NCompass Live: Pretty Sweet Tech - HTML5 & CSS3: Basic Building Blocks of the Web - Online 

Special monthly episodes of NCompass Live! Join the NLC’s Technology Innovation Librarian, Amanda Sweet, as she guides us through the world of library-related Pretty Sweet Tech.

HTML and CSS are the basic building blocks of a website. If you have ever seen a paragraph, bulleted list, heading, or image on a website, you have witnessed HTML in action. CSS is what gives a website style, color, layout and design. The menu you use to navigate a website was made possible because of the Cascading Style Sheet, or CSS. It's somewhat of a symbiotic relationship. CSS cannot exist without Hyper Text Markup Language, or HTML. That menu is really just a styled list of links. The magic is revealed!

In this webinar, you will see the basic layout of a website, and watch it come to life from the ground up. I can't promise you will learn all of HTML and CSS in under fifty minutes, but you will find out what's possible with these two basic languages. Consider it a crash course. Here's what you can expect:

• Gain exposure to HTML and CSS through a demonstration.
• Learn free tools to practice these skills independently.
• Learn tips and tricks of "learning how to learn".
• Access a toolkit to teach HTML and CSS in your library.

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