HTML April 5, 2019

• HTML

HTML is the essential building block of web pages. It provides structure to content, and gives browsers meaningful information which supports built-in accessibility and discoverability features.

Schedule

• Setup
• Intro to HTML
• Code-along: example personal website
• Workshop: Get started on your personal website

Starter Files

For most web development classes, we’ll have some files to get you started on work we might do together, in groups or pairs, or individually as labs. For today, here are the first installments:

Ironhack Press Release (download) (preview)

Cookie Recipe (download) (preview)

Resources

HTML

• MDN’s documentation
• HTML validator
• Best practices

Accessibility

• A11y
• Contrast Checker
• How blind people see the internet

Boilerplate

• HTML Boilerplate

The road so far

• The history of the internet
• The first website

Ironhack Learning Platform

• Intro to HTML
• HTML: Block - Inline Elements
• Development Handoff - Zeplin
• External Resources - Web Design Week
• Introduction to Git/Github
• Cheatsheet - HTML
• Cheatsheet - Structure a website: