1 00:00:08,740 --> 00:00:09,770 Hi everybody. 2 00:00:09,770 --> 00:00:11,990 I'm not sure if I should say welcome back or goodbye. 3 00:00:11,990 --> 00:00:13,450 Because this is the end of the class. 4 00:00:14,580 --> 00:00:17,550 I know that you might be a little bit surprised like, what that's it? 5 00:00:17,550 --> 00:00:20,170 I don't feel like I'm ready to be a web developer yet. 6 00:00:20,170 --> 00:00:23,650 Well I'm here to tell you, your not ready to be a web developer. 7 00:00:23,650 --> 00:00:27,150 But what you have learned is that with the exception of a few things called forms and 8 00:00:27,150 --> 00:00:30,510 a little bit about graphics, you have learned the bulk of the HTML 5 tags. 9 00:00:30,510 --> 00:00:33,700 You've learned their syntax and their semantics. 10 00:00:35,050 --> 00:00:37,790 With that information, you are now ready to go off and 11 00:00:37,790 --> 00:00:41,310 learn even more about the areas that really interest you in particular. 12 00:00:41,310 --> 00:00:45,260 Whether that's design, accessibility, user experience. 13 00:00:45,260 --> 00:00:48,390 And it's very important that you have this basic understanding 14 00:00:48,390 --> 00:00:50,680 before you go into these other ideas. 15 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:53,000 So let's think about some of the things you've learned. 16 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,380 One of the first tools that's now in your toolbox is that you can view and 17 00:00:57,380 --> 00:01:00,730 edit code, which is something a lot of people have difficulty with. 18 00:01:00,730 --> 00:01:04,300 You can use that editor to modify an existing HTML file. 19 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:06,040 You can create one from scratch. 20 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:08,890 There's a lot of different things that you can do using the editors that 21 00:01:08,890 --> 00:01:10,710 you've now mastered. 22 00:01:10,710 --> 00:01:13,120 You also know the different options for opening a file. 23 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:17,220 I'm not sure if you remember, but just a few short weeks ago when you saw 24 00:01:17,220 --> 00:01:21,050 an HTML file, probably the only thing you could do was open it in a browser. 25 00:01:21,050 --> 00:01:23,010 Now you know how to do many more things than that. 26 00:01:24,490 --> 00:01:27,290 You also are at the very beginning of learning how to evaluate for 27 00:01:27,290 --> 00:01:28,490 accessibility. 28 00:01:28,490 --> 00:01:31,800 From the first step of viewing other people's source code and looking for 29 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:35,850 those semantic tags, you know the importance that these tags have for 30 00:01:35,850 --> 00:01:38,330 people who want to access your page. 31 00:01:38,330 --> 00:01:41,620 You also have the ability to gothe validator.org to check for 32 00:01:41,620 --> 00:01:44,140 well-structured syntactic code. 33 00:01:44,140 --> 00:01:48,510 Or to go to WebAIM to check for that semantic structure that people may or 34 00:01:48,510 --> 00:01:50,780 may not be using in their code. 35 00:01:50,780 --> 00:01:53,870 Again, the ability to evaluate accessibility is something 36 00:01:53,870 --> 00:01:55,770 that we really need more and more people to know. 37 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,735 Finally, you also, hopefully, know how to publish your site or at the very least, 38 00:02:00,735 --> 00:02:03,975 you know the basics if you do decide to publish in the future. 39 00:02:03,975 --> 00:02:06,755 You know about domain names, you know about hosting, and 40 00:02:06,755 --> 00:02:09,805 you know that you really don't want to buy that one domain name they keep 41 00:02:09,805 --> 00:02:13,645 trying to sell you in the Super Bowl unless you're also willing to buy a host. 42 00:02:14,735 --> 00:02:18,805 You've also achieved some familiarity, no matter how small, with so 43 00:02:18,805 --> 00:02:20,590 many systems that are out there. 44 00:02:20,590 --> 00:02:24,590 You've learned about cPanel, you've learned about FTP, you've learned about 45 00:02:24,590 --> 00:02:27,260 different browsers, and you've learned about different types of editors. 46 00:02:27,260 --> 00:02:32,020 And this is all information you can use to expand your knowledge in other areas. 47 00:02:33,365 --> 00:02:35,285 So what should you do next? 48 00:02:35,285 --> 00:02:36,855 If you've found this course interesting, 49 00:02:36,855 --> 00:02:39,475 what you really want to do is you want to practice you skills. 50 00:02:39,475 --> 00:02:41,435 Keep writing code, keep using tags. 51 00:02:41,435 --> 00:02:43,335 It there is a tag you're not sure about. 52 00:02:43,335 --> 00:02:45,625 That is especially the one that you want to practice with. 53 00:02:46,725 --> 00:02:49,135 You want to get comfortable with multiple editors. 54 00:02:49,135 --> 00:02:52,055 If you've been using Notepad Plus Plus, try Sublime. 55 00:02:52,055 --> 00:02:55,090 If you've been using Sublime try Textwrangler. 56 00:02:55,090 --> 00:02:57,040 Keep working with different editors, and 57 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:58,990 while you're at it, try different browsers too. 58 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:02,180 Try uploading your code. 59 00:03:02,180 --> 00:03:04,820 If you didn't host your site, I really encourage you to 60 00:03:04,820 --> 00:03:07,830 find a free hosting service and try putting it out there. 61 00:03:07,830 --> 00:03:10,490 Because once you can share your code with other people 62 00:03:10,490 --> 00:03:12,920 you get much more motivated to do new things. 63 00:03:14,050 --> 00:03:16,960 And finally, the most important thing you probably wanna do, 64 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,300 is learn about cascading style sheets. 65 00:03:19,300 --> 00:03:23,250 Cascading style sheets is a method you're gonna use to take your plain, 66 00:03:23,250 --> 00:03:27,210 everyday HTML file and make it look like something really special. 67 00:03:27,210 --> 00:03:29,840 Of course, I happen to be offering a course in CSS 3, 68 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,240 and I hope you'll join me for that. 69 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,130 But if you decided you just don't have the time to do that, I want to let you know 70 00:03:36,130 --> 00:03:40,330 that when this course is over and after you've submitted your final project, 71 00:03:40,330 --> 00:03:42,950 I will be sending you a link to what I call my secret lecture. 72 00:03:42,950 --> 00:03:44,600 And in that secret lecture, 73 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:48,610 I want to show you ways that you can style your page in very simple steps. 74 00:03:48,610 --> 00:03:50,290 And I hope it's something you'll enjoy and 75 00:03:50,290 --> 00:03:55,034 help you to continue your journey into HTML 5.