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.