Friendbook Exercise Guide
In this project, we'll create our very first HTML page; a profile of ourselves. In the end, we'll work our way up to something that looks like this target.
We'll start by getting the raw content into the page, and ignore styling for now. Our first target is something that looks like this target.
- 1.Create your own page called
[first name]-[last-initial].html(for example, I called mineraghu-b.html). - 2.Type in your own content:
- Your name
- Where you're from
- Some of your app ideas
- Some of your prior experience (jobs, education), and your LinkedIn URL
- A favorite nearby haunt (coffee shop or restaurant or pub)
Next, let's tag our content to let the browser know what each thing is. Useful HTML elements include:
- Headings:
<h1>,<h2>, ... ,<h6> - Paragraph:
<p> - Unordered list:
<ul> - Ordered list:
<ol> - List item:
<li> - Link:
<a href="http://www.addressofsomepage.com/whatever">
Let's add some images to the page:
After you download your images, name them similarly to what you called your HTML file:
[first name]-[last-initial]-profile.jpg[first name]-[last-initial]-cover.png[first name]-[last-initial]-1.png[first name]-[last-initial]-2.jpg[first name]-[last-initial]-3.png[first name]-[last-initial]-4.jpg
Then, add them into your document using the
img tag: /* An image located in the same folder as this document */
<img src="whatever.jpg">
/* An image located somewhere on the Internet */
<img src="http://somewhere.com/whatever.jpg">
Let's put your experience data into a table. In HTML, the
<table> element is used to represent two dimensional data. A simple table looks like this:First | Last |
John | Doe |
Jane | Doe |
which would produce this:
First | Last |
John | Doe |
Jane | Doe |
The things to keep in mind about tables are:
- Every piece of data must reside within a cell, a
<td>element (or maybe a<th>element if it's a heading). - Every
<td>or<th>element must reside within a row, a<tr>element. - Every
<tr>must have the same number of cells, or things get out of whack.
Despite this last rule, you can, however, "merge" cells using the
colspan attribute:People | |
John | Doe |
Jane | Doe |
produces:
People | |
John | Doe |
Jane | Doe |
You can see that we've merged two cells in the first row together; the
colspan="2" on the first cell ensures that we don't violate the "every <tr> must have the same number of cells" rule.- Add a Google Map of your favorite nearby haunt
Now that we have our content showing up, and we've added some basic structure with HTML, it's time to customize the styling of the page.
The basic syntax of CSS looks like this:
<h1 class="greeting">Hi there</h1>
<style>
.greeting {
font-size: 24px;
color: darkgrey;
}
</style>
The rest is just practice, and expanding our vocabulary of what CSS properties are available to us.
Below are some resources that might be helpful as we go along:
- Hero unit with cover image:.top-cover {background: url("cover.jpg") no-repeat center bottom;background-size: cover;height: 300px;}
- .some-thing {box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.12), 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.24);transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;}.some-thing:hover {box-shadow: 0 10px 20px rgba(0,0,0,0.19), 0 6px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.23);}
- An abbreviated list of other useful CSS properties and example values:/* Typography */color: orange;font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif;font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 0.4em;line-height: 1.86;text-align: center;text-decoration: none;text-transform: uppercase;/* Box Model */border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);border-style: solid;border-width: 5px;border: thick white solid;height: 200px;margin: auto;padding-bottom: 20px;padding-left: 20px;padding-right: 20px;padding: 20px;width: 100%;/* Table */border-spacing: 10px;vertical-align: top;/* Other */background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5)box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.12);list-style-type: square;
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