Introduction to HTML

By Mikal Priess

Running Time: 4 Hours and 22 Minutes

  Overview

This video series teaches you the basics of HTML, the language of the Web. You'll learn how to write HTML documents with free tools and get the background you need to understand the code created by the more expensive WYSIWYG tools. By the end of this course you'll be able to examine and understand the structure of any document on The World Wide Web and to create your own Web Pages.

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Detailed Video Descriptions

  1 - Introduction (Running Time: 19:40)

In this video, Mikal walks us through a quick history of HTML, tells us what it was like before The Web, why HTML was developed and how it has grown and changed. He also discusses how you can find free HTML tools and an endless supply of free HTML examples to study.

  2 - HTML Essentials Part 1 - Document Tags (Running Time: 26:46)

After a brief introduction on how browsers treat HTML tags, we get our feet wet creating our first HTML document. You'll learn the basic structure of Tags and HTML Documents as well as how to add Attributes and Values to those Tags. See how a Browser attempts to restructure your document and what you can do about it. You'll also learn how to add a Title to a document and how to structure your document using Headings, Paragraphs, and Horizontal Rules. This video also introduces the concepts of browser differences and XML.

  3 - HTML Essentials Part 2 - Text Formatting Tags (Running Time: 29:33)

In this video, Mikal demonstrates how to format text by making it Italic, Big, Bold, Blink, and more. You'll learn how to change the style, color, and size of Fonts and how to properly nest Tags. See how to use Subscripts, Superscripts, and Special Characters such as copyright and trademark. You will also learn how to keep the Browser from rearranging your text using the Preformat Tag.

  4 - HTML Essentials Part 3 - Images (Running Time: 31:16)

Discover how URL's work. Learn how to add JPEG, GIF, and PNG Images from your local computer or the Internet using absolute and relative URL's. Also learn how to change the size of an image and make text flow around it.

  5 - HTML Essentials Part 4 - Links (Running Time: 11:54)

In this video Mikal discusses HTML's original purpose--using Links to create Hypertext. You'll learn how to use links to move from one web page to another as well as to move around within a single document. By the end of this video you'll understand how Links make the World Wide Web possible.

  6 - HTML Essentials Part 5 - Lists (Running Time: 09:27)

Explore the several varieties of Lists that HTML makes available. Nested Lists will allow you to make lists of lists of lists if you want to.

  7 - HTML Essentials Part 6 - Tables (Running Time: 24:16)

At first, Tables seem to be of only limited use. In this video, you'll learn how to use Tables and discover why they are an important key to how many professionally designed web pages are structured.

  8 - HTML Essentials Part 7 - Forms (Running Time: 16:49)

Talking back to the Server. We'll examine how Forms allow the Web to be interactive. Learn how to use Text Boxes, Buttons, Checkboxes, and more to GET or POST data. See where CGI fits into the picture.

  9 - HTML Essentials Part 8 - Imagemaps (Running Time: 10:55)

Learn to build an Imagemap that contains multiple links within a single image. Get creative with this fun and useful technique.

  10 - HTML Essentials Part 9 - Frames (Running Time: 19:30)

A controversial but powerful technique. Learn how to show several different HTML pages simultaneously inside one Browser Window. We'll also discuss the drawbacks of using Framesets.

  11 - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) (Running Time: 29:35)

Mikal explains the basic ideas behind this modern design technique. You'll see how to write one file that controls the look and feel of any number of HTML pages.

  12 - Applets and Scripting Languages (Running Time: 30:44)

Although HTML is not a programming language, it can use real programs. Learn how in this video. Explore how Java Applets are used. See how Scripting Languages are used to program the Browser itself. Get an introduction to the very powerful technologies that make DHTML possible.

  13 - Final Thoughts (Running Time: 01:48)

Mikal concludes the Introduction to HTML series and bids a fond farewell until the next course.

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