Week 11 · Web foundations

HTML: building the structure of a web page

Every website you have ever used — WhatsApp Web, KCSE results portals, M-Pesa statements, YouTube — starts as a text file of HTML. Today you write one by hand and open it in a browser. By the end of week 12 it will be your own portfolio site, showing the projects you have built at Chipy.

Web development90 minutesBeginnerLevel 1 module

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Explain how a browser turns an HTML file into a page
Write a valid HTML document with head, body, headings, paragraphs, lists, links and images
Use semantic elements (header, nav, main, section, article, footer)
Start a personal portfolio page (Project 2)

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HTML: building the structure of a web page

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