Build Your Own Website with HTML/CSS 8.15

1. Build Your Own Website
August 2017
WIFI: Cross Camp.us Events
http://bit.ly/website-la
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2. Instructor
Elias Mason
Thinkful Mentor
TAs
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3. About you
What's your name?
What brought you here today?
What is your programming experience?
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4. About Thinkful
Thinkful helps people become developers or data scientists
through 1-on-1 mentorship and project-based learning
These workshops are built using this approach.These workshops are built using this approach.
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5. Suggestions for learning
Don't treat this as a drill, we're making something realwe're making something real
Don't get discouraged, struggle leads to masterystruggle leads to mastery
Don't be shy, take full advantage of our supporttake full advantage of our support
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6. This is what we're making
View example here
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7. Agenda
Learn key HTML and CSS concepts (30 min)
Go over starter code (10 min)
Build your site with our support! (30 min)
Steps to continue learning (10 min)
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8. HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
<h1 class="intro">Hi there!</h1>
AttributeOpening tag
h1 element
Closing tag
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Content
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9. HTML
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10. CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
h1 {
color: blue;
}
Value
Property
Selector
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11. CSS selectors, properties, values
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12. Margin, border, and padding
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13. Margin, border, and padding
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14. Real developers use Google... a lot
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15. Glitch setup & first steps!
http://bit.ly/build-website-starter
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16. Ways to keep learning
More Structure
Less Structure
More SupportLess Support
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17. 325+ mentors325+ mentors with an average of
10 years of experience10 years of experience in the
field
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18. Career prep and job-placement
Liz Stephanie
Our career services team has helped 93% of our grads
begin jobs at companies like:
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19. Take a Thinkful tour!
Talk to one of us to set something up !
Take a look through Thinkful's
student platform to see if
project-based, online learning
is a good fit for you 👀
While we're at it, give us
feedback on tonight's
workshop.
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