HTML& CSS for Beginners: Learn the Fundamentals of Computer Programming

By Jo Foster

With so much information about web development and online coding tutorials out there, it can be difficult to know where to start.

Many guides, websites and books can be confusing and don’t make it easy for those starting out. HTML & CSS For Beginners fills in the gap and provides a great place to start learning something new.

Using our bestselling, straightforward, step-by-step, visual approach, learn to

Understand HTML tags and elements

Understand CSS selectors

Style tables, lists, and forms

Style text, headings and paragraphs

Learn to use web safe fonts and google fonts in your web pages

Insert images, audio and video into web pages

Align your content and build site structure using new HTML5 elements

Learn to harness the power of CSS to style your text and build your site layout

Understand web servers and how the serve pages to web browsers

Familiarise yourself with HTML & CSS syntax with appendix reference guides to help you write your code.

Techniques are illustrated step-by-step using full color diagrams and screen prints throughout together with clear and concise tutorials from an established expert in the field.

If you want to learn to code quickly and easily, this is the guide you need.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elluminet Press
• Release date: Apr 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781913151706

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HTML and CSS for Beginners

Jo Foster

HTML and CSS for Beginners

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About the Author

Jo Foster spent years as a senior developer and is a seasoned lecturer in Computer Science. He currently teaches web programming covering HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP. As well as computer systems, networking and hardware architecture.

He has worked in industry building various websites using different technologies and has a wealth of experience and expertise.

Table of Contents

What is HTML? 8

Structure of an HTML File 8

HTML Element Structure 9

Hypertext 10

Where