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

  • 1h 43m
  • Kim Gee, Nate Cooper
  • No Starch Press
  • 2014

Build Your Own Website is a fun, illustrated introduction to the basics of creating a website. Join Kim and her little dog Tofu as she learns HTML, the language of web pages, and CSS, the language used to style web pages, from the Web Guru and Glinda, the Good Witch of CSS.

Once she figures out the basics, Kim travels to WordPress City to build her first website, with Wendy, the WordPress Maven, at her side. They take control of WordPress themes, install useful plugins, and more.

As you follow along, you’ll learn how to:

  • Use HTML tags
  • Make your site shine with CSS
  • Customize WordPress to fit your needs
  • Choose a company to host your site and get advice on picking a good domain name

The patient, step-by-step advice you’ll find in Build Your Own Website will help you get your website up and running in no time. Stop dreaming of your perfect website and start making it!

About the Authors

Nate Cooper is an Apple-Certified trainer who teaches people how to build websites. He regularly offers classes about web basics in New York City.

Kim Gee is an illustrator and graphic designer, currently living in New York City with her boyfriend and her pet dog, Tofu. In 2010 she created her eponymous web comic and has since self-published a graphic novel and mini-comic collecting her work.

In this Book

  • The First Day of Class
  • The Trouble with HTML
  • Kim Makes Things Look Great with CSS
  • Kim Explores WordPress City
  • Customizing WordPress
  • The Big Launch