Basics of Web Authoring and Design

{A Reference for Basic HTML5, CSS, Web Design, and Web Authoring}

What is Web Design?

Web design describes the various tasks involved in the designing of HTML driven web pages to be displayed and accessed over the World Wide Web.

What is Web Authoring?

Web authoring, simply, is the creation and maintenance of a website through the use of HTML and CSS.

Why should I care?

More and more of our life is beginning to surround websites.

We regularuly communicate, gather infromation, pay our bills, access our banking account, and shop through websites. The days of needing a magazine, letter, or book to gather information and share information is long past. It has become its own medium as well as the most expansive medium that we interact with.
In doing so, it has opened an entirely new way for marketing yourself, spreading your throughts, and sharing your knowledge. A new market is developing, one that makes learnjing basic web development skills a major asset.

But knowing where to start can be difficult.

The field is so ezpansive that finding a resource that covers basic fundamentals of website authoring and design, as well as how to actually compose your site is hard to find. The reality is that there is so much information to cover that one webpage isn't enough.
However, on this website, I have compiled information that can lead you on your way to building a basic website like this one. We will cover the web design fundamentals, how to create basic HTML5 and CSS documents, and different methods of visual design.