Synopses & Reviews
Sams Teach Yourself Video Learning is the easiest way to learn a new technology.
- Self-Paced--Learn on your own time, at your own pace
- Visual--Video lessons clearly explain key concepts and show you exactly what to do
- Learn By Doing--Interactive, hands-on learning labs so you can apply what you learn right away
- Quick and Efficient--Each individual lesson is no longer than 10 minutes
- Modular--Bite-sized lessons let you jump in anywhere
In just 10 minutes or less, each short video lesson clearly explains key concepts, terms, and techniques. You can stop, start, pause, or replay any part of the video you want, as often as you want, until you really understand everything in the lesson.
And then you get to try it yourself in a unique interactive learning lab that helps you begin to develop real live programs that you can use on your own website.
After you’re done, take a quick, fun quiz to test what you’ve learned before going on to the next lesson.
Learn how to...
- Design and create eye-catching web pages
- Customize your pages with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Position images, columns, and headings on a page
- Format text, data tables, links, and media
- Publish your pages to a web server
- Create online forms
- Enhance your site with dynamic content
On the DVD...
- Four hours of video lessons with interactive labs and quizzes
- A simple WYSIWYG web page editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux
- An easy-to-install package to set up a web server learning environment on your own computer
- The jEdit programming editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux
- Source files for all the examples and learning labs
How to Watch the Videos
All that’s needed to watch the video lessons in this kit is a basic computer equipped for DVDs and the web:
- A Windows, Mac, or Linux PC with a DVD drive that can read data DVDs.
- A web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari, or Mozilla Firefox.
- The Adobe Flash Player plugin, which allows you to view Flash videos in your browser. If you can watch videos on YouTube, you should be all set.
Once you’re sure you’ve got everything, you’re ready to get started:
1. Insert the DVD from this package into your DVD drive on your computer.
Note: Make sure you’ve put the DVD in your computer’s DVD drive. The DVD will not run on a computer’s CD drive, nor will it work in a DVD player designed for plugging into a TV for watching movies.
2. If the DVD main interface does not automatically start up, navigate to the DVD folder on your computer and double-click on the icon or file named Start (start.exe on Windows or start.app on Mac OS X).
3. To watch the videos, choose the lesson you want to start with from the list of lessons on the left side of the window, and then click the Play button in the player window on the right side.
How to Use the Learning Labs and Take the Quizzes
After each video is complete, you can optionally work through the Learning Lab exercises and take a short (not too hard) quiz to help assess what you’ve learned in that lesson. The Learning Lab exercises in this course require you to create and save HTML and CSS files using a text or web page editor, which you can then view off your computer hard disk in a web browser.
The quizzes after the exercises are relatively short and painless. After you make your choice, the program will tell you immediately if you’re correct or wrong. Your answers are not stored or compiled, so you can take the quizzes as often as you like, and guessing won’t count against you.
Setting Up Your Learning Environment
The accompanying DVD contains a complete software toolkit with everything you’ll need to complete the course’s examples.
You can install this software by clicking the Install Software and Support link on the opening screen of the DVD’s main interface, or by navigating to the DVD in your computer’s file browser and running the file named Software (Software.exe in Windows or Software.app in Mac OS X).
Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS Video Learning is organized into four parts. Each part has six lessons, and each lesson is designed to be completed in 10 minutes or less.
On the PDF Booklet:
Before You Begin
About HTML and CSS 1
About the Video Lessons 2
Who This Video Learning Kit Is For 3
What’s on the DVD 3
How the Course Is Organized 4
1: Using This Video Learning Kit
How to Watch the Videos 7
How to Use the Learning Labs and Take the Quizzes 9
Setting Up Your Learning Environment 9
2: Web Basics Refresher
Workings of the Web 11
Writing Web Pages in HTML 24
On the DVD
Part I: Web Page Basics
Lesson 1: Introduction to HTML
Lesson 2: Creating Your First Page
Lesson 3: Adding Text and More
Lesson 4: Linking Text and Documents
Lesson 5: Adding Your Own Style
Lesson 6: Creating Lists
Part II: Web Page Graphics, Forms, and Media
Lesson 7: Creating Tables
Lesson 8: Using Graphics
Lesson 9: Mapping Images
Lesson 10: Creating Frames
Lesson 11: Building Online Forms
Lesson 12: Using Sound and Video
Part III: Creating and Applying
CSS Styles
Lesson 13: Web Site Design Basics
Lesson 14: Using CSS Rules
Lesson 15: Using CSS Shorthand
Lesson 16: Selectors in Action
Lesson 17: Applying Styles
Lesson 18: Getting to Know the
CSS Box Model
Part IV: Styling Text, Links, and Images with CSS
Lesson 19: Adding Background Images
Lesson 20: Styling Text
Lesson 21: Styling a Flexible Heading
Lesson 22: Styling a Round-Cornered Heading
Lesson 23: Styling Links
Lesson 24: Positioning an Image and Its Caption
Synopsis
Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS Video Learning brings the successful Teach Yourself book series from Sams Publishing to life on video — with the same clear and concise style, practical hands-on examples, and self-paced learning approach that have made the bestselling books so popular with beginners looking for the easiest way to quickly get up to speed on a new technology.
This complete video course provides four hours of clear, well-organized, and carefully crafted video training. Each 10-minute video lesson uses the same step-by-step learning structure that has proven so effective in all Sams Teach Yourself books. After a short overview of the topic from the series instructor, each lesson presents a short, richly illustrated tutorial lesson, followed by a hands-on learning lab, and concluding with an interactive quiz lets the learner test how well he or she has grasped the material before moving on.
With Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS Video Learning, you'll quickly and easily learn all the basics of setting up your own world-class web site:
- Design and create eye-catching web pages
- Customize your pages with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Position images, columns, and headings on a page
- Format text, data tables, links, and media
- Publish your pages to a web server
- Create online forms
- Enhance your site with dynamic content
The DVD includes everything you'll need to get started:
- Four hours of video lessons with interactive labs and quizzes
- A simple WYSIWYG web page editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux
- An easy-to-install package to set up a web server learning environment on your own computer
- The jEdit programming editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux
- Source files for all the examples and learning labs
Synopsis
Designed to help any beginner get up-to-speed with Web design and development, this Video Learning Starter Kit provides four hours of carefully crafted video training lessons on DVD as well as all the software and source files users need to follow along and create the examples themselves.
Synopsis
Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS Video Learning brings the successful Teach Yourself book series from Sams Publishing to life on video - with the same clear and concise style, practical hands-on examples, and self-paced learning approach that have made the bestselling books so popular with beginners looking for the easiest way to quickly get up to speed on a new technology.
This complete video course provides four hours of clear, well-organized, and carefully crafted video training. Each 10-minute video lesson uses the same step-by-step learning structure that has proven so effective in all Sams Teach Yourself books. After a short overview of the topic from the series instructor, each lesson presents a short, richly illustrated tutorial lesson, followed by a hands-on learning lab, and concluding with an interactive quiz lets the learner test how well he or she has grasped the material before moving on. With Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS Video Learning, you'll quickly and easily learn all the basics of setting up your own world-class web site:
Design and create eye-catching web pages Customize your pages with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Position images, columns, and headings on a page Format text, data tables, links, and media Publish your pages to a web server Create online forms Enhance your site with dynamic content The DVD includes everything you'll need to get started: Four hours of video lessons with interactive labs and quizzes A simple WYSIWYG web page editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux An easy-to-install package to set up a web server learning environment on your own computer The jEdit programming editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux Source files for all the examples and learning labs
Synopsis
Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS: Video Learning Starter Kit Bundle
Video + Book
$80 Value (USD)
On the DVD…
. Four hours of interactive video lessons that show you exactly what to do
. Web page editing software to help you get started
In the Book…
. 24 one-hour lessons to read for deeper understanding
. Clear step-by-step instructions to get you productive quickly
All the contents of this DVD are accessible on any DVD-equipped Windows or Mac OS X computer:
. Insert DVD into your computer’s DVD drive.
. Navigate to the DVD folder and double-click on the Start icon or file.
Synopsis
This book/DVD bundle represents a $20 savings versus the cost of buying them separately. It consists of the book Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours and the video course Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS: Video Learning Starter Kit. The Video Learning Starter Kit provides four hours of video training and lessons, along with all the source files and software the beginner needs to create and run the examples. Each 10-minute video lesson uses the same step-by-step learning structure that has proven so effective in all Sams Teach Yourself books - as well as the same clear and concise style, practical hands-on examples, and self-paced learning approach. The book covers only those HTML and CSS tags that are likely to be used on creating a beginning web page. The 24 separate, one hour-long tutorials follow the process by which the reader should be creating his/her web page, building knowledge not only of how to create a web page, but building a general knowledge of how to use HTML and Cascading Style Sheets in other projects as well. No Web development or design experience is required: this book/DVD training package begins with the absolute basics, and is designed expressly to teach beginners everything they need to know to get productive.
About the Author
Dick Oliver has brought his unique and colorful writing style to several web and graphics books from Sams, including Web Page Wizardry and Tricks of the Graphics Gurus. He is the president of Cedar Software and publishes the online newsletter Nonlinear Nonsense. Michael Morrison (Nashville, TN) is a writer, software developer, toy inventor, and author of a variety of Sams books, including the previous edition of this book, Sams Teach Yourself HTML and XHTML in 24 Hours and the second and third editions of Sams Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours.
Table of Contents
On the DVD:
Part I: Web Page Basics
LESSON 1: Introduction to HTML
LESSON 2: Creating Your First Page
LESSON 3: Adding Text and More
LESSON 4: Linking Text and Documents
LESSON 5: Adding Your Own Style
LESSON 6: Creating Lists
Part II: Web Page Graphics, Forms, and Media
LESSON 7: Creating Tables
LESSON 8: Using Graphics
LESSON 9: Mapping Images
LESSON 10: Creating Frames
LESSON 11: Building Online Forms
LESSON 12: Using Sound and Video
Part III: Creating and Applying CSS Styles
LESSON 13: Web Site Design Basics
LESSON 14: Using CSS Rules
LESSON 15: Using CSS Shorthand
LESSON 16: Selectors in Action
LESSON 17: Applying Styles
LESSON 18: Getting to Know the CSS Box Model
Part IV: Styling Text, Links, and Images with CSS
LESSON 19: Adding Background Images
LESSON 20: Styling Text
LESSON 21: Styling a Flexible Heading
LESSON 22: Styling a Round-Cornered Heading
LESSON 23: Styling Links
LESSON 24: Positioning an Image and Its Caption