Introduction to Basic HTML & CSS for WordPress Users

This Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) course takes you through the basics of HTML and CSS, teaching you about simple changes that can be made to your website such as changing the size of your text or the background color.
The course begins with a brief overview of HTML, CSS, and web inspectors, and then delves into web page development and how to style content using HTML tags. You’ll learn how to create child themes from your parent theme and find out how they generally work on WordPress websites. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with the basic structure of CSS code and understand why CSS is such a powerful tool for designing websites. In addition to this, you’ll explore classes and IDs along with the crucial rules of CSS specificity. Armed with basic knowledge of HTML and CSS, you’ll learn to make design changes to a wide variety of WordPress themes. Finally, you’ll cover different types of CSS properties and the basics of CSS animations.
By the end of this course, you’ll have gained knowledge of both HTML and CSS, and be able to confidently style WordPress websites.

Type
video
Category
publication date
2020-08-25
what you will learn

Make simple CSS changes to a WordPress website
Understand how HTML and CSS work to create a web page
Use web inspectors to identify the styling used in web pages
Find out how to write margin, border, and padding values
Get to grips with the important rules of CSS specificity

duration
248
key features
Get to grips with the basic structure of an HTML page * Understand the differences between inline and block elements * Gain basic knowledge of HTML and understand how it is used to develop a web page
approach
This hands-on course is designed to teach you the basics of HTML and CSS from a WordPress perspective with the help of detailed explanations and practical examples.
audience
This course is for students who want to learn the basics of HTML and CSS. WordPress users interested in learning how to make simple styling changes to their website will also find this course useful. No prior programming experience is required.
meta description
Get to grips with the basics of HTML and CSS, and make simple design changes to your WordPress website
short description
Are you a WordPress user who struggles to make basic styling changes to your website?
Do you get frustrated when you try to change the size of your text or maybe the background color of your website?
Are you curious about the structural and design code used to produce those pages on your WordPress website?
Well, then this course is exactly for you.
subtitle
Get to grips with the basics of HTML and CSS, and make simple design changes to your WordPress website
keywords
HTML, CSS, WordPress
Product ISBN
9781800567795