What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Specialization - 4 course series

Learners will build example web pages following guided lectures that will lead them to a deeper understanding of how websites work. Skills learned can be used across a number of different platforms in situation which learners come across HTML and styling of web content.

By the end of this course you’ll be able to describe the structure and functionality of the world wide web, create static web pages using HTML and CSS, select an appropriate web hosting service, and publish your webpages for the world to see. Finally, you’ll be able to develop a working model for creating your own personal or business websites in the future and launch yourself on a learning journey in web development.

In this course, you’ll learn how type communicates and how styling and organization of written content affects the message. You’ll look at advanced features of web fonts and see how type designers are taking the fields of digital type to the next level. Then, you’ll learn about color, color theory, and the practice of using color in your digital products and work with color by exploring gradients, other effects, and work to create a website using techniques learned in this course. Finally, we’ll wrap up the course by learning how to create animations in CSS using transitions, 2d and 3d transformations, as well as keyframes to create sophisticated animations on the web.

In this course, we’ll explore the history of layout on the web and techniques that have been used to create those layouts. You’ll practice using Flexbox CSS and gain an understanding of how Flexbox works to create layouts for web pages. We’ll practice using responsive web design and discuss the challenges of managing layouts across multiple screen sizes. You’ll learn specific techniques to build a responsive web page and practice using mobile first development. Lastly, you’ll apply the techniques learned in this course by using Flexbox properties to create a mini portfolio website and deploy it on GitHub.

Beyond Basic CSS: Typography, Color, Effects, & Animation

Creating Basic Web Layouts

Advanced Web Layouts