Learning HTML and CSS by making tweetable quotes
Learning HTML and CSS by making tweetable quotes
About the Book
HTML and CSS are key skills to learn if you're working with content - but too often learning it is frustrating because it's all about web design.
This mini book introduces you to some basic HTML by showing you a particularly useful application of simple coding skills: making something in an article 'tweetable'.
You'll learn about HTML, CSS and APIs in four stages:
- The first part introduces HTML basics by showing how to create the 'tweetable quote';
- The second part adds more details on tweeting links, hashtags and @names.
- The third part covers how to make a 'tweetable image';
- And finally, the fourth part shows you how to add a little design flair with CSS.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Introduction
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Stage 1: The tweetable quote
- Starting with HTML: opening and closing tags
- Customising the tweeted text: hackable URLs
- Changing your linked text to a ‘call to action’
- Adding a Twitter icon
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Stage 2: Adding links, hashtags and @names to a ‘tweet this’ window
- An introduction to APIs
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Stage 3: Adding an embedded image to a ‘Tweet this’ tweet
- Adding your image URL to the ‘tweet this’ link
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Stage 4: Styling your ‘Tweet this’ quotes with CSS
- HTML = content and meaning; CSS = style and design
- Three types of CSS
- CSS targets tags, attributes and values
- Inline styles using the style attribute
- Applying all this to your tweetable quote
- Taking things further: reverse-engineering someone else’s CSS
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