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Build Your Own Website : A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress.
Title:
Build Your Own Website : A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress.
Author:
Cooper, Nate.
ISBN:
9781593276072
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (266 pages)
Contents:
A Note from the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: The First Day of Class -- What You Need -- A Web Browser -- A Text Editor -- Stuff to Know -- How Do You Read an Address? -- What Are Clients and Servers? -- What's a Host? -- Chapter 2: The Trouble with HTML -- Basic HTML Tags -- Paths and Naming Conventions -- Dealing with Pictures -- Playing with HTML -- Getting Started -- Using Basic HTML Tags -- Embedding Images into Your Web Page -- Adding a Head to Your Document -- Some Useful HTML Tags -- Chapter 3: Kim Makes Things Look Great with CSS -- Enter CSS -- Kim Learns Basic CSS -- Digging into CSS -- Kim Learns CSS Classes and IDs -- Cascading Style Sheets -- Setting Up Your Stylesheet and Linking It to Your HTML -- Making Your First Stylesheet -- CSS: The Language of Style -- CSS Syntax -- Classes, IDs, and Inheritance -- Colors -- The Tag and Alignment with CSS -- Margins and Padding -- s in the Real World -- Chapter 4: Kim Arrives in WordPress City -- Kim Arrives in WordPress City -- Kim Learns Her Way Around WordPress -- Kim Builds Her First Page in WordPress -- Kim Organizes Her Site -- Kim Adds Photos and Other Media to Her Site -- Getting Started with WordPress -- Logging In and Out of WordPress -- Check Your Work As You Go -- WordPress Content: Posts and Pages -- Plan Your Site -- Creating Your First Page -- Creating a Blog Post -- Getting Organized: Post Categories and Tags -- Featured Images -- Using Video, Photos, and Quotes with Post Formats -- Managing and Deleting Content -- Chapter 5: Customizing WordPress -- The Appearance Panel -- Superpower Your Site with Plugins -- Kim Looks Behind the Curtain -- Changing the Appearance: Theme Basics -- Customizing Your Theme -- Customizing Your Navigation Menu -- Understanding the Screen Options Tab -- Customized Settings -- Advanced Customization -- Plugins -- Widgets.

Updates -- Moving Hosts Using the Tools Panel -- For More Help -- Chapter 6: The Big Launch -- There's No Place Like Your Web Host -- Kim's Portfolio Finds a Home -- A Network of Friends -- So You're Ready to Set Up Your Website -- Setting Up Hosting: A Home Online -- Getting a Basic HTML and CSS Site Up and Running -- Setting Up WordPress -- Conclusion.
Abstract:
Build Your Own Website is a fun, illustrated introduction to the basics of creating a website. Join Kim and her little dog Tofu as she learns HTML, the language of web pages, and CSS, the language used to style web pages, from the Web Guru and Glinda, the Good Witch of CSS.Once she figures out the basics, Kim travels to WordPress City to build her first website, with Wendy, the WordPress Maven, at her side. They take control of WordPress® themes, install useful plugins, and more.As you follow along, you'll learn how to:Use HTML tagsMake your site shine with CSSCustomize WordPress to fit your needsChoose a company to host your site and get advice on picking a good domain nameThe patient, step-by-step advice you'll find in Build Your Own Website will help you get your website up and running in no time. Stop dreaming of your perfect website and start making it!.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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