Learn the more advanced features of HTML.

Description:
This course continues where our introductory course leaves off. Our introductory course covered all the basic tags and covered topics such as creatings lists, creating links and placing images on your web pages. In this 5 week advanced HTML course, you will study changing the color of text, changing the color of a web page's background and using an image for the background.

In this course you will also create basic and advanced tables. Tables are great for summarizing large amounts of information and for structuring data. This course will teach you how to add a table to your web page. Frames are also becoming increasingly popular and a whole week is devoted to creating multiple frames on a web page. Finally, we conclude this course with an extensive look at forms. One of the most powerful parts of a web page is the form. In general a person fills in the form and then submits it to you. After this lesson, you will be able to create your own custom forms.

For specific topics studied in this 5 week advanced course, click on the link at the bottom of this page that reads "Preview of lesson contents and lesson plans".

The structure of each lesson is the same as that of our 6 week introductory course and is written by the same author, John Gilson. John's many examples are clear and easy to follow. There are also many questions for you to answer and web pages for you to make up. All questions and problems come complete with answers and solutions so that you get immediate feedback on how you are progressing. By the time you finish this five week course, you will have a very firm understanding of HTML and in designing and coding your own web pages. This is the course to take if you desire to add to your knowledge of HTML.

Outcomes:
Upon completion of our advanced HTML course, you will:

*Be able to control the appearance of a web page with tags that affect color and by including background images.
*Be able to design your own web page complete with tables, frames and forms.

Assessment:
This is a self-directed lite course. If you wish to be assessed, there is an assignment that can be completed at the conclusion of the course.

Week 1 :
In this first week you will be introduced to color. You will understand how the color codes work, be able to change the text color, the background color and also be able to add an image for the web page background. In this week you will also learn how to add a colorful side bar on your web page.

Week 2 :
This week you will create basic tables. Besides being useful for summarizing large of amounts of data, tables also are great for structuring information so that your visitors can find what they need quickly and easily. In this week, you will study the parts of a table - the border, cell spacing, cell padding - as well as adding images and links to table cells and changing the background color of individual table cells.

Week 3 :
In this week you will study more advanced features of tables. You will create tables with cells that span across two or more columns and across two or more rows. You will also learn to use a table to divide your web page into two or more vertical sections - like you see in magazines and newspapers.

Week 4 :
The main objective of this lesson is to create web pages with frames. You can divide a page into frames with each frame displaying its own web page. You can have links displayed in one frame and when someone clicks on a link, the result will be displayed in another frame. With this lesson on frames, you will gain a thorough understanding of how frames are put together and will be able to create a frames page with ease.

Week 5 :
In this concluding week you will study forms. A form allows you to gather information from a visitor or client for immediate or for later use. The person fills in the form and then submits the information to you. A form is made up of many different elements such as text boxes, password boxes, pop-up menu boxes, radio buttons, check boxes, submit and reset buttons and so on. With this week's lesson, you will learn how each of these form elements work and be able to set up any form element.

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