WEB DESIGN BASICS

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Content Management Systems

Creating a website with no knowledge of coding
The main players - Blogger and Wordpress
Weebly

HTML Basics

What is Hypertext Markup Language?
Create your first HTML file - the HTML skeleton
Common HTML tags
Adding images and hyperlinks
Inserting tables and lists

CSS Basics

What is a Cascading Style Sheet?
Creating a basic style for a web page

Design Theory

Designing for functionality - what a website can do
Designing for appearance - how a website looks/operates
What are the design elements?
Design tools: site map, layout diagram, storyboard

HTML Advanced

What is HTML5?
Inserting and working with audio and video files
Header / Navigation / Content / Sidebar / Footer
Divisions

CSS Advanced

Styling by class and id

Tools and Applications

Notepad ++  One of the best tools for learning web design
Adobe Dreamweaver