Starting Out, Setting Up
About Web Browsers
Installing and customising the web browsers preferred by front-end developers and web designers.
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Web Hosting on GitHub
Creating a free GitHub account, choosing a website name and setting up a repository for hosting your web pages.
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Installing Visual Studio Code
Installing and customising the free Microsoft Visual Studio Code app for creating web pages and stylesheets.
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Working with Folders
Creating a logical folder structure for the various files typically used in website projects.
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Working with HTML
Understanding the basic structure of an HTML file and adding HTML text formatting tags.
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Debugging HTML
Using the HTMLHint extension in VS Code to identify and correct HTML errors in a web page.
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SEO and Web Pages
Using HTML tags to optimise the ranking of your web pages on Google and other search engines.
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Container Elements
Exploring wireframes, prototypes and the container elements used in modern web design (HTML5 and CSS3).
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Working with CSS
Linking a stylesheet to a web page, and updating the style rules to change the visual appearance of a web page.
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Negative Spacing
Using negative space between content elements to make your web pages easier and more inviting to read.
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Media Queries
Adding media queries to a CSS file so that web page elements resize according to the viewport width.
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Working with Colour Models
Learning about the three main colour systems used in web design: colour names, RGB values and hex codes.
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Updating CSS Colours
Using CSS files to apply text and background colour styles to your exercise web pages and your home page.
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Classes and Custom Properties
Create and use classes and custom properties in HTML and CSS.
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Images and Web Design
Introduction to Images
Understanding popular image formats used on web pages, and discovering sources of free-to-use images.
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Working with Images
Inserting images in a web page, and styling images with drop shadow and rounded corner effects.
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Working with Favicons
Creating a favicon using an online service, and inserting a favicon into the head of a web page.
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The Box Model
Exploring the ‘box model’ concept and understanding the CSS properties of padding, borders and margins.
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Working with Cards
Using the box model principles to create and style small, visually attractive panels of content in a web page.
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Working with Text
Understanding and applying the most commonly used CSS text properties in web design.
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Working with the Font Stack
Using the font-stack and applying a fluid typographic scale to adjust font sizes responsively.
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Working with Google Fonts
Linking your web pages to Google Fonts and formatting text elements by adding Google Font names to your stylesheets.
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Hero Blocks with Text
Creating an above-the-fold hero block with animated text and a background colour gradient.
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Hero Blocks with Images
Designing a hero block with various background image options including tinted overlays.
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Hero Blocks with Videos
Designing a hero block with a background video that plays in a continuous loop and includes a tinted overlay.
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Introduction to Hyperlinks
Understanding the difference between absolute and relative hyperlinks, and adding hyperlinks to sample web pages.
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Internal Hyperlinks
Creating a Wikipedia-style web page navigation system with a smooth-scrolling visual effect.
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Styling Hyperlinks with CSS
Applying CSS style rules such as text colours, borders and transitions to hyperlink states.
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Smooth Smoothies
A web page for a smoothie outlet with on-load animations and images with transparent backgrounds.
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Hero Gallery
A gallery of hero block elements with split-screen layouts and duotone images.
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User Tracking
Setting Up Google Analytics
Monitoring your website visitors by adding a unique tracking code to your web pages.
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Privacy Messages
Creating a ‘pop-up’ cookie consent message to include in your web pages.
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Working with GSC
Setting up the Google Search Console to monitor and maintain your website’s presence in Google search results.
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Serverless Forms
Using forms with GitHub Pages by registering for a third-party online form processing service such as Formspree.
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