Sams Teach Yourself Video Learning is the easiest way to learn a new technology.
- Self-Paced--Learn on your own time, at your own pace
- Visual--Video lessons clearly explain key concepts and show you exactly what to do
- Learn By Doing--Interactive, hands-on learning labs so you can apply what you learn right away
- Quick and Efficient--Each individual lesson is no longer than 10 minutes
- Modular--Bite-sized lessons let you jump in anywhere
In just 10 minutes or less, each short video lesson clearly explains key concepts, terms, and techniques. You can stop, start, pause, or replay any part of the video you want, as often as you want, until you really understand everything in the lesson.
And then you get to try it yourself in a unique interactive learning lab that helps you begin to develop real live programs that you can use on your own website.
After you’re done, take a quick, fun quiz to test what you’ve learned before going on to the next lesson.
Learn how to...
- Design and create eye-catching web pages
- Customize your pages with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Position images, columns, and headings on a page
- Format text, data tables, links, and media
- Publish your pages to a web server
- Create online forms
- Enhance your site with dynamic content
On the DVD...
- Four hours of video lessons with interactive labs and quizzes
- A simple WYSIWYG web page editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux
- An easy-to-install package to set up a web server learning environment on your own computer
- The jEdit programming editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux
- Source files for all the examples and learning labs
How to Watch the Videos
All that’s needed to watch the video lessons in this kit is a basic computer equipped for DVDs and the web:
- A Windows, Mac, or Linux PC with a DVD drive that can read data DVDs.
- A web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari, or Mozilla Firefox.
- The Adobe Flash Player plugin, which allows you to view Flash videos in your browser. If you can watch videos on YouTube, you should be all set.
Once you’re sure you’ve got everything, you’re ready to get started:
1. Insert the DVD from this package into your DVD drive on your computer.
Note: Make sure you’ve put the DVD in your computer’s DVD drive. The DVD will not run on a computer’s CD drive, nor will it work in a DVD player designed for plugging into a TV for watching movies.
2. If the DVD main interface does not automatically start up, navigate to the DVD folder on your computer and double-click on the icon or file named Start (start.exe on Windows or start.app on Mac OS X).
3. To watch the videos, choose the lesson you want to start with from the list of lessons on the left side of the window, and then click the Play button in the player window on the right side.
How to Use the Learning Labs and Take the Quizzes
After each video is complete, you can optionally work through the Learning Lab exercises and take a short (not too hard) quiz to help assess what you’ve learned in that lesson. The Learning Lab exercises in this course require you to create and save HTML and CSS files using a text or web page editor, which you can then view off your computer hard disk in a web browser.
The quizzes after the exercises are relatively short and painless. After you make your choice, the program will tell you immediately if you’re correct or wrong. Your answers are not stored or compiled, so you can take the quizzes as often as you like, and guessing won’t count against you.
Setting Up Your Learning Environment
The accompanying DVD contains a complete software toolkit with everything you’ll need to complete the course’s examples.
You can install this software by clicking the Install Software and Support link on the opening screen of the DVD’s main interface, or by navigating to the DVD in your computer’s file browser and running the file named Software (Software.exe in Windows or Software.app in Mac OS X).
Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS Video Learning is organized into four parts. Each part has six lessons, and each lesson is designed to be completed in 10 minutes or less.
On the PDF Booklet:
Before You Begin
About HTML and CSS 1
About the Video Lessons 2
Who This Video Learning Kit Is For 3
What’s on the DVD 3
How the Course Is Organized 4
1: Using This Video Learning Kit
How to Watch the Videos 7
How to Use the Learning Labs and Take the Quizzes 9
Setting Up Your Learning Environment 9
2: Web Basics Refresher
Workings of the Web 11
Writing Web Pages in HTML 24
On the DVD
Part I: Web Page Basics
Lesson 1: Introduction to HTML
Lesson 2: Creating Your First Page
Lesson 3: Adding Text and More
Lesson 4: Linking Text and Documents
Lesson 5: Adding Your Own Style
Lesson 6: Creating Lists
Part II: Web Page Graphics, Forms, and Media
Lesson 7: Creating Tables
Lesson 8: Using Graphics
Lesson 9: Mapping Images
Lesson 10: Creating Frames
Lesson 11: Building Online Forms
Lesson 12: Using Sound and Video
Part III: Creating and Applying
CSS Styles
Lesson 13: Web Site Design Basics
Lesson 14: Using CSS Rules
Lesson 15: Using CSS Shorthand
Lesson 16: Selectors in Action
Lesson 17: Applying Styles
Lesson 18: Getting to Know the
CSS Box Model
Part IV: Styling Text, Links, and Images with CSS
Lesson 19: Adding Background Images
Lesson 20: Styling Text
Lesson 21: Styling a Flexible Heading
Lesson 22: Styling a Round-Cornered Heading
Lesson 23: Styling Links
Lesson 24: Positioning an Image and Its Caption
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