HTML and CSS

HTML and CSS

• HTML and CSS as separation of structure and presentation
• Introduction to HTML
  • Structure and organization
  • Tags
  • Attributes
  • Attribute values
• Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
  • Basic syntax of CSS
  • Selectors
    • Selecting tags
    • Selecting nodes with a specific ID value
    • Selecting nodes with a specific class value
• Layout
  • Centering a page
  • Creating columns; introduction to floats
• Advanced topics
  • Media queries
  • Responsive web design
  • CSS Preprocessors

Resources

• Dave Raggett’s Intro to HTML
• Michael Cohen, “Separation: The Web Designer’s Dilemma”, A List Apart
• HTML5 Boilerplate
• HTML5 Doctor
• Learing CSS: Cascading Style Sheets articles and tutorials
• Ethan Marcotte, “Responsive Web Design”, A List Apart
• Sass
• Compass
• Susy