Build Your Own Website - A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress

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 WordPressr themes, install useful plugins, and more. As you follow along, you'll learn how to: -Use HTML tags -Make your site shine with CSS -Customize WordPress to fit your needs -Choose a company to host your site and get advice on picking a good domain name The 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!

List of contents

Chapter 1: The First Day of Class
Chapter 2: The Trouble with HTML
Chapter 3: Kim Makes Things Look Great with CSS
Chapter 4: Kim Explores WordPress City
Chapter 5: Customizing WordPress
Chapter 6: The Big Launch
Index

Report

"The comic book format may be a perfect vehicle for teaching this sort of skill."
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"An excellent book."
The Chartered Institute for IT

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Product details

• Authors: Nate Cooper, Cooper Nate, Kim Gee
• Assisted by: Kim Gee (Illustration)
• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2014
• EAN: 9781593275228
• ISBN: 978-1-59327-522-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Web graphics and design, Web graphics & design, COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Design