors
There are several major editors on the market. Some of them are designed for one operating system only, others can be installed on any of them. In this unit, let's look at the HTML/CSS developer's basic steps when working with Figma, a graphic online editor -
13
Do it yourself
Additional tasks that help consolidate the theory you've learned -
14
Additional resources
Materials were picked up by the Hexlet team. This will give you a more in-depth understanding of the topic