Starting Out, Setting Up
Working with Web Browsers
Installing and customising the web browsers most commonly used by web designers and web developers.
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Web Hosting on GitHub
Creating a free GitHub account, choosing a website name and setting up a repository for hosting your web pages.
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Working with VS Code
Installing and customising the free Microsoft Visual Studio Code app for creating web pages and stylesheets.
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About HTML Files
Understanding the basic structure of an HTML file and recognising the elements commonly found in the <head> section.
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Working with HTML
Adding HTML text formatting tags for headings and paragraphs, and bold and italics.
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About CSS Files
Understanding a CSS stylesheet, and recognising the most commonly used CSS properties in web design.
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Working with CSS
Linking a stylesheet to a web page, and updating the style rules to change the visual appearance of a web page.
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Colours and Web Design
Learning about the web colour systems, and applying CSS properties for setting text and background colours.
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Introduction to Images
Understanding popular image formats used on web pages, and discovering sources of free-to-use images.
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Working with Images
Inserting images in a web page, and styling images with drop shadow and rounded corner effects.
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Working with Google Fonts
Linking your web pages to Google Fonts and formatting text elements by adding Google Font names to your stylesheets.
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Media Queries
Adding media queries to a CSS file so that web page elements resize according to the viewport width.
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Fluid Typography
Applying the fluid typographic equation to scale font sizes responsively according to the viewport width.
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Semantic Design
Exploring the main visual elements of a web page and how they are implemented with semantic tags in HTML5.
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The Box Model
Exploring the ‘box model’ concept and understanding the CSS properties of padding, borders and margins.
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Working with Panels
Using the box model principles to create and style small, visually attractive panels of content in a web page.
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Hero Blocks with Text
Designing an above-the-fold hero block with animated text and various background colours.
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Hero Blocks with Images
Designing a hero block with various background image options including tinted overlays.
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Hero Blocks with Videos
Designing a hero block with a background video that plays in a continuous loop and includes a tinted overlay.
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Introduction to Hyperlinks
Understanding the difference between absolute and relative hyperlinks, and adding hyperlinks to sample web pages.
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Internal Hyperlinks
Creating a Wikipedia-style web page navigation system with a smooth-scrolling visual effect.
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Styling Hyperlinks with CSS
Applying CSS style rules such as text colours, borders and transitions to hyperlink states.
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Vincent van Gogh
A summary of the life and work of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh with an embedded and responsive video from YouTube.
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Snazzy Fashion
A website for a fashion retailer with multiple sections and a background video.
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Smooth Smoothies
Offering tasty alternatives to sugary and unhealthy snacks for busy, on-the-go, on-trend professionals.
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Setting Up Google Analytics
Monitoring your website visitors by adding a unique tracking code to your web pages.
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Privacy Messages
Creating a ‘pop-up’ cookie consent message to include in your web pages.
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Serverless Forms
Using forms with GitHub Pages by registering for a third-party online form processing service such as Formspree.
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