Welcome to the IWATS Imperial Internet Communications course. The
current Professor of this course is
Dean Astin. These courses are designed to teach you not
only the fundamentals of HTML, but to also teach you to thinking about your code, and to
recognize what is wrong with your code when it doesn't work. These new courses are also a
departure from the old ones in the way they are assessed. Previously, the courses only have
practical testing. Now the testing includes theory and practical. This will hopefully give
you a more rounded knowledge of HTML. This course is an updated version of the IIC course
written by Wolf Blacker, and contains some of his original content, updated to current
standards.
The course is divided into three sections. Each section increases in difficulty and knowledge.
IIC covers the basics that will get your page up and running. IIC/2 covers more advanced topics
that will help make your page better and allow you to apply different techniques. These course notes are not a complete reference to creating web sites; it
is simply a basic course on HTML structures, with a limited amount of CSS and Javascript involved.
If you wish to check out other HTML references, please see the Resources Section.
Since HTML is essentially text, you need an editor to modify and create files. An "editor" can vary
from something as simple as DOS EDIT or Notepad to more advanced products like Macromedia Dreamweaver.
Dreamweaver has a lot of features that make coding easy, such as tag completion and CSS support.
Additionally, you can either view the code, the design, or a combination. The link to Dreamweaver can
be found in the files section, and a 30 day trial can be downloaded from Macromedia. Another good free
tool is Notepad++, which is also located in the files section of the course. An HTML file can be tested
on your personal computer, so no special tools are required for testing.
Note that all HTML is in Courier New font in the IIC courses. For those who don't know what Courier New
looks like, here is an example:
This text is in Courier New.