Web development for Beginners

Identify the three building blocks of a website: pages display content, links, and forms. See how links move between pages and how forms send data.

Discover how a web page is built from HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and learn how elements are structured, styled, and made dynamic with browser tools.

Open the page source to see how the head and body organize content, including the title, icons, and linked scripts, styles, and external resources.

Learn how users access websites through domain names mapped to IP addresses, how browsers request pages from servers, and how hosting and server responses deliver web content.

Discover three ways to make a web page: static HTML served by a web server, a server-side language, and a database connection to fetch data.

Explore how the front end and back end work together to power a web page, from visible content to server-side processing, database interactions, and the languages behind them.

Explain that a full stack web developer writes both front end and back end for web sites.

Discover how a database server comprises a database program, a language, and a user interface, runs from a web server, and stores data in tables for websites and apps.

Tables organize databases with rows and columns, where every row holds a value and each column has a type. Keys connect tables, enable optimization, and privileges control access.

Learn daily core web technologies—HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—and PHP/Apache basics to build web sites. Master databases, code conventions, and security practices to deliver fast, reliable websites.