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Lesson 1 - HTML and CSS

Introduction

This lesson will be split in 2 parts: Part 1: HTML & Part 2: CSS

Goal of this lesson

We are going to look at:

  • What is HTML and understanding its structure
  • How do we apply styles with CSS classes

By the end of these two parts you will have:

Built and styled a web page which will contain (see below the end result):

  • a heading
  • an image
  • a text/paragraph
  • a link
  • a form
  • a button

Here the final example: a meow permit page

What’s HTML and CSS?

HTML

  • Stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
  • 🦴 HTML is the language used to build websites. It’s the skeleton of all content on the web.

CSS

  • Stands for Cascading Style Sheets
  • 💄💅 CSS is used on top of the HTML to style the page.

Whenever you go to a website (e.g. www.gov.uk) your browser sends a request to a special computer called a “server”. The server sends back HTML and CSS, which your browser turns into a webpage for you to look at.

Next lesson - Part 1: HTML

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