Basic Web Design Video Course – Basic HTML Tags, Structure & CSS [Part 2]

Howdy, guys, it’s Mike here again and this is the second part of our “Basic Web Design Video Course”. This time we will talk about the tools needed before starting out with HTML and CSS,  then we will learn the most commonly used HTML tags.

For this tutorial, we will only cover the tags that are very useful to beginners, we will cover more tags at a later time. Then, we will style the tags using basic CSS properties. No worries guys, in the next videos we will go more in-depth and learn together.

Have you seen the first part?

If you missed out the first chapter make sure to watch it!

Download: PSD Template

Part 1: Basic Web Design Video Course – Wireframing, Photoshop Tools & Panels, and Designing
Part 2: Basic Web Design Video Course – Basic HTML Tags, Structure & CSS Properties
Part 3: Basic Web Design Video Course – Complete HTML Markup & CSS Styles

Final Product

Preparation

Text Editor

Windows

• Intype
• Notepad++
• Aptana

Mac

• Textwrangler
• Textmate
• Aptana

HTML Basic Tags and Structure

We will talk about the most commonly used tags that you’ll see on a website. We will cover headings, paragraphs, links, images, list items and divisions. Also we will familiarize ourselves with the basic structure of HTML markup and how to open and close a tag.

Basic CSS Properties

In this video we will learn to style a certain element or tag using CSS properties by changing width, height, colors, floats, etc. Using these basic properties we can turn our HTML markup into a well presented website.

Now that we have finished positioning our layout structure we can now proceed to the next part, which is marking up the HTML of our very basic design template and completely style it using CSS.

So, that’s it for this part. I hope you learned something and found the videos helpful. If you have any suggestions regarding the videos, or how I presented them, please leave a comment below. I’m really excited to hear your thoughts in the comment section, see you guys down there.