Intro to the Web

Let’s look at how to manage content in Wordpress in an accessible, SEO-friendly way.

Today we learn more about your CMS-driven website, including changing themes, post types, logos, and comment moderation, and then we’ll start on our final assignments!

Today we learn about content management systems, how to think about a portfolio, and set up a site through wordpress.com.

Today we continue learning about the high-performance web, looking at techniques including asset loading, minimizing requests, minification, SSL certificates, HTTP/2, and more. Most importantly, we’ll put our first website on the internet!

Whether you’re driven by ethics or the almighty dollar, great web performance is a must. Today we’ll start learning how to deliver high-performance web applications.

Today we learn about the lifecycle of a web-based project. We’ll look at all the possible stages of a project, whether big or small.

Today we’ll play a game, and work on your first assignment

Today we’ll build a responsive web page using flexbox.

This week we’ll learn about mobile-first design techniques & media queries; how HTML flows by default, positioning in CSS, and the float property.

Today we’ll get to practice our CSS (and learn a few more tricks) by building a menu. We’ll get an introduction to browser dev tools, a basic CSS reset, fonts in CSS, and how to style a menu with :pseudo selectors.

Today we’ll look at what CSS is, how it operates, where to put it, how to write CSS rules, and how to validate our CSS.

This week we’ll learn about all the components of a full HTML file, HTML5 semantic elements, accessibility, block/inline elements and more complex elements including ‘img’ and ‘table’.

Today we learn about the course, and take our first foray into Hypertext Markup Language.