One Pager Cheat Sheet
- We will discover how to create websites using the
programming languages, HTML and CSS, and learn about the technologies behind today's web pages. - The
HTMLdocument islinkedto external style sheet (CSS) and script (JavaScript) files to enhance the style, appearance, and interactivity of a web page. - HTML
elementsand their appearance on web pages is managed byHyperText Markup Language(HTML) andCascading Style Sheets(CSS). HTML consists of variouselementsenclosed withintagsand sometimes further defined byattributesto provide additional information.- The basic HTML document is created using the
<!DOCTYPE html>,<html>,<head>and<body>tags which define the document type, enclose all elements, set the metadata and display the visible content respectively. - Boldly structuring webpages with
Headings,Paragraphs,Hyperlinks, andImagestags, HTML allows us to display content in a meaningful way. - The correct sequence of HTML tags to start a web page is
<html>,<head>,<title>, and<body>. - CSS helps us to add color and life to a basic webpage by creating style sheets and applying
rulesto HTML elements to control their styling. - CSS is used to change the appearance of HTML elements by defining
selectorsanddeclarationswithinrules. - By adding a
CSS stylesheetto an HTML document,multple propertiesof different elements can be easily changed to modify the appearance of the webpage. - CSS allows for the styling of font (e.g. font-style, font-weight and font-size), background color and padding of HTML elements, such as through specifying
font-style,font-weight,font-size,background-colorandpaddingwith values inpx. - This lesson introduces the basics of HTML and CSS, but there are many other
HTML tagsandCSS propertiesavailable that can be experimented with to create beautiful websites!