CIS 195 Web Authoring 1: HTML
Week 2 Overview for Fall 2026
Oct. 5 through 11
| Week number and Topic | |
|---|---|
| 1. Intro to HTML | 6. Layout with CSS |
| 2. More HTML, file paths | 7. CSS Flexbox and Grid |
| 3. Site structure and navigation | 8. HTML Forms |
| 4. Formatting with CSS | 9. Multimedia |
| 5. Midterm, Project Proposal | 10. Tables, Project Completion |
| 11. Final |
More on Creating Web Pages with HTML
This week you will learn some of the history of the World Wide Web and more about creating web pages with HTML.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this week, you will be able to:
- Explain the history and purpose of HTML.
- Review the use of basic formatting elements like <strong> or <ul>.
- Use the
<blockquote>element. - Use the
<figure>element. - Use special characters like ♥.
- Create nested lists.
- Understand the difference between in-line and block elements.
- Understand absolute and relative paths
- When specifying an image
- When making a link to another page
This Week’s To-Do List
Links and due date are in the week 2 module on Canvas.
- Do the reading:
- History of HTML
- More selected sections in The HTML Handbook.
- Selected sections on W3 Schools
- Watch the lecture recordings and read the lecture notes.
- Take Quiz 2 which is based on the reading— due Thursday, October 8, by 11:59 pm.
- Start Lab 2 — due Thursday, October 15, by 11:59 pm.
Web Authoring Lecture Notes by Brian Bird, 2018, revised , are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.