- College Credit
- Beginner
About this Course
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This course focuses on the essential building blocks of HTML, including elements for structuring content, creating lists, and improving accessibility with semantic tags. It introduces the < head> section, metadata, and best practices for enhancing SEO and user experience. Additionally, the course explains how to style and structure navigation menus using CSS and HTML5 elements, promoting clear organization and visual appeal on web pages.
Understanding HTML Document Types and Elements
The <head> section of an HTML document contains metadata and external resource links that help browsers, search engines, and users understand and display the page correctly. Optimizing meta descriptions and title tags with concise, compelling, and keyword-rich content improves SEO, encourages clicks, and ensures accurate representation in search results. Additionally, including elements like favicons and properly setting character encoding enhances the user experience and supports content accessibility across platforms.
Enhancing Web Accessibility and SEO with Semantic HTML and Structural Elements
Semantic HTML5 elements, such as <header>, <main>, <section>, and <footer>, provide meaningful structure to web pages, enhancing readability, accessibility, and SEO. By organizing content hierarchically with headings, paragraphs, and nested elements, developers create clear, maintainable code that benefits users, screen readers, and search engines alike.
Styling Text with HTML
This stage covers the use of inline elements in HTML to enhance the meaning, context, and styling of text within a document. It explains the semantic purposes of elements like <span>, <b>, <strong>, <em>, and <i>, emphasizing their accessibility and proper usage for clearer and more structured content.
Understanding Ordered, Unordered, and Description Lists in HTML
This stage covers various types of lists in HTML, including unordered, ordered, nested, and description lists, and demonstrates how to format them using HTML and CSS. It also explained how to customize bullet styles, change numbering systems, and adjust item alignment for clearer presentation.
6 stepsHandling Special Characters and Comments in HTML
This stage introduces HTML character entities, block elements for special text types, and the importance of comments and whitespace in HTML and CSS. It demonstrates how to use character entities, block elements like <blockquote>, <address>, and <pre>, as well as the role of comments and whitespace in improving the readability and manageability of code.
Exploring DIV, Header and Footer Elements in HTML
This stage introduces the use of HTML5 semantic elements like <header> and <footer>, which enhance page structure and accessibility by providing context and meaning to different sections. These elements help organize content more clearly, making it easier for both users and search engines to understand the layout of a page.
Creating Structured Navigation Menus
This stage covers the creation of multi-tier navigation menus, starting with a vertical menu and progressing through horizontal, two-tier, and three-tier menus. It demonstrates how to use HTML and CSS to structure and style navigation elements, incorporating hover effects to display submenus at each level.
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