Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress

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A Note from the Author When I started my consulting business I anticipated a demand for basic web skills in the design community Graphic designers who’d been able to get by knowing just Photoshop Illustrator and InDesign would tell me that their clients started expecting them to know how to write HTML and CSS As companies started shifting over from proprietary content management systems to general CMSs like WordPress the need for designers to have basic tech knowledge grew Today designers must be able to create content both for print and for the Web and that means knowing HTML and CSS When seen against the media’s transition from print to Web perhaps this shouldn’t be shocking What surprised me however is how much interest in these skills has spread beyond the design and media communities If you’re as old as I am you might remember a time and place when office desks didn’t always have computers on them I remember visiting visiting my dad’s office at a community college while I was still in high school He was considered forward-thinking because he not only had a computer on his desk but he actually read his own email which was unheard of by certain college administrators We don’t live in that world anymore It didn’t take very long for the Internet desktop computers word processing typing skills and email to become standard tools for nearly every single job in existence Now not only designers but all sorts of professionals are required to produce content for the Web using basic HTML and CSS The Web is taking over but that doesn’t mean learning about it has to be a pain My hope is that this book will appeal to those people feeling left behind as well as those who want to get ahead We live in an ever-changing world where the skills you learn today aren’t guaranteed to carry you into the future To succeed in the jobs of the future you’ll have to learn not only what’s needed for the task at hand but also how to adapt and learn new skills Learning shouldn’t be a chore Once you figure out how to make learning a fun experience you’ll crave it Whether you’re a designer writer student or anyone else who’s new to website design I hope you find this comic funny and interesting but I also hope it inspires you to adopt the mantra learning is awesome Looking forward to the future Nate Cooper July 2014