About Us

HighSchoolWebDesign.com was built to serve the needs of high school teachers who believe the best way to learn the fundamentals of web design is to learn to code by hand.

Nearly all existing textbooks and lesson plans on the topic of web design are based on Dreamweaver or other tools, which do not adequately educate students on how web pages and the internet actually work.

From feedback we have received, those students who first learn HTML and CSS by hand coding in a text editor gain a far deeper understanding and appreciation of web design. Many of these students who are later introduced to Dreamweaver find such tools to interfere with the control over their web pages and return to straight coding.

The lesson plans, projects, PowerPoints, tests, and rubrics on this site were all created with one goal in mind: to teach high school students how to be competent web designers without the use of any specialized software.

School districts wishing to purchase the Web Site Design Curriculum Pack may do so from the Purchase page.

If you have any questions about the curriculum or this site, please contact us. You can send us an email, call us at 1-888-552-1323, or send us regular mail at: