Web Development with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript

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Course Overview

Modern organizations depend heavily on the web to perform core business operations such as marketing, advertising, and selling products, providing services, and communicating with customers, partner organizations, and employees. Whatever you're creating on the web, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript™ likely play an important role. These three languages provide the core toolkit for anyone looking to perform web development work. This course covers the fundamentals of web development using these three languages.

Who Should Attend

While no prior programming or web development experience is required, target students should have good foundational computer skills.

Course Objectives

    • Set up the tools and resources you need to perform Web Development.
    • Create web pages in HTML, constructing valid, well-formed elements, including navigation links, sections, titles, and semantic markup.
    • Enhance HTML content with tables, images, movies, and audio.
    • Apply styles to HTML elements using CSS.
    • Use CSS to format the edges, size, position, and layering of HTML elements.
    • Apply complex style rules using advanced CSS selectors, including pseudo-class selectors, structural selectors, and pseudo-element selectors.
    • Create complex layouts using CSS newspaper style columns, grid layouts, and flexible box layouts.
    • Improve the quality of web content, including adaptability (different displays and devices), searchability, usability, and accessibility.
    • Submit data through URL query strings and web forms for processing by a web application server.
    • Write JavaScript code to make web pages more interactive, perform data processing tasks directly in the browser, and manipulate items in the current web page.
    • Write JavaScript code to iterate through collections of elements in a page to get and set their attributes and add event listener code.
    • Use third-party libraries and frameworks for web front-end development.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Setting Up Your Web Development Environment

  • Topic A: Prepare Your Web Platform
  • Topic B: Prepare Your Web Development Tools and Processes
  • Topic C: Monitor the Web Request-Response Cycle

Lesson 2: Creating Web Content in HTML

  • Topic A: Create a Basic Web Page
  • Topic B: Provide Navigation Links Between Web Pages
  • Topic C: Improve Web Page Structure and Navigation

Lesson 3: Adding Tables and Multimedia Content to a Web Page

  • Topic A: Create a Table
  • Topic B: Embed Images, Movies, and Audio in a Web Page

Lesson 4: Applying Styles to Web Content

  • Topic A: Apply Styles to HTML
  • Topic B: Create a Style Sheet
  • Topic C: Use Web Fonts

Lesson 5: Controlling Edges, Size, and Position

  • Topic A: Format Element Edges and Corners
  • Topic B: Control an Element's Height and Width
  • Topic C: Control an Element's Position and Layering
  • Topic D: Normalize and Reset Browser CSS Defaults

Lesson 6: Applying Complex Style Rules

  • Topic A: Use Advanced Selectors
  • Topic B: Manage User Interface States
  • Topic C: Make Structure Apparent to Users
  • Topic D: Use CSS Pseudo-Element Selectors

Lesson 7: Creating Complex Layouts

  • Topic A: Use CSS to Create Newspaper Style Columns
  • Topic B: Use CSS to Create Grid Layouts
  • Topic C: Use CSS to Create Flexible Box Layouts

Lesson 8: Improving Web Content

  • Topic A: Adjust the Layout for a Wide Variety of Devices
  • Topic B: Perform Basic Search Engine Optimization
  • Topic C: Test Your Website

Lesson 9: Submitting Data to a Web Server for Processing

  • Topic A: Submit Data Through a URL
  • Topic B: Submit Data Through a Web Form

Lesson 10: Writing JavaScript Code

  • Topic A: Add JavaScript to a Web Page
  • Topic B: Perform Operations on Data
  • Topic C: Program Repetitive Tasks
  • Topic D: Manipulate DOM Objects

Lesson 11: Enumerating and Processing Collections of Elements

  • Topic A: Enumerate Elements
  • Topic B: Attach Events Through Code

Lesson 12: Using Third-Party Libraries and Frameworks

  • Topic A: Use a Third-Party JavaScript Library
  • Topic B: Create a Web Page Based on a Third-Party Framework

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Class Dates & Times

Class times are listed Eastern time

This is a 4-day class

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Register 07/28/2025 9:00AM - 5:00PM Online VILT
Register 10/06/2025 9:00AM - 5:00PM Online VILT

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