Hi everybody.
I'm not sure if I should say welcome back or goodbye.
Because this is the end of the class.
I know that you might be a little bit surprised like, what that's it?
I don't feel like I'm ready to be a web developer yet.
Well I'm here to tell you, your not ready to be a web developer.
But what you have learned is that with the exception of a few things called forms and
a little bit about graphics, you have learned the bulk of the HTML 5 tags.
You've learned their syntax and their semantics.
With that information, you are now ready to go off and
learn even more about the areas that really interest you in particular.
Whether that's design, accessibility, user experience.
And it's very important that you have this basic understanding
before you go into these other ideas.
So let's think about some of the things you've learned.
One of the first tools that's now in your toolbox is that you can view and
edit code, which is something a lot of people have difficulty with.
You can use that editor to modify an existing HTML file.
You can create one from scratch.
There's a lot of different things that you can do using the editors that
you've now mastered.
You also know the different options for opening a file.
I'm not sure if you remember, but just a few short weeks ago when you saw
an HTML file, probably the only thing you could do was open it in a browser.
Now you know how to do many more things than that.
You also are at the very beginning of learning how to evaluate for
accessibility.
From the first step of viewing other people's source code and looking for
those semantic tags, you know the importance that these tags have for
people who want to access your page.
You also have the ability to gothe validator.org to check for
well-structured syntactic code.
Or to go to WebAIM to check for that semantic structure that people may or
may not be using in their code.
Again, the ability to evaluate accessibility is something
that we really need more and more people to know.
Finally, you also, hopefully, know how to publish your site or at the very least,
you know the basics if you do decide to publish in the future.
You know about domain names, you know about hosting, and
you know that you really don't want to buy that one domain name they keep
trying to sell you in the Super Bowl unless you're also willing to buy a host.
You've also achieved some familiarity, no matter how small, with so
many systems that are out there.
You've learned about cPanel, you've learned about FTP, you've learned about
different browsers, and you've learned about different types of editors.
And this is all information you can use to expand your knowledge in other areas.
So what should you do next?
If you've found this course interesting,
what you really want to do is you want to practice you skills.
Keep writing code, keep using tags.
It there is a tag you're not sure about.
That is especially the one that you want to practice with.
You want to get comfortable with multiple editors.
If you've been using Notepad Plus Plus, try Sublime.
If you've been using Sublime try Textwrangler.
Keep working with different editors, and
while you're at it, try different browsers too.
Try uploading your code.
If you didn't host your site, I really encourage you to
find a free hosting service and try putting it out there.
Because once you can share your code with other people
you get much more motivated to do new things.
And finally, the most important thing you probably wanna do,
is learn about cascading style sheets.
Cascading style sheets is a method you're gonna use to take your plain,
everyday HTML file and make it look like something really special.
Of course, I happen to be offering a course in CSS 3,
and I hope you'll join me for that.
But if you decided you just don't have the time to do that, I want to let you know
that when this course is over and after you've submitted your final project,
I will be sending you a link to what I call my secret lecture.
And in that secret lecture,
I want to show you ways that you can style your page in very simple steps.
And I hope it's something you'll enjoy and
help you to continue your journey into HTML 5.