Week 1 WordPress, intro to HTML, CSS, JS | CCC

Contact

If you need any assistance or have questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to your class instructor Edward Wald via email: [email protected]

Monday

  1. Welcome & Introduction
  2. WordPress Basics using the Gutenberg Block System and the Blocksy Theme.

Homework: WordPress Assignment

Create your customized “Home” page including at least an image, bio, and links to social and modify global functions of your site including default fonts, colors, header, and footer in the Appearance-Customize menu.

Resources

For digging more into the blocksy Theme, this is a great in-depth pro tutorial that you can watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mn016w0rK It’s a little over 2 hours. It goes over some other elements, including menus, which we will discuss next session. 

Video from Session 1

Starts 9min in!

Wednesday

  1. Review of WordPress sites, discussion of navigation and menus. Add a page to your personal website that will be where you add all of your assignments.
  2. Discussion of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Assignment

Homework: Calculator Assignment

URL: Calculator Assignment

Boilerplate HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>[Browser Window Title]</title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

Resources

Setup a working account at https://www.w3schools.com/ When going through the Calculator assignment, make sure to check out all the resource links!

Video from Session 2