Do-It-Yourself Website Development

Do-It-Yourself Website Development, available at $64.99, has an average rating of 4.55, with 72 lectures, 9 quizzes, based on 36 reviews, and has 881 subscribers.

You will learn about Develop simple custom websites from scratch, using completely free tools. Upload and take custom sites live on the Web. Write and understand basic HTML and CSS, the languages of content and design on the Web. Make custom tweaks to template-based sites that allow users to write and modify raw HTML and CSS. (e.g. Squarespace,, WordPress.) This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is intended for students with little or no prior experience with Web development using HTML and CSS. This course is probably not for you if you already understand basic HTML and CSS, and are looking to further advance your skills. or For students who want to develop their own custom websites from scratch, rather than fit their design ideas into template-based platforms such as WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, and Weebly. or For students who want a solid introduction to basic HTML and CSS before tackling more advanced Web development courses. or For students who have existing sites on template-based platforms, and who want to customize their sites by writing or modifying raw HTML and CSS. or For students who want to develop websites but can't justify the cost of commercial Web development software such as Dreamweaver. or For students with a DIY aesthetic, who enjoy building things from scratch, even when they don't have to, and modifying what others have already built. It is particularly useful for This course is intended for students with little or no prior experience with Web development using HTML and CSS. This course is probably not for you if you already understand basic HTML and CSS, and are looking to further advance your skills. or For students who want to develop their own custom websites from scratch, rather than fit their design ideas into template-based platforms such as WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, and Weebly. or For students who want a solid introduction to basic HTML and CSS before tackling more advanced Web development courses. or For students who have existing sites on template-based platforms, and who want to customize their sites by writing or modifying raw HTML and CSS. or For students who want to develop websites but can't justify the cost of commercial Web development software such as Dreamweaver. or For students with a DIY aesthetic, who enjoy building things from scratch, even when they don't have to, and modifying what others have already built.

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Summary

Title: Do-It-Yourself Website Development

Price: $64.99

Average Rating: 4.55

Number of Lectures: 72

Number of Quizzes: 9

Number of Published Lectures: 72

Number of Published Quizzes: 9

Number of Curriculum Items: 81

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 81

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Develop simple custom websites from scratch, using completely free tools.
Upload and take custom sites live on the Web.
Write and understand basic HTML and CSS, the languages of content and design on the Web.
Make custom tweaks to template-based sites that allow users to write and modify raw HTML and CSS. (e.g. Squarespace,, WordPress.)

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for students with little or no prior experience with Web development using HTML and CSS. This course is probably not for you if you already understand basic HTML and CSS, and are looking to further advance your skills.
For students who want to develop their own custom websites from scratch, rather than fit their design ideas into template-based platforms such as WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, and Weebly.
For students who want a solid introduction to basic HTML and CSS before tackling more advanced Web development courses.
For students who have existing sites on template-based platforms, and who want to customize their sites by writing or modifying raw HTML and CSS.
For students who want to develop websites but can't justify the cost of commercial Web development software such as Dreamweaver.
For students with a DIY aesthetic, who enjoy building things from scratch, even when they don't have to, and modifying what others have already built.

Target Audiences

This course is intended for students with little or no prior experience with Web development using HTML and CSS. This course is probably not for you if you already understand basic HTML and CSS, and are looking to further advance your skills.
For students who want to develop their own custom websites from scratch, rather than fit their design ideas into template-based platforms such as WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, and Weebly.
For students who want a solid introduction to basic HTML and CSS before tackling more advanced Web development courses.
For students who have existing sites on template-based platforms, and who want to customize their sites by writing or modifying raw HTML and CSS.
For students who want to develop websites but can't justify the cost of commercial Web development software such as Dreamweaver.
For students with a DIY aesthetic, who enjoy building things from scratch, even when they don't have to, and modifying what others have already built.

In this course, you’ll learn how to build a simple, custom website from scratch. Not a template-based site that will look like everyone else’s. You’ll build your website from nothing… in raw code, the way you want, then take it live on the Web.

You’re going to learn a lot about HTML and CSS, the languages of content and design in web development. You won’t be a professional web developer at the end of this course. You will have built a rock solid foundation in HTML and CSS. And, if you decide you want to learn more, you’ll be well prepared to tackle more advanced web development courses.

If developing some simple websites for yourself and your friends is all you want, you’ll learn all you need from this course. You’ll also learn about some resources that will help you further develop your skills on your own.

You won’t need to buy any special software. You’ll use free tools that I’ll guide you through setting up. The only cost will be an affordable web hosting service to take your site live on the Web. I’ll help you with that too, when the time comes.

And when you’re done, you’ll have a custom website that you built yourself, live on the Web, sharing what you have to say with the world.

Let’s get started.

Topics Include:

Setting up a plain text editor for web development.
The structure of HTML.
Structuring written content.
Adding images.
Embedding videos, maps, and other third-party content.
Linking to internal and external pages.
Creating lists and tables.
Styling content with CSS.
Designing pages for readability and visual appeal.
Customizing fonts and text.
Registering your website domain name.
Setting up a web hosting service.
Uploading your site and taking it live on the Web.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: You Really Can Build a Website Yourself

Lecture 3: The Languages of Web Development: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Lecture 4: Rush Job: A Complete Website in 35 Minutes — Part One, HTML for Content

Lecture 5: Rush Job: A Complete Website in 35 Minutes — Part Two, CSS and Taking It Live

Lecture 6: Choosing Your Text Editor

Lecture 7: Setting Up Your Text Editor: Mac OS X

Lecture 8: Setting Up Your Text Editor: Windows

Lecture 9: Pointing Your Browser at Local Files

Chapter 2: Content (HTML)

Lecture 1: Failing Gracefully

Lecture 2: Doctype, HTML, and Body

Lecture 3: Paragraphs, Divisions, and Spans

Lecture 4: Head

Lecture 5: Attributes

Lecture 6: Now You Try It! (Create your own template for a minimally compliant webpage.)

Lecture 7: Adding Spaces

Lecture 8: Images: Finding and Saving

Lecture 9: Images: Adding to HTML

Lecture 10: Now You Try It! (Find images and add them to a simple webpage.)

Lecture 11: Linking: Basic External Links

Lecture 12: Linking: Basic Internal Links

Lecture 13: Linking: Advanced Links

Lecture 14: Now You Try It! (Write a block of links to both external and internal pages.)

Lecture 15: iframes

Lecture 16: Now You Try It! (Embed a Google Map in an iframe.)

Lecture 17: Quick and Dirty Styling

Lecture 18: <!– Comments –>

Lecture 19: Common HTML Errors

Lecture 20: You Could Stop Right Here

Lecture 21: Extra Credit: Lists

Lecture 22: Extra Credit: Tables

Chapter 3: Style (CSS)

Lecture 1: CSS for Style

Lecture 2: CSS Three Ways: Inline Style

Lecture 3: CSS Three Ways: Internal Style Sheets

Lecture 4: CSS Three Ways: External Style Sheets

Lecture 5: Cascading In Action

Lecture 6: Basic Selectors

Lecture 7: Now You Try It! (Style using an external stylesheet and basic selectors.)

Lecture 8: Selecting with Element Classes

Lecture 9: Selecting with Element IDs

Lecture 10: Now You Try It! (Style using element classes and IDs.)

Lecture 11: Font Properties: Font-Family

Lecture 12: Font Properties: Font-Size

Lecture 13: Font Properties: Font-Weight

Lecture 14: Font Properties: Font-Style

Lecture 15: Font Properties: Text-Decoration and Color

Lecture 16: Alignment

Lecture 17: Now You Try It! (Styling font properties.)

Lecture 18: Color

Lecture 19: Height and Width

Lecture 20: Margins

Lecture 21: Borders

Lecture 22: Padding

Lecture 23: Clean-Up: Homepage

Lecture 24: Clean-Up: About Page

Lecture 25: Clean-Up: Just In Page

Lecture 26: Clean-Up: Tweaking and Polishing

Lecture 27: Now You Try It! (Styling blocks for visual structure.)

Lecture 28: Common CSS Errors

Lecture 29: You Could Stop Right Here

Lecture 30: Extra Credit: Float

Chapter 4: Taking It Live

Lecture 1: Time to Go Live

Lecture 2: Domain Name Registration, DNS, and Web Hosting All-in-One!

Lecture 3: Domain Name Registration

Lecture 4: Domain Name Service (DNS)

Lecture 5: Web Hosting Service

Lecture 6: Uploading: Web-Based (Web Host Specific)

Lecture 7: Uploading: FTP (FileZilla)

Lecture 8: Alternatives to Domains and Web Hosting

Chapter 5: Closing Thoughts

Lecture 1: Keeping It Simple

Lecture 2: Developing Your Skills

Lecture 3: Good Luck!

Instructors

Thomas Bell
Writer, Publishing Consultant, and Web Developer

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