In this course we 're going to learn how to build websites from a beginner to a
professional level. You do n't need any previous coding or technical experience
this course is designed to be your first step to becoming a software engineer.
After each section I 'm going to give you a bunch of exercises that you can do on
your own to practice the skills that we learned. Let 's go to our computer and we
're going to create a new folder. So this folder is going to contain all the code
for this course. I 'm going to call this html dash css dash course. So we have to
make sure that this file ends with dot html. This tells a computer that file
contains html code rather than just text. So as you can see, html is pretty
straightforward. Each of these things that we're displaying on the web page is
called an html element. The computer reads our html code from top to bottom and
then follows those instructions and creates a button and a paragraph of text. If we
reverse the order of these lines, for example , if I put the paragraph up here and
I save it and refresh the page then the paragraph will appear on top. This is
something called syntax. Syntax are the rules for how a coding language like html
should be written.
The next element that we 're going to learn is a link to another website for
example if we go to google and we search for something on google , it will give us
a bunch of links and when we click these links it will take us to another site. So
we 'll go back to our website here and in our code we ''re going to type less
than , a , a. greater than. So this a here represents an anchor element. An anchor
is basically a link. So inside this anchor is the text of our link so let 's put
the text as link to youtube. An attribute basically modifies how an element
behaves. In this example we 're using the href attribute and it determines where
this link element will take us when we click it. Right now it 's going to youtube.
com but if we change this it will take. us to a different website with html. Now
let 's go back here and explain what this syntax means. If we save this file and we
reload you 'll notice that all of these spaces just appear as one space on the
website. This is because according to the syntax extra spaces are essentially
ignored so beginners usually have trouble with this because for example if they
want to add space between this button and this link they would start adding spaces
in front of the link thinking that it will move it away from the button.
In this lesson we 're going to learn css or cascading style sheets based on the
name it 's used to style our web page so it's used to change the appearance of our
html elements. We 're actually going to create a project that we can do in this
lesson so we're going to open this project by going to super simple dot dev slash
exercises slash buttons. The purpose of this element is that inside this element we
can write css code which modifies the appearance of other elements for example.
Inside these brackets we're basically going to give instructions to the computer on
how to modify the appearance for example we can set the background dash color colon
red and semicolon so make sure that you write this out exactly as i have it here.
Css is pretty straightforward we 're essentially just giving the computer
instructions so the general technique for changing styles one by one is to just
change the styles. this time we 'll set the border property so notice that our
button has a border while the subscribe button here doesn't have a border. The more
that you write css and work with pixels the more you get a sense for how big these
measurements turn out to be.
professional level. You do n't need any previous coding or technical experience
this course is designed to be your first step to becoming a software engineer.
After each section I 'm going to give you a bunch of exercises that you can do on
your own to practice the skills that we learned. Let 's go to our computer and we
're going to create a new folder. So this folder is going to contain all the code
for this course. I 'm going to call this html dash css dash course. So we have to
make sure that this file ends with dot html. This tells a computer that file
contains html code rather than just text. So as you can see, html is pretty
straightforward. Each of these things that we're displaying on the web page is
called an html element. The computer reads our html code from top to bottom and
then follows those instructions and creates a button and a paragraph of text. If we
reverse the order of these lines, for example , if I put the paragraph up here and
I save it and refresh the page then the paragraph will appear on top. This is
something called syntax. Syntax are the rules for how a coding language like html
should be written.
The next element that we 're going to learn is a link to another website for
example if we go to google and we search for something on google , it will give us
a bunch of links and when we click these links it will take us to another site. So
we 'll go back to our website here and in our code we ''re going to type less
than , a , a. greater than. So this a here represents an anchor element. An anchor
is basically a link. So inside this anchor is the text of our link so let 's put
the text as link to youtube. An attribute basically modifies how an element
behaves. In this example we 're using the href attribute and it determines where
this link element will take us when we click it. Right now it 's going to youtube.
com but if we change this it will take. us to a different website with html. Now
let 's go back here and explain what this syntax means. If we save this file and we
reload you 'll notice that all of these spaces just appear as one space on the
website. This is because according to the syntax extra spaces are essentially
ignored so beginners usually have trouble with this because for example if they
want to add space between this button and this link they would start adding spaces
in front of the link thinking that it will move it away from the button.
In this lesson we 're going to learn css or cascading style sheets based on the
name it 's used to style our web page so it's used to change the appearance of our
html elements. We 're actually going to create a project that we can do in this
lesson so we're going to open this project by going to super simple dot dev slash
exercises slash buttons. The purpose of this element is that inside this element we
can write css code which modifies the appearance of other elements for example.
Inside these brackets we're basically going to give instructions to the computer on
how to modify the appearance for example we can set the background dash color colon
red and semicolon so make sure that you write this out exactly as i have it here.
Css is pretty straightforward we 're essentially just giving the computer
instructions so the general technique for changing styles one by one is to just
change the styles. this time we 'll set the border property so notice that our
button has a border while the subscribe button here doesn't have a border. The more
that you write css and work with pixels the more you get a sense for how big these
measurements turn out to be.
