Learn to build simple custom websites from scratch using free tools. Master HTML and CSS fundamentals to take your website live.
This course teaches you to create a custom website from the ground up using free tools, focusing on HTML and CSS. By the end, you'll have a live site and a solid foundation in web development basics!
Build Simple Custom Websites From Scratch with Completely Free Tools
In this course, you'll learn how to build a simple, custom website from scratch. Not a template-based site that will look like everyone else's. You'll build your website from nothing… in raw code, the way you want, then take it live on the Web.
You're going to learn a lot about HTML and CSS, the languages of content and design in web development. You won't be a professional web developer at the end of this course. You will have built a rock solid foundation in HTML and CSS. And, if you decide you want to learn more, you'll be well prepared to tackle more advanced web development courses.
If developing some simple websites for yourself and your friends is all you want, you'll learn all you need from this course. You'll also learn about some resources that will help you further develop your skills on your own.
You won't need to buy any special software. You'll use free tools that I'll guide you through setting up. The only cost will be an affordable web hosting service to take your site live on the Web. I'll help you with that too, when the time comes.
And when you're done, you'll have a custom website that you built yourself, live on the Web, sharing what you have to say with the world.
Let's get started.
Topics Include:
Setting up a plain text editor for web development.
The structure of HTML.
Structuring written content.
Adding images.
Embedding videos, maps, and other third-party content.
Linking to internal and external pages.
Creating lists and tables.
Styling content with CSS.
Designing pages for readability and visual appeal.
Customizing fonts and text.
Registering your website domain name.
Setting up a web hosting service.
Uploading your site and taking it live on the Web.
Develop simple custom websites from scratch, using completely free tools.
Upload and take custom sites live on the Web.
Write and understand basic HTML and CSS, the languages of content and design on the Web.
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Thomas Bell is a co-founder and partner of Chronicle, a brand narrative consulting firm. He co-founded and served as founding program director of the AJC Decatur Book Festival, one of the United States' largest literary events. In this position, he met regularly with all Big Five publishers and many university and indie publishing houses, as well as with book critics,...
This course was wonderful in beginning from scratch with html and css and learning the basics for creating a simple site!
Halfway through, and I can truly say that here's a lot of depth in the material, but he makes it understandable. I work along with him, testing things out on my own sheets, even when he doesn't tell me to do so. He also gives good print documentation which helps me go back and find things that I've forgotten. I am excited to see whether I can truly create a website with which I will be happy. If not, I believe that I will at least have enough understanding to change up other open source sheets of HTML and CSS for use in my own website. :)
Yes!
excellent and interesting presentation of material
Simple and efficient
Excellent course. Highly recommended for any beginner web developer.
Great course, great instructor. It's a shame that there are less than 1000 students in this course.
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Shaul L. O. C. M.
Great course! Very informative for beginning developers. Really appreciate this! Thank you!