Austin began the classs with an introduction to HTML and CSS. He explained that HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, which consists of tags that determine how the page will be displayed. Then he introduced the tags necessary to create a very basic webpage: the html tag, the head tag, the title tag, and the body tag. After explaining each of the basic tags, Austin described the importance of nesting, and explained how tabbing your tags will organize your code and make it much easier to read. Austin then introduced other basic tags and let the students experiment with paragraphs and different sizes of headers by including their own custom headers and paragraphs on their webpages. Austin then showed the students how to style their text with <b> tags and <i> tags. After the students created their first basic webpage, they learned about creating lists and tables in html.
Students learned how to create an image on their websites, and about self-closing tags. Students were able to pull an image of their choice from the internet and incorporate it onto their webpages. Austin then gave the students an opportunity to apply what they learned through a little challenge: they had to make an image link to one of their other webpages when clicked. The student who found out how to do it first explained it to the rest of the class.