Learning HTML and CSS by making tweetable quotes
Last updated on 2015-02-11
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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