Turbo HTML

This course is free - just use the register link in the sidebar and get access to probably the best html course on the internet:

If you are new to web page creation or blog tweaking then Turbo HTML is the fast and easy way to learn and master HTML. It will take you about 2 hours to go through all 10 of the entertaining modules in this online course. Its better than a book and equivalent courses will easily set you back $100’s if not $1000’s of dollars. The course has been produced by a web expert over many months to make it the fastest, easiest and fun way to learn html. 

When you complete this course you will have the confidence to :

  • create personal web pages
  • create web pages for your online business
  • create web pages for your club or hobby
  • stamp your individuality on your blog, Facebook or MySpace pages
  • make better use of tools like Dreamweaver or Frontpage
  • … and a whole lot more!

Why Is It Important To Master HTML?

An investment in learning html will reward you many fold. All professional web page designers know html and use this knowledge to their advantage when designing a web page. When you learn to create web pages with html you will be miles ahead of most people with your understanding of the web and you will know how to design a web page that does exactly what you want it to do.

The majority of people who start designing web pages think that they need to buy a web design software package. This is ok but what then happens is that they never really get to grips with how the web page is actually structured and how it really works. By first learning to make your web pages with html you will be able to get the most out of any web page design software package.

The course consists of 10 easy to follow lessons in the form of:

  • screencasts for each lesson
  • a simple and fun website that is built up over the course of the lessons

The following is a detailed outline of the course. Click on the heading to access the lesson:

Lesson 1 – HTML Jumpstart

This lesson kickstarts your web page design and creation. You will learn about the World Wide Web, what html is, and how a web page is structured. You will use this new knowledge to write and test your first webpage.

Lesson 2 – How to Add Headings to Your Web Pages

This lesson shows you how to add headings to your web pages. You will then write a web page for a fictitious Mountaineering website (Mountain World News) using your new knowledge of headings.

Lesson 3 – How to Format the Text on Your Web Pages

This lesson shows you how to add text paragraphs to your web pages. It also shows you how add emphasis to the text by making it bold, italic or underlined. Finally you will create a web page with a simple list. It also shows you how to add ordered and unordered lists to your web pages.

Lesson 4 – How to Add Tables to Your Web Pages

Tables are seen as one of the most complex areas of html, but this lesson shows you how to easily add tables to your web pages. It also introduces html attributes which allow you to better control how your table and pages look.

Lesson 5 – How to Add Color to Your Web Pages

In this lesson you will learn how color is represented on a web page. You will also see how color is represented in hexadecimal notation (without blinking) and you will add color to one of your web pages.

Lesson 6 – How to Change the Fonts used on Your Web Pages

This lesson shows you how to change the size, type and color of fonts on your web pages so that you can mix and match fonts to get the exact effect that you need.

Lesson 7 – How to Layout Your Web Pages

This lesson shows you how to use a grid and tables to layout your web pages. You will also layout and create the Mountain World News Homepage.

Lesson 8 – How to Add Links to Your Web Pages

This lesson shows you how to add links to your web pages. You will also create an About page for the Mountain World News website. And you create a simple menu that allows you to navigate between the Homepage and About page.

Lesson 9 – How to Add Images and Photos to Your Web Pages

In this lesson you learn about graphic file formats including GIF and JPEG. We add a photo gallery page to the Mountain World News website and we add some excellent photos and a GIF header graphic to it.

Lesson 10 – How to Add Forms to Your Web Pages

In this lesson we show you how to add forms to your web pages by creating a Contact Us page for the Mountain World News website.