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Every website you have ever visited - Google, YouTube, your school portal - is built on HTML. In this structured 12-week programme you go from complete beginner to building, testing and publishing your own professional multi-page website. How the programme works • 12 weeks, about 4-5 hours a week - one week per section • Every lesson has a video from an experienced web developer, full reading notes with code examples, and a downloadable lesson pack (printable notes, working examples and a practice exercise with a model answer) • A 10-question quiz at the end of every week (60% to pass) • A capstone website in week 12 and a final exam (40 questions, 60 minutes, 70% to pass, 3 attempts) • Certificate of completion when you finish every lesson and pass the final exam • Week 1 includes a printable 12-week study plan and progress checklist What you will learn • Week 1 - How the web works, VS Code and Live Server, the structure of an HTML document • Week 2 - Headings, paragraphs, text formatting, special characters and lists • Week 3 - Links, file paths and building a multi-page site with navigation • Week 4 - Images, figures, responsive images, audio, video and embedding YouTube and Google Maps • Week 5 - Tables, merged cells and a styled class timetable project • Week 6 - Forms: how they work, input types, fieldsets and buttons • Week 7 - Form validation, accessible forms and a full registration form project • Week 8 - Semantic HTML, div/span, classes and ids, planning layouts with wireframes • Week 9 - Accessibility (WCAG), keyboard access, ARIA, and testing with the W3C validator, Lighthouse and DevTools • Week 10 - The head, meta tags, SEO basics, favicons and WhatsApp/social sharing previews • Week 11 - CSS basics, the box model and flexbox layouts, and publishing your site free on GitHub Pages or Netlify • Week 12 - Capstone: plan, build and publish a real website; revision and the final exam Who this course is for Any student or adult who is curious about how websites are made - no coding experience needed. What you need A computer with a web browser (free tools are shown in week 1). You can start on a phone, but a laptop or desktop is best for the projects.

Web Development with HTML: Build Your First Website

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