Starting Out, Setting Up
Working with Web Browsers
Installing and customising the web browsers most commonly used by web designers and web developers.
View Tutorial
Web Hosting on GitHub
Creating a free GitHub account, choosing a website name and setting up a repository for hosting your web pages.
View Tutorial
Working with VS Code
Installing and customising the free Microsoft Visual Studio Code app for creating web pages and stylesheets.
View TutorialWeb Design Fundamentals
About HTML Files
Understanding the basic structure of an HTML file and recognising the elements commonly found in the <head> section.
View Tutorial
Working with HTML
Adding HTML text formatting tags for headings and paragraphs, and bold and italics.
View Tutorial
About CSS Files
Understanding a CSS stylesheet, and recognising the most commonly used CSS properties in web design.
View Tutorial
Working with CSS
Linking a stylesheet to a web page, and updating the style rules to change the visual appearance of a web page.
View TutorialColours and Web Design
Colours and Web Design
Learning about the web colour systems, and applying CSS properties for setting text and background colours.
View TutorialImages and Web Design
Introduction to Images
Understanding popular image formats used on web pages, and discovering sources of free-to-use images.
View Tutorial
Working with Images
Inserting images in a web page, and styling images with drop shadow and rounded corner effects.
View TutorialText and Typography
Working with Google Fonts
Linking your web pages to Google Fonts and formatting text elements by adding Google Font names to your stylesheets.
View TutorialResponsive Web Design
Media Queries
Adding media queries to a CSS file so that web page elements resize according to the viewport width.
View Tutorial
Fluid Typography
Applying the fluid typographic equation to scale font sizes responsively according to the viewport width.
View TutorialThe Box Model
The Box Model
Exploring the ‘box model’ concept and understanding the CSS properties of padding, borders and margins.
View Tutorial
Working with Panels
Using the box model principles to create and style small, visually attractive panels of content in a web page.
View Tutorial
Working with Sections
Reusing HTML5-compliant section elements to quickly create a range of visually different web pages.
View TutorialMulti-column Layout
Introduction to CSS Flexbox
Using the CSS flexbox method to layout the content of web pages in responsive grids of rows and columns.
View Tutorial
Hero Blocks
Hero Block: Text
Designing an above-the-fold hero block with animated text and various background colours.
View Tutorial
Hero Block: Images
Designing a hero block with various background image options including tinted overlays.
View Tutorial
Hero Block: Videos
Designing a hero block with a background video that plays in a continuous loop and includes a tinted overlay.
View TutorialHyperlinks, Buttons and Icons
Introduction to Hyperlinks
Understanding the difference between absolute and relative hyperlinks, and adding hyperlinks to sample web pages.
View Tutorial
Internal Hyperlinks
Creating a Wikipedia-style web page navigation system with a smooth-scrolling visual effect.
View Tutorial
Styling Hyperlinks with CSS
Applying CSS style rules such as text colours, borders and transitions to hyperlink states.
View Tutorial