Build Your Own Website bookcover

Build Your Own Website

A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress

Nate Cooper 

(Author)

Kim Gee 

(Illustrated by)
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Description

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 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!

Product Details

PublisherNo Starch Press
Publish DateSeptember 02, 2014
Pages264
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781593275228
Dimensions9.3 X 7.0 X 0.7 inches | 1.1 pounds

About the Author

Nate Cooper is an Apple-Certified trainer who teaches people how to build websites. He regularly offers classes about web basics in New York City.
Kim Gee is an illustrator and graphic designer, currently living in New York City with her boyfriend and her pet dog, Tofu. In 2010 she created her eponymous web comic and has since self-published a graphic novel and mini-comic collecting her work.

Reviews

"The comic book format may be a perfect vehicle for teaching this sort of skill."
—Weekly Book Scan

"An excellent book."
—The Chartered Institute for IT

"Shows the essentials...in a fun and friendly comic strip environment."
—Berger's Book Reviews

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