Web Fundamentals: HTML, CSS and HTTP

How the web works and how pages are built: HTTP, URLs, semantic HTML, CSS layout, responsive design and accessibility basics.

WEB-101 Year 1 3 credits 12 lessons planned ▶ Video lessons coming soon

Offered by HSM University · Web Development

Course content

  1. 1How the web works: clients, servers and HTTPComing
  2. 2URLs, DNS and the request-response cycleComing
  3. 3HTML documents and semantic structureComing
  4. 4Links, images, lists and tablesComing
  5. 5Forms and input elementsComing
  6. 6CSS selectors, the cascade and specificityComing
  7. 7The box model and typographyComing
  8. 8Layout with FlexboxComing
  9. 9Layout with CSS GridComing
  10. 10Responsive design and media queriesComing
  11. 11Accessibility basics and validationComing
  12. 12Capstone: a multi-page responsive siteComing

Description

How the web works and how pages are built: HTTP, URLs, semantic HTML, CSS layout, responsive design and accessibility basics.

Part of the Information Technology stream, typically taken in year 1.