HTML, CSS & WordPress Introduction Bootcamp

Learn the basics of creating a web page from scratch with HTML and adding simple visual styling to produce results that will appeal to your audience with CSS. Plus gain all the skills you need to get going with WordPress the powerful yet free web creation tool.

This 10-days course will cover what you need to get started with producing HTML and styling your content with CSS as well as focussing on learning how to also use WordPress. You will learn how web pages are structured under the hood and how you can put together your own files for the web. We will also show you how to use CSS to control every aspect of a site’s visuals: its fonts, colours, leading, margins, and more. WordPress is a popular tool for creating websites and blogs so we will show you the end-to-end process for creating a fully functional, professional website and blog.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the syntax and structure of HTML pages
• Insert tags, attributes, and values into a page
• Define titles, headings, and page regions
• Add links, alternate text content, and background images
• Position and resize images and other page elements
• Work with colours
• Use correct styles instead of deprecated HTML tags
• Design without relying on tables
• Include padding, margins, borders, and backgrounds
• Write selectors to target only specific parts of a page
• Produce horizontal and vertical navigation bars
• Style hyperlinks
• Differentiate between external, embedded, and inline styles
• Install and configure WordPress
• Understand the difference between posts and pages
• Publish a blog post
• Manage links, tags, and media
• Approve or delete blog comments
• Customise your site with advanced themes
• Inspect and manipulate the WordPress Loop
• Apply tags
• Create custom navigation menus
• Assign user roles and permissions
• Activate plug-ins that enable enhanced features such as eCommerce