This section is designed to use the HTML you have learned through practical projects and exercises. Every project and exercise will give you practical skills and experience by building up various components of a website from simple layouts to complex forms and full multi-page sites. These projects will solidify the knowledge of HTML, and then provide chances to add styles and interactivity with CSS and JavaScript.
15.1 Personal Portfolio Web Site
A personal portfolio website is a site that showcases your work, experience, and projects to potential employers or clients. For this assignment, you will be guided in how to develop a professional-looking web site that proves your success and offers a contact area for further connectivity.
How to create it?
- Home Page: Introduction, professional resume, and photo.
- Portfolio Section: Showcase of prior projects with links to descriptions.
- Skills Section: Showcase the technologies and skills you have.
- Contact Form: It is an interactive form with which the visitor can reach out.
Steps to Build:
- Skeleton first: Start creating a simple HTML framework of your website. Include semantic HTML, which helps structure things properly, including using elements that are clearer on their functions, such as the header, nav, main, section, and the footer.
- Include sections: sections for home portfolio, skills, and contact
- Include images: images professional about your work or yourself.
- Use forms: A form may include fields such as name, email, message, and a submit button
- Add links: Add links to your LinkedIn, GitHub, and other networks
Task
Build your personal portfolio website by following the steps above. Share the project with peers for feedback and discuss what changes can improve user experience and design.
15.2 Simple Blog Layout
You will make a simple blog layout that replicates the structure of a basic blog post in this exercise. You will use HTML elements like headings, paragraphs, and lists to create a neat, clean, and readable blog design.
Core Features:
- Title and Metadata: The title, author name, and date of posting are attributes of each blog post.
- Blog content: Headlines, paragraphs, and images.
- Comments Section: Add comment and replies section with comments copied as an unordered list.
How to Build:
- Header Section: Add title of the blog post, author’s name along with date of posting.
- Blog Post: Sample Blog entry with proper title and subheadings with the help of heading tags and paragraph tags to write the body of the content
- Images and Other Media: Use the tag to embed an image within the content of a blog entry. You may even include a video.
- Comments Section: Use <ul> and <li> tags to format comments under the post.
Interactive Activity:
Exercise: Create an outline for a sample blog, including two minimum posts. Having done that, incorporate the comments section using lists to give the appearance of user comments.
15.3 Designing a Responsive Navigation Menu
A responsive navigation menu happens to be a fundamental requirement of modern web design. In this exercise, you would realize the creation of a navigation menu that was super good and responsive to work across all screen sizes using nothing but HTML and CSS.
Key Features:
- Horizontal Navigation: Create a horizontal menu that displays on large screens.
- Hamburger Menu for Mobile: Use a “hamburger” icon on mobile devices to toggle the menu visibility.
- Dropdowns: Create dropdowns for submenu items.
Steps to Build:
- Basic Structure: To create your list of navigation links, use an unordered list. Then a better semantics by using wrapper < nav >.
- CSS for Styling: Using the CSS, you will style your navigation bar. You can make sure it will go horizontal with background colors or borders on it. However, it should also be flexible with whatever screen size .
- When you build your page on a mobile, you can make a hamburger icon. You can add JavaScript or CSS to toggle the visibility of the menu.
Interactive Activity:
- Task: Create a responsive navigation menu that has at least five links with two items in the submenu. The menu must collapse to be a hamburger icon on the screen if viewed on small screens and must be checked for responsiveness using different devices.
15.4 Creating an Interactive Form with Validation
In this project, you will create a fully functional form containing all input fields plus input validation. Your form should have text input fields, drop down lists, check boxes, radio buttons, and a submit button that submits the form request to the server for processing. You will also add basic validation to your form by using HTML5 attributes.
Key Features:
- Text Input Fields: Gather the following information about the user (name, email, password).
- Dropdown Menus: Create menus with dropdown lists to allow users to select options from a list (country, role, etc).
- Radio Buttons and Checkboxes: Allow for multiple or single selections.
- Form Validation: Implement required fields, pattern matching and input length.
How to Create:
- Default Skeleton: Use basic HTML form elements ().
- Form Fields: Incorporate a combination of the following form input fields – text, email, password, dropdown menus, radio buttons and check boxes.
- Form Validation: Implement HTML5 validation using the required, pattern, and maxlength attributes.
- Submit Button: Add a submit button with a simple success message upon form submission.
Interactive Activity:
- Task: Create a form for registering to a website. Add form validation to validate the entry of an email and password before posting.
15.5 Capstone Project: Multi-Page Website
The capstone project is the culmination of all skills and concepts you have learned up to this point. You will construct a multi-page website that could be a portfolio, a small business, or a personal blog. It should include several sections, menus, and interactive elements such as forms, media, etc.
Key Features:
- Multiple Pages: Make sure you have at least four pages. For instance, think of Home, About, Services/Portfolio and Contact.
- Navigation: You will provide a persistent navigation bar throughout all pages.
- Content Structure: He makes use of headings, paragraphs, images and list to communicate the content structure.
- Responsive: The site should be fully responsive on all devices.
- Interactive Contact Form: Include the contact form with validation.
Steps To Build Site:
- HTML Structure: Make an HTML structure where different pages are written in different files.
- Home Page: Your home page should, therefore contain introduction, hero section, and other links leading to other pages.
- About Page: Write about yourself or your company in well-structured paragraphs using appropriate headings.
- Portfolio/Services Page: Display projects, services, or products through images and descriptions.
- Contact Page: Incorporate an interactive form where visitors can reach you. Make sure that the form is well validated and functional.
- Linking Pages: Utilize the <a> tag to link all the pages in the navigation menu.
- Styling with CSS: Implement CSS that will make everything have the same colors, fonts and layout consistently on all pages
Activity:
- Task: Create a web site for a hypothetical client or your portfolio. The site should be professional in looking, is responsive to any browser and includes an interactive contact form.
Conclusion
The projects and exercises will enable you to apply your knowledge of HTML in real-world environments-from a portfolio site for your own work to a complex multi-page web application. Each project gives you hands-on experience with HTML, CSS, and interactive elements, with the goal of preparing you for more ambitious development projects. You’ll have the chance to hone your code through completion of interactive tasks that combine design and functionality improvements.