Intro to Webs



HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and PHP: Everything you need 
to get started with web design and development


by Ben Centra

Before we get started...


  1. "I already know HTML programming..."

  2. "JavaScript? But I saw that video..."

  3. "PHP is 'a fractal of bad design...'"

  4. "Web dev is the worst..."

Why Web Dev?


  • Big Audience on a Common Platform

  • Plenty of Jobs, Decent Pay

  • Large Developer Community

HTML


  • HyperText Markup Language

  • NOT a programming language; just markup

  • Spec maintained by W3C

  • Current Version: HTML5*


*"HTML5" as a Technology = HTML5, CSS3, new JavaScript APIs

<!DOCTYPE>


  • Not HTML; tells browser the version of HTML being used

  • Must be declared before the first <html> tag

  • HTML5:
     <!DOCTYPE HTML>
  • XHTML 1.0:
     <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>

Page Setup

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Page Title</title>
    <!-- Stylesheets and scripts go here -->
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Page Heading</h1>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet and the rest</p>
    <!-- More body content goes here -->
</body>
</html>

Tag Anatomy


<div id=“content” class=“dark-box”>
    <div class=“image-box”>
        <img src=“image.jpg” width=“320” height=“240”/>
    </div>
</div>

  • id - Unique identifier, for links/styles

  • class - Reusable identifier, for styles

  • id, class, src, etc. are attributes
  • All tags must close, some are self-closing

Example







View an example HTML page here.

CSS


  • Cascading Style Sheets

  • Used for the "look and feel" of the website,
    separation of content and layout/design

  • Spec maintained by W3C

  • Current Version: CSS3

Using Stylesheets

  • External File (best practice)                                                     
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/>
  • Internal Stylesheet
    <style type="text/css">
    #container {
        width: 1000px;
        margin: auto;
    }
</style>
  • Inline Styles (worst practice)
    <span style="color:red; font-weight:bold">
    Lorem ipsum and the rest
    </span>

Syntax


#container {
    width: 1000px;    margin: auto;}.header {    font-size: 24px;    color: #FF0000;}
  • Selector ("#container", ".header")

  • Property/Value Pairs

Selectors


  • Use "*" to style EVERYTHING

  • Use a tag name to style all of those tags

  • Use "#" to style by id

  • Use "." to style by class

  • Many, many more


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By Ben Centra

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New and improved Intro to Webs seminar for Computer Science House. Features the basics of HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.

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