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About the Course

Thanks to a growing number of software programs, it seems as if anyone can make a webpage. But what if you actually want to understand how the page was created? There are great textbooks and online resources for learning web design, but most of those resources require some background knowledge. This course is designed to help the novice who wants to gain confidence and knowledge. We will explore the theory (what actually happens when you click on a link on a webpage?), the practical (what do I need to know to make my own page?), and the overlooked (I have the code, but how do I put it on the web to share with others?). Throughout the course there will be a strong emphasis on adhering to syntactic standards for validation and semantic standards to promote wide accessibility for users with disabilities. This course will appeal to a wide variety of people, but specifically those who would like a step-by-step description of the basics. There are no prerequisites for this course and it is assumed that students have no prior programming skills or IT experience. The course will culminate in a small final project that will require the completion of a very simple page with links and images. The focus of this course is on the basics, not appearance. You can see a sample final HTML page at https://example-site-1--wd4ehtml.repl.co/ . This is the first course in the Web Design For Everybody specialization. Subsequent courses focus on the marketable skills of styling the page with CSS3, adding interactivity with JavaScript and enhancing the styling with responsive design....

Top reviews

SS

Feb 12, 2021

Its a very good course. I got to know so much basic things that I never mind while developing till now. I will make use of basic but yet meaningful stuff taught in this course.

Thank you for this .

AB

Sep 26, 2017

I really enjoyed everything about this course. I thought the exercises/quizzes were fair and the instructor showed me many things that will serve me well going forward. Great course, great instructor!

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By Lezlie B

Feb 7, 2016

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By Martina W

Feb 7, 2016

If there had been a working autograder for the last final project this course would have been worth it somehow.

What does that mean?

- The lectures provided valuable information.

- The quizzes generally made sense (in relation to the lectures).

- Learning how to code wasn't really possible.

Why is that?

- There is only one programming assignment.

- The autograder doesn't give any feedback at all why resp. where things go wrong. That's everything but good style (for software as well as for learning).

- Code snippets can't be tested individually. That's very bad behavior in programming.

- At the end working code that meets the teached rules is marked as wrong. You are lost without any clue.

So probably you can learn something. Unfortunately you can't possibly finish the course with a feeling of success.

By Jean-Christophe B

Oct 1, 2015

The lectures get you through the basics in a clear, understandable way.

But the auto-grader was really a bad idea, that got the lecturer into a lot of trouble for very little gain if any.

It seems to me that peer-reviewed assessments, with proper instructions, are better suited. Apart from being more reliable and less frustrating, I think the learner can really get more out of it.

By Ubaid R

Feb 19, 2023

Professor was good and insightful but the course was extremely poorly curated and obnoxiously boring.

I had to grit my teeth hard to go through this course. The information provided in this course is unnecessarily extended by a huge margin and all of the information can be skimmed down massively.

By Bair

Aug 6, 2020

The course is good for beginners, thats true, but there is no operative support with technical issues. I wasted 3 days waiting for "Final Quiz" from 3 week of HTML course will be available to complete because images of the quiz questions were not visible at all.

By Hank B

Jun 14, 2016

More interactive assignments using the parser would have been great. As it stands, the quizzes had mostly relevant content, but the lessons were anything but engaging. Having Colleen talk at the camera for 5-12 minutes per video got tedious really quick.

By Deniz S

Sep 27, 2015

It may be a 5 weeks course with a more slow learning, because we see some tags in a second and it passes. And the autograder works really bad. I do not know where I fail but I failed all the questions. A peer grader would be nice for the final project.

By Ahmad B S

Dec 8, 2015

Thank you for you time and for everything you did.

As an introduction, I did not find that there's need to talk about the hosting and the other things related to this topic. It would be better if the instructor went deeper into the HTML5.

By Saša K

Jan 5, 2016

The teacher is excellent.

This is excellent but poor introduction to HTML.

The course, which is part of specialization should be much more detailed. With much more axamples. I think it is not worth 49$.

By Edward F

Oct 5, 2015

This course was clearly not ready. The autograder for the final project was.. a complete fail. It was not a fun experience trying to change around my code to figure out what the autograder wanted.

By Tarek H

Feb 13, 2017

The lectures and assignments questions are more about the history of the internet and HTML. although I've finished the course but it wasn't as good as i thought.

By Emily L

Apr 16, 2020

Extremely basic, yet some of the concepts and their applications weren't well explained in the videos. I found the accompanying text to be dense and unclear.

By Maria-Elena F

Jan 18, 2019

Not very clear in some parts and the videos stopping for that style of questioning is annoying. The optional reading was much more useful than the required.

By Mahnoor m

Dec 9, 2020

hi! its good . done till week # 2, but still there is no coding lesson ! Are there coding lessons? pls tell me

By Daniyar A

Aug 14, 2020

Didnt like a lot of theory and less coding, when it comes to coding, you have to dig yourself for data, so so

By Itzhak S

Feb 22, 2017

Unlike the HTML course which precedes it, this course was lacking information and structure.

By Monika P

Feb 5, 2022

too much theory instead of practice. Get bored pretty quickly. Might try another course

By Артем Т

Nov 27, 2020

Too little coding and too many talking.

It's better to learn HTML 5 with youtube videos.

By MATLAPUDI J

Jul 25, 2020

its a bit boring and too much not useful stuff is there in videos about history etec

By RAHUL R

Jun 9, 2020

The Courses could be more practical oriented rather than theory and theory.

By Ayush k

Jul 15, 2020

this course was not helpful on focusing on things that actually matter.

By Amol S

Jun 6, 2020

It was very informative for website developers in beginners.

By Artem B

Sep 8, 2020

A lot of useless information and nothing really special

By Omair B A R

Jun 25, 2020

I do not want to continue this course anymore. Sorry.