Course Overview

This online course, provided as a service of unrelated.net, is designed to teach the basics of web page development.

This course provides an introduction to fundamental concepts and techniques required to design and develop effective websites. Topics include: basic principles of site architecture and navigation; and markup language code for text, images, links, tables, frames, and other commonly used basic tags. To succeed in this course, you should first be familiar with the internet and commonly-used computer applications software.

Recommended Book

You don't have to have a book, but they do come in handy. Almost any HTML book will do. A good choice is the book by Elizabeth Castro, HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual Quickstart Guide, 4e. (HTML-VQG) Berkeley, CA: PeachPit Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-2-1-35493-4

Recommended Website

There are hundreds of other places to get great HTML information. Try this one, for example: HTML Goodies.

Course Structure

• lecture pages
• guided tutorials
• links to other sites

What You Need

You can learn HTML with a pencil and paper, but to use it, you will need a computer. To put your HTML on a website, you'll need to be able to access the internet and you'll need a place where you can put your web pages. This is discussed in Lesson 1, About Websites. You can use any type of computer to work with HTML and the web.