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CSS Zen Garden

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The Objective

Apply your own style to the CSS Zen Garden HTML file. Make the design aesthetic coherent and visually pleasing and validate the code in the W3C HTML & CSS Validator.

HTML & CSS Skills Acquired

  • How to add images and make images as the background

  • Editing text color, size, font, weight, decoration, etc.

  • Adding a background color to headers or other text

  • Editing the text color of links as well as changing colors after user visits the link.

  • Creating and editing a side bar filled with links

  • Add links to redirect to an external site

  • How to section headings, paragraphs, lists, and footer.

  • Add padding and margins to text

Before:

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After:

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First Website

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The Objective

 Build a web site to advertise and promote your app/website idea from the UX section, as if the app/website was actually created and ready to be marketed to the public. Validate the HTML & CSS with the WSC code validator. 

HTML & CSS Skills Acquired

  • Add a logo to website

  • Add and edit navigation text

  • Add in buttons and hyperlinks that will direct to a new link

  • Edit button color, background color, and padding

  • Image size and dimensions

  • Create a footer with table header cells 

  • Add a title, author, meta data, and external style sheet

  • Use section IDs to make cohesive

Before:

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After:

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All work © Katie Woolston unless otherwise noted. Attributions to the Noun Project and JMU Photo Library.
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