Introduction to Basic HTML & CSS for WordPress Users

By: Alexander Oni

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eText | 25 August 2020 | Edition Number 1

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Get to grips with the basics of HTML and CSS, and make simple design changes to your WordPress website

Key Features

Get to grips with the basic structure of an HTML page
Understand the differences between inline and block elements
Gain basic knowledge of HTML and understand how it is used to develop a web page

Book Description

This Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) course takes you through the basics of HTML and CSS, teaching you about simple changes that can be made to your website such as changing the size of your text or the background color. The course begins with a brief overview of HTML, CSS, and web inspectors, and then delves into web page development and how to style content using HTML tags. You'll learn how to create child themes from your parent theme and find out how they generally work on WordPress websites. As you advance, you'll get to grips with the basic structure of CSS code and understand why CSS is such a powerful tool for designing websites. In addition to this, you'll explore classes and IDs along with the crucial rules of CSS specificity. Armed with basic knowledge of HTML and CSS, you'll learn to make design changes to a wide variety of WordPress themes. Finally, you'll cover different types of CSS properties and the basics of CSS animations. By the end of this course, you'll have gained knowledge of both HTML and CSS, and be able to confidently style WordPress websites. All the codes and supporting files for this course will be available at- https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Introduction-to-Basic-HTML-CSS-for-WordPress-Users

What you will learn

Make simple CSS changes to a WordPress website
Understand how HTML and CSS work to create a web page
Use web inspectors to identify the styling used in web pages
Find out how to write margin, border, and padding values
Get to grips with the important rules of CSS specificity

Who this book is for

This course is for students who want to learn the basics of HTML and CSS. WordPress users interested in learning how to make simple styling changes to their website will also find this course useful. No prior programming experience is required.