Introduction to Basic HTML & CSS for WordPress Users
What you'll learn
- Make simple CSS changes to their WordPress websites
- Understand how HTML and CSS work to produce a web page
- Use web inspectors to identify the styling used on web pages
Course content
- Preview03:50
- Preview02:22
- 04:08Udemy Tips and Asking Questions
- Preview01:42
- Preview04:42
- 04:16Major Update 1 - The Inspector Tool
- 04:09Major Update 2 - Gutenberg
Requirements
- Basics of WordPress
- Basic Knowledge of HTML or CSS is helpful but not required
Description
** Updated Dec 17, 2020 with 4 new videos**
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? Or are you simply curious about the structural and design code used to produce those pages on your WordPress website? Well look no further because this course is exactly for you.
There are many WordPress users who want to know how make simple changes to their website so they don't have to spend money hiring web developers to do so. The problem is that while they want to learn, there are no CSS courses online that teach students the basics of HTML and CSS specifically for WordPress websites.
This course is designed specifically for WordPress users like you with no programming experience. You will learn the basics of HTML and CSS but from a WordPress perspective.
Course Curriculum:
In the first section, you will be given a brief overview of HTML and CSS and also what web inspectors are.
We will cover the basics of HTML in the second section. You will lean:
The basic structure of an HTML page
The differences between inline and block elements
Spans and inline styling
Backgrounds
Margins, borders and paddings
and much more
By the end of this section, you would have gained invaluable background on the basics of HTML and how they it used to develop a web page. You would also have learned to apply some styling to your content using HTML tags.
In the third section, we will focus squarely on CSS. You will first learn how to create child themes from your parent theme and how they generally work on WordPress websites. You will then learn about the basic structure of a CSS code and why CSS is such a powerful tool for designing websites. You will also learn about classes & IDs and also the extremely important rules of CSS specificity.
By the end of the CSS section, you will have learned enough about CSS to begin to edit real WordPress themes.
Section 4 is where all the fun starts. Having already gained the basic knowledge of both HTML and CSS, you will learn how to apply the knowledge to make design changes to a wide variety of WordPress themes in a series of projects. You will also learn about different types of CSS properties and we will round up the course by learning about the basics of CSS animations.
If you are a WordPress user frustrated about not being able to make basic styling changes to your website, you NEED this course. This course exposes you to just about enough knowledge of both HTML and CSS to be able to style your WordPress website all on your own.
I hope you sign up for the course today.
Alex.
Who this course is for:
- Students who have no programming experience but want to learn the basics of HTML and CSS
- WordPress users interested in learning how to make simple styling changes to their website
Instructors
![Alexander Oni](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 30,017 Reviews
- 119,457 Students
- 25 Courses
My passion is teaching people through online courses in a fun and entertaining manner. I have been teaching online for about 3 years now and during this period, I have created over 25 different courses with more than 100,000 students registered worldwide.
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If you want to do any of these things, just enroll in the course and I'm always improving my courses so that they stay up to date and the best that they can be. Check them out, and enroll today!
MORE ABOUT ALEX:
We all have one shot at life and as such, I believe in living life to the fullest. This means constantly stepping out of my comfort zone by visiting new places and trying out new things. My relative success on Udemy has given me both financial freedom and the ability to be location independent. I am currently travelling around the world spending about a month in one city (current location is Chiang Mai, Thailand) before moving on to the next.
My hobbies include watching movies, sports and playing chess. I am also a huge Dead by Daylight gamer.