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Free online courseWeb 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

  • Build basic webpages using HTML structure, tags, and linking CSS/JS
  • Use CSS to style pages: colors, typography, selectors, and the box model
  • Create CSS layouts with positioning, floats/flexbox concepts, and responsive techniques
  • Apply semantic HTML tags and explain why semantics matter for structure/SEO/accessibility
  • Set up Bootstrap 3 correctly (CSS + JS + jQuery) and build responsive components
  • Understand why some Bootstrap features fail without required dependencies (e.g., dropdowns)
  • Explain JavaScript’s role in web development: behavior, interactivity, and DOM manipulation
  • Write JS basics: if/else, comparison operators, functions, arrays, loops, and script placement
  • Select DOM elements in JS (e.g., get all

    tags) and respond to events

  • Use classes/attributes to manage UI state (e.g., an 'edit' class in a to-do editor)
  • Use Git/GitHub for source control: commits, branching, merging, pull requests, workflows
  • Use jQuery: document ready, event binding, targeting by attribute, updating element content
  • Use terminal basics like changing directories and navigating the command line
  • Understand how the Internet works for developers: frontend, requests, and web basics

Course Description

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?

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