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Free online course Web Development for beginners

Duration of the online course: 5 hours and 21 minutes

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Build real websites from scratch in this free web development course: learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, GitHub, and publish your site online.

In this free course, learn about

  • HTML and CSS Foundations
  • Responsive Design with Bootstrap
  • Website Hosting and Publishing
  • JavaScript Fundamentals and DOM Events
  • GitHub and Team Collaboration
  • jQuery Basics and Event Binding
  • Command Line Essentials
  • Advanced jQuery Techniques
  • How the Internet and Servers Work
  • Live Development Tools
  • JavaScript Concepts and Closures
  • Mobile Web Design
  • Build Systems and Deployment

About the free online course

Starting in web development can feel overwhelming: there are many tools, unfamiliar terms, and lots of advice that seems to assume you already know the basics. This free online course was created to help you move from curiosity to confidence by building the foundations of modern web pages step by step. You will learn how the pieces fit together and, more importantly, how to use them to create sites that look good, behave correctly, and can actually be shared with the world.

You begin with the core building blocks of the web. By working with HTML and CSS, you learn how pages are structured, how browsers understand your code, and how styling transforms simple text into a clean, readable layout. You will also explore semantic elements and why they matter for accessibility and organization, then use layout techniques to create pages that feel intentional rather than accidental. As you progress, responsive design becomes part of your workflow, using Bootstrap to speed up UI work and ensure your site adapts well to different screen sizes.

Next, you shift from static pages to interactive experiences with JavaScript. You practice core logic like comparisons, conditionals, functions, loops, and arrays, then use selectors to connect code to the page and events to respond to user actions. This is where your web pages start to feel like applications: buttons do something, inputs update the interface, and you understand why script placement affects performance and reliability.

To support real-world development habits, the course also introduces tools that professionals use every day. You get comfortable with basic terminal commands, learn the purpose of version control, and work with GitHub concepts like branching, pull requests, and collaborative workflows. You also touch jQuery to understand a common approach to simplifying DOM interactions. Finally, you learn how to put a website online, upload files to a host, connect a domain, and understand the internet from a developer’s perspective so your work doesn’t stay stuck on your computer.

By the end, you will have a practical foundation across the essential front-end stack and the confidence to keep building, improving your portfolio, and exploring more advanced paths in technology and programming.

Course content

  • Video class: Web Development Tutorial for Beginners (#1) - How to build webpages with HTML, CSS, Javascript 14m
  • Exercise: What is the technology used to put styles in a website, like change the color of a text?
  • Exercise: What type of software to open a .HTML file?
  • Video class: Web Development Tutorial for Beginners (#2) - Basic CSS - How to build a website with HTML & CSS 15m
  • Exercise: What is the purpose of the document type declaration in HTML?
  • Video class: How to create CSS Layouts - Web Development Tutorial for Beginners (#3) - with HTML & CSS 21m
  • Exercise: What are the semantic tags introduced in the video and what is their purpose?
  • Video class: Bootstrap Tutorial For Beginners - Responsive Design with Bootstrap 3 - Responsive HTML, CSS 13m
  • Exercise: What is the correct way to add the Bootstrap CSS and script to your HTML file?
  • Video class: CSS Tutorial - Web Development Tutorial for Beginners (#5) 20m
  • Exercise: What critical component was missing in the initial Bootstrap setup that caused the dropdown not to work?
  • Video class: How to put your website online - how to FTP to a domain & upload files to a webhost 06m
  • Exercise: What are the steps to get a website online with its own domain name?
  • Video class: Javascript Tutorial For Beginners - Free JS Course - Web Development Tutorial 08m
  • Exercise: What is the purpose of JavaScript in web development?
  • Video class: JS Tutorial For Beginners - #2 If Else & Comparison Operators 07m
  • Exercise: What is the comparison operator used to check if a value is less than a certain number in JavaScript?
  • Video class: Javascript Tutorial For Beginners - #3 Javascript Functions Tutorial 13m
  • Exercise: What is the reason for putting the script tag at the bottom of the page?
  • Video class: Javascript Tutorial For Beginners - #4 Javascript Arrays & Loops 14m
  • Exercise: What is an array in JavaScript?
  • Video class: Javascript Selectors - Javascript Tutorial for Beginners With Examples 11m
  • Exercise: What is the method used to grab all the paragraph tags in the HTML document using JavaScript?
  • Video class: Javascript Events Tutorial - How Web Developers Respond to User Input 18m
  • Exercise: What is an event in JavaScript?
  • Video class: Javascript Events Tutorial Part 2 - Javascript Tutorials for Beginning Web Development 15m
  • Exercise: What is the purpose of the "edit" class in the to-do list editor?
  • Video class: Github Tutorial For Beginners - Github Basics for Mac or Windows & Source Control Basics 18m
  • Exercise: Why is source control important in software development?
  • Video class: GITHUB PULL REQUEST, Branching, Merging & Team Workflow 11m
  • Exercise: What is branching in GitHub?
  • Video class: jQuery Tutorial #1 - jQuery Tutorial for Beginners 08m
  • Exercise: What is the purpose of the document ready function in jQuery?
  • Video class: jQuery Tutorial #2 - Event Binding - jQuery Tutorial for Beginners 07m
  • Exercise: What is the method used to change the video inside an HTML element using jQuery?
  • Video class: Basic Terminal Usage - Cheat Sheet to make the command line EASY 08m
  • Exercise: What is the command to change directory in the terminal?
  • Video class: jQuery Tutorial #3 - Writing Smarter, Better Code - jQuery Tutorial for Beginners 06m
  • Exercise: What is the benefit of targeting elements by attribute in jQuery?
  • Video class: How the Internet Works for Developers - Pt 1 - Overview & Frontend 15m
  • Exercise: What is the Internet from a web development perspective?
  • Video class: How the Internet Works for Developers - Pt 2 - Servers & Scaling 11m
  • Exercise: What is the default port for HTTP requests in Apache web server?
  • Video class: Live Reload Sublime, Chrome, Anything - Fast and easy with Live-Server 01m
  • Exercise: What is Live Server and how do you install it?
  • Video class: What Makes Javascript Weird...and AWESOME - Pt 1 05m
  • Exercise: What is one of the things that makes JavaScript weird and awesome?
  • Video class: Javascript is Event-Driven - What makes Javascript Weird...and Awesome Pt 2 05m
  • Exercise: What is the main difference between PHP and JavaScript?
  • Video class: Javascript Closures Tutorial - What makes Javascript Weird...and Awesome Pt 3 04m
  • Exercise: What is a closure in JavaScript?
  • Video class: Mobile Web Design - Coding Workflow For Mobile Websites 08m
  • Exercise: What does "mobile first world" mean in web development?
  • Video class: WHY YOU NEED A BUILD SYSTEM LIKE GRUNT, GULP, BRUNCH FOR YOUR WEBSITE 08m
  • Exercise: What is the purpose of a build system in web development?
  • Video class: GRUNT TUTORIAL - Grunt makes your web development better! 12m
  • Exercise: What is the purpose of using Grunt in web development?
  • Video class: STOP USING FTP! - How to Deploy with Flightplan over SSH 04m
  • Exercise: What is the prerequisite to using Flight Plan for deployment?

This free course includes:

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5 hours and 21 minutes of online video course

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Digital certificate of course completion (Free)

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Exercises to train your knowledge

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What do I need to build and publish my first website?

You need an HTML editor, a web browser for testing, and a web host with a domain name to publish it online via FTP.

How are HTML, CSS, and JavaScript used together in web development?

HTML provides page structure, CSS controls layout and appearance, and JavaScript adds interactivity such as events, forms, and dynamic content.

Does the course cover GitHub, Bootstrap, and command-line basics?

Yes. It introduces GitHub source control, branching and pull requests, Bootstrap responsive design, and essential terminal commands.

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