HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the basic markup language for websites. HTML provides a website’s structure, content, and formatting through document components called elements. To specify how elements should appear, developers use a stylesheet language called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

In this guided project, you will learn how to create a simple web page using HTML. You will create a HTML document. Next, you will add a head element to define the web page’s metadata, which is data about the web page such as its title and publication date. You will create a body element. Then you will practice adding other basic structural elements such as headings, paragraphs, images, lists, tables, and links.

You will then explore several ways to use CSS to modify the appearance of elements. You will change an element’s font family, font size, font color, and background color. You will also add borders to tables and discover how to make tables more appealing and readable.

Completing this guided project will prepare you to create and style simple websites and to start learning more complex web development skills.

A Look at the Project Ahead
Once you have completed this project, you'll be able to:

What You’ll Need
Just a web browser!

Everything else is provided to you via the IBM Skills Network Labs environment. This environment works best with current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari.

Your Instructor
Ramesh Sannareddy