Web Development is the practice of developing websites and web apps that live on the internet. Whether you’re interested in front-end, back-end, or going full-stack, the content in our Web Development domain will help you get there.
Discover web development and learn to build your own interactive websites using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Learn the basics of web development
On this course from the Global Education Foundation, you’ll first build a website using HTML, style it with CSS, and then make it interactive using JavaScript.
Along the way you’ll learn about the box model, which describes how websites are laid out by browsers, and about the Document Object Model, which your JavaScript code will interact with to dynamically change your web pages.
In the final week, you’ll design and create a quiz web page and demonstrate your new skills by making your own website.
What topics will you cover?
HTML tags and attributes
Styling web pages using CSS
CSS classes and ids for styling web page elements
Layouts in CSS, including the box model and responsive design
Using JavaScript to make interactive web pages
The Document Object Model
Validation
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
Produce a HTML web page using suitable tags and attributes
Explain the advantages of CSS compared to inline styling
Apply classes and ids to style a website
Model web pages using the box model
Demonstrate how to use the Document Object Model (DOM) to access an element of a web page
Produce an interactive website using JavaScript
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for teachers delivering lessons at a GCSE level or equivalent, and for beginner programmers looking to start using HTML and JavaScript.
To take this course, you need to be familiar with basic programming structures such as loops and if statements, but you don’t need any experience of HTML, CSS or JavaScript.
For the week on JavaScript, you need to be comfortable with using functions with parameters and return values.
