NCompass Live: Pretty Sweet Tech: HTML5 & CSS3  Basic Building Blocks of the Web
Channel: Nebraska Library Commission
Date: 2020-04-30

Recorded on April 29, 2020
NCompass Live - http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ncompasslive/

Special monthly episodes of NCompass Live! Join the NLC’s Technology Innovation Librarian, Amanda Sweet, as she guides us through the world of library-related 'Pretty Sweet Tech'.

HTML and CSS are the basic building blocks of a website. If you have ever seen a paragraph, bulleted list, heading, or image on a website, you have witnessed HTML in action. CSS is what gives a website style, color, layout and design. The menu you use to navigate a website was made possible because of the Cascading Style Sheet, or CSS. It's somewhat of a symbiotic relationship. CSS cannot exist without Hyper Text Markup Language, or HTML. That menu is really just a styled list of links. The magic is revealed!

In this webinar, you will see the basic layout of a website, and watch it come to life from the ground up. I can't promise you will learn all of HTML and CSS in under fifty minutes, but you will find out what's possible with these two basic languages. Consider it a crash course. Here's what you can expect:

    Gain exposure to HTML and CSS through a demonstration.
    Learn free tools to practice these skills independently.
    Learn tips and tricks of "learning how to learn".
    Access a toolkit to teach HTML and CSS in your library.

If you want to learn more, please check out my upcoming HTML and CSS Web Basics course through the Nebraska Library Commission. As a happy coincidence, the course is set to be done right around the time of this webinar. Happy coding, and I hope you can dial in for Pretty Sweet Tech!