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To help with those creating tutorials, as well as my own future tutorials, I would like to quantify levels of expertise in HTML. I have found that sometimes these skill levels are not well defined. So as a resource for students to gage if a tutorial is right for them I’ve come up with the following. For this scale, I will use Beginner, Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced to indicate what prior knowledge a student should know before taking on a tutorial. For each level, the student should know or have:
Beginner
- absolutely no previous knowledge of HTML.
Basic HTML
- An understanding of how opening tags and closing tags work
- How to create an HTML document with the proper DOCTYPE
- How to nest HTML tags within another
- How to use attributes, and use them to inline style or add required data. For example the
<a>href attribute. - How to use
<style>and<script>to put CSS and JavaScript onto a HTML document
Intermediate HTML
- Knowing most of HTML tags in the language
- Understand when to use tags. Example the children of a
<ul>tag should be<li>in most cases - The client-server relationship in the abstract
- How to use attributes to style and identification for tags
- How to link external resources like CSS, and JavaScript into your HTML.
- An understanding of the Document Object Model or DOM works
- How your HTML will be read by accessible hardware such as screen readers
Advanced HTML
- Knowing all the HTML tags
- The ability to manipulate the DOM
- Understanding how to create your own attributes using
data-* - Build HTML documents semantically
- How your HTML will be read by Google, Facebook, etc. for content
In the end, this is only a guideline. There will be some tutorials out there that fall in that grey space between basic and intermediate, or intermediate and advanced.