Course Notes

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Lecture 1: Course Overview
What We'll Be Building

Throughout this course we're going to learn HTML and CSS by building out the One Million Lines site. In the
process of making the site you will learn everything you need to know about HTML and CSS so that you can
create any site you want.
I think you are going to be surprised at how easy it is to build great looking sites fast and hopefully you have
flashes of feeling like you have a new super power.
Download Resources
● Sublime Text
● Google Chrome Browser
● Bootstrap
Lesson 3: Tips For Course

Use these suggestions to crush this course and be building awesome sites in no time.
1. Go all the way through the course the first time following along typing in the code yourself.
2. After the first time, then go to create your own site - any type of site it doesn't have to be the same
style and structure as the One Million Lines site - and use these videos, source codes, and other
learning materials provided in the lessons as guides
3. QUANTITY over quality. What I mean by that is to not worry about creating the perfect site, with the
perfect code and don't worry about messing up. Instead just focus on creating sites as fast as you
can. In the process of pumping out sites you'll find yourself doing the same actions such as adding
images or creating 3 columns as well as many others and they'll become second nature to you over
the time.
4. Practice in shorts bursts. I don't recommend you going through this course in its entirety in one
sitting. Instead spread out the learning over a couple days with hour long sessions to keep you
excited and wanting more. During those hours sessions create breaks and break up the 1-2 hours
into short bursts. Use e.ggtimer to set a timer and practice in 20 minute bursts with 5 minute breaks
afterwards.
5. I can't stress this enough, but repetition, repetition, repetition. Keep creating, keep building sites
and it will be second-nature in no time
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6. Code snippets will be included in lessons so you can easily copy and paste or type the code. If
you're ever having trouble getting the code to work or look the same in your browser as it does in
the lesson you can always find the zipped source code for that file at the bottom of each lessons
page. Click on the link to download, unzip the file, and you will have all the files as they should be at
the end of that video.
Lesson 4: Hello World
Let's dive into bootstrap and get your first site up.
1. Download Bootstrap here. Make sure to choose Download Bootstrap option.
2. Unzip the bootstrap folder and rename "dist" folder as "first-site" folder
NOTE: IF you are a PC user when you zip/extract the Bootstrap zip file it will take you to a folder titled
bootstrap-3.1.1-distor with a number similar to that - 3.1.1 is the Bootstrap version number. Take that
file and rename it first-site. Then copy the file and paste it on your desktop. Once you've done that
open the first-sitefolder in Sublime as directed in the next step.
3. Open Bootstrap in sublime

On a mac you can grab the first-site folder and drag it over Sublime app icon (if the Sublime app icon is in
your bottom app doc) to open. Otherwise open Sublime and click File at the top, then Open Folder or Open
if on Mac. Locate the first-site folder, highlight it and then click open.
4. Create and save an index file

Right click on the "first-site" folder and choose new file. Highlight the code below (or on Bootstrap site) and
insert it into the document. Save the file and name it "index.html".
5. Open the index.html file in google chrome to view your first ever web site!
Find your file (in finder for mac, in your folders for pc) and right click on it selecting "open with" > "Google
Chrome". Nerdy tidbit: Hello World is common practice among coders to do as their first program or output
in any new coding language. Welcome to our world!
Lesson 5: An HTML Document

Become familiar with the different types of tags throughout this course and how to open and close each.
Below is a one-pager for you to refer back to throughout the course. Also use learn.shayhowe.com and
W3Schools.com as references throughout the course.
Lesson 7: Let’s Bootstrap!

Bootstrap offers a handful of templates for you to jumpstart your site's creation process. We'll learn how to
grab any of these templates we want.
1. Go to Bootstrap's getting started section and grab the Jumbotron template at 0:35
After you click to open the Jumbotron template then right click on the page and select "view page source".
Copy the entire HTML document and replace all the code in your "index.html" file currently with the copied
code. Save the new index.html file.
2. Edit the CSS path so that it is correct

index.html
change
<link href="../../dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
to
<link href="css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
Link Notes
We're creating the link so that it is relative to the current file. In other words we're telling the browser how
to get to (or the path to) the correct CSS document from the index.html file. So "css/bootstrap.min.css" is
telling the browser to look for the "css" folder that is in the current folder - which is "first-site" - then go into
it and find the "bootstrap.min.css" file.
3. Include our own custom.css file

View page source on the jumbotron template page if you don't still have it open. Then click on the
jumbotron.css link. Copy all of the text in the document. Go to sublime and right click on the CSS folder.
Click on New File, paste all the text in the document and save it as"custom.css" in the CSS folder. Then
change the current "jumbotron.css" CSS link in our index.html file to our newly created "custom.css"file.
CONGRATS! You just created your first CSS file
Extra Lesson Notes

1. In this lesson we are linking to the CSS file via a relative path from the file we are currently in
(index.html). In a future lesson we'll discuss how to do absolute links like to http://www.google.com.
2. Comments in HTML documents (or any coding documents for that matter) are for the human eye
only. The code that indicates the beginning and the ending of a comment tells the browser just to
skip over that section and not worry about the code in there. Comments begin with "". For example: 
3. You’ve also seen CSS comments in this video. Check out the first line of your custom.css file where
it says: /* Move down content because we have a fixed... */. Comments in CSS start with
“/*” and end with “*/”.
4. Make sure to include the custom.css file lower in our "index.html" file. This way the browser reads
the custom.css file second after bootstrap's CSS file. Doing it this way makes sure that the CSS
rules we include in our "custom.css" file will take precedence over the same ones in bootstraps's
"bootstrap.min.css" file. Don't worry if you don't understand this right now. You will see it in action
soon and it will soon become second-nature.
5. Bonus** You don’t need to know this, but is an interesting tidbit. A “min” file is a minimized version
of a file. So instead of linking to a .css file in this lesson we are linking to a .min.css file. Browsers
have to read the entire CSS file to interpret it. What a minimized version of a file does is take out all
the unnecessary spaces and line breaks so that the browser can read the file faster and thus your
site loads faster. Every extra line and space in a document makes it longer to for the browser to
interpret it. Minimized files eliminate these unnecessary wastes.
Lesson 8: Editing the Navbar
In this lesson we'll explore how to combine templates, use Chrome's dev tools, and utilize Bootstrap's
native components to start putting together the site fast.
1. Grab the Bootstrap's Starter Template navbar

Copy the navbar div (as seen in video) of the Starter Template and replace the current navbar div in our
"index.html" with it.
index.html
change
<div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top" role="navigation">

<div class="container">
<div class="navbar-header">
<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse"
data-target=".navbar-collapse">
<span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</button>
<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Project name</a>
</div>
<div class="navbar-collapse collapse">
<form class="navbar-form navbar-right" role="form">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" placeholder="Email" class="form-control">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<input type="password" placeholder="Password" class="form-control">
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">Sign in</button>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
to
<div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top" role="navigation">

<div class="navbar-header">
<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse"
data-target=".navbar-collapse">
<span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
</button>
</div>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li class="active"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#about">About</a></li>
<li><a href="#contact">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
2. Change the navbar-brand to be One Million Lines

index.html
change
to
<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">One Million Lines</a>
3. Move the links in the Navbar to the right

In the bootstrap components we find that there is a "navbar-right" class to do just that. Add the
"navbar-right" class to our "ul" element.
index.html
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
4. Change the links in the navbar

index.html
change

<li class="active"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#about">About</a></li>
<li><a href="#contact">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
to

<li class=”active”><a href="#about">WHO WE ARE</a></li>
<li><a href="#contact">GET INVOLVED</a></li>
</ul>
NOTE: We'll worry about the href in the above code later in the course
Extra Lesson Notes

1. Child and parent elements. An HTML document’s structure can be looked like a family tree. Each
element has a parent element. An element can have a child (or children) element if it contains other
HTML elements. Indentation within a document does not determine whether an element is a child or
a parent element. Instead the indentation just keeps the document organized so we can see it easier
visually. In the example below the div with class navbar is the parent element of the div with class of
container. The ul is a child element of the div with class collapse and navbar-collapse. At the same
time the ul is the parent element of the two li HTML elements
2. The Inspect Element feature of Google Chrome is an awesome tool to experiment and use as your
sandbox to try new things and learn about how changes in CSS and HTML will look live on your site.
You’ll become much more familiar with this tool throughout the course.
Lesson 9: What the Div?!
Divs are all over HTML documents. Understand divs and you'll be like an HTML magician. Feel the power!
Lesson Notes
● A div defines a division or section in an HTML document

● A div is used to group block elements so that you can format them with CSS. Their main benefits are
organization and for styling purposes. As you can see in the image above of the difference between
an unordered list with and without CSS
● The class .container keeps all of our site content lined up within a certain width
● Divs are also block elements, which means that there is a line-break before and after the element by
default. You can change this through CSS as Bootstrap did for us in the Navbar.
● Unordered lists - <ul>- create bulleted lists, ordered lists - <ol>- create numbered lists. Use <li>
for each list item in both types of lists. Learning to style these lists as Bootstrap does for us will be
for a future lesson. <ul>, <ol>, and <li>are all block elements as you can see when we took away
the CSS.
● Block elements start and end with a line-break. Inline elements are displayed without starting a new
line - an example we’ve seen so far is the <a> tag. This is why you can have the <li>and <a>tags
together in the code and they’re on the same line. Also in the example you see the button and the
link are on the same line when CSS is not present. This is because they are both inline elements.
Lesson 10: Your First CSS Rule
CSS controls the style of your site. Make your first CSS rule and start transforming the site from boring text
to sexy startup quality.
1. Update the h1 tag

index.html
change
<h1>Hello, world!</h1>
to
<h1>Our goal is to inspire <br>Tallahassee to write 1,000,000<br> lines of code_</h1>
NOTE: <br>is a line break in HTML. Notice on the web page that after each <br>the text goes to a new
line
2. Update the paragraph

index.html
change
<p>This is a template for a simple marketing or informational website. It includes a

large callout called a jumbotron and three supporting pieces of content. Use it as a
starting point to create something more unique.</p>
to
<p>All over the country people are taking the <strong>HOUR OF CODE</strong> challenge
issued by <strong>CODE.org</strong>. Millions of lines of code are being written. In
the capital of Florida, Tallahassee, the community is taking the challenge and our goal
is to write 1,000,000 lines of code_</p>
NOTE: <strong>boldens the text that the opening and closing strong tags wrap.
3. Center all the text in the div with a class of "jumbotron"

css/custom.css
.jumbotron {
text-align: center;
}
NOTE: The above code translates to "for any div with a class 'jumbotron' align all text in the center." This is
your first CSS rule. Make sure you follow the syntax exactly.
About the inspect element feature: When you have the proper HTML element selected you can type CSS
declarations for that HTML element on the right in the element.style section. For example, in this part of the
video I have selected the div with a class of jumbotron so whatever CSS declarations I put in the
element.style section will apply to that div only. To reset the style just reload the page. This feature is your
sandbox to have fun!
4. Make the button red and change its text

Here we take advantage of Bootstrap's prewritten CSS classes for buttons
index.html
change
<a class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" role="button">Learn more »</a>
to
<a class="btn btn-danger btn-lg" role="button">Get Involved</a>
Lesson Notes
● In addition to <br>and <strong>an opening and closing <em>tag makes the text it surrounds
display in italics.
● Giving an HTML element a class is just a naming convention so that we can know what to refer to it
as and assign it a style in CSS. There is also an id naming convention which we will cover later
including when to use which one (id or class).
● You denote a class in CSS by putting a period in front of the class name. For the example, in the
video we defined styling for the jumbotron class in our CSS document by typing .jumbotron
● Look at the image below to learn more about CSS syntax and the different parts of a rule
Lesson 11: More CSS Fun
Lets take a quick moment to learn more about CSS
1. Make the button bigger

Here we take advantage of Bootstrap's prewritten CSS classes for buttons
css/custom.css
.btn-lg {
font-size: 36px;
}
NOTE: After you change this above, inspect the button as I did in the video. Notice on the right how there is
a .btn-lgCSS rule from the "jumbotron.min.css" document that makes a declaration font-size: 18px.
Also notice how that declaration is crossed out and the CSS rule you made in "custom.css" is above it and
the declaration .btn-lg { font-size: 36px; }is not crossed out. This is because we included the
custom.css file lower in our HTML document than the bootstrap.min.css file. So now when any
declarations or rules conflict between Bootstrap’s and our custom.css file the one in our custom.css file
takes priority.
Lesson Notes
● 3 ways to include CSS
○ External - how we’ve been doing with custom.css
○ Internal - in the header as shown in the video
○ Inline - using the style attribute within the element’s opening tag
● External and internal style sheets have the same priority (assuming the rules have the exact same
HTML selectors) so whichever is read last (in other words included in the head section further down
in the document) will be the CSS rule that takes place. This is why we are able to overwrite
Bootstrap’s CSS with our own custom.css - because we include the custom.css lower in the HTML
document.
● So the above bullet as to do with the cascading part of CSS. Now let’s talk about specificity. If there
are two competing style rules for an element the CSS rule that had the more specific selectors will
take priority. In other words if one rule says all text in a div with a class of jumbotron should be red,
but then there is another rule that says all text of any p that is in a div with a class of jumbotron
should be blue. Which color will the p text be? Well which is more specific? In the first rule it
applies to any HTML element in a div with that class, but in the second rule it is limiting it only p’s in
a div with that class. Thus the second rule is more specific so the p text will be blue and other html
elements their text will be red.
● Inline styling is the most specific styling and will take highest priority so that the inline style rule will
occur. This is because when you style an individual HTML element you can’t get more specific than
that because you a declaring a CSS rule for that HTML element alone and no other.
● Use External Stylesheets so that you can make small CSS changes across your site quickly
● In this lesson we made a CSS rule with the font-size property. You can learn more about the
font-size property and other CSS font properties here. I like to use pixels when I refer to font-size
because it gives the browser an exact size, but some developers use em or % which are relative
measurements.
Lesson 12: Get Your Font On
If you've ever heard of Steve Jobs you know that fonts are critical in the design of a product. Let's learn to
put any font you want into your website.
1. Find and include the Arvo font

You can find the Arvo font at the Google Fonts page here.
index.html
include
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Arvo' rel='stylesheet'

type='text/css'>
2. Make CSS rule for ul.nav and .jumbotron h1 to have Arvo font
css/custom.css
ul.nav, .jumbotron h1 {
font-family: ‘Arvo’, courier, serif;
}
This will change the font-family of an ul with a class of nav and any h1 in a div with the class "jumbotron".
NOTE: You could include multiple font-family names after Arvo for fallbacks (as we did here) in case Arvo
doesn't load correctly from Google. Learn more about how to do that here.
Lesson Notes
● So we’ve seen 2 new types of selectors in CSS in this lesson. Last lesson we did .jumbotronto
define styling in any HTML element with a class of jumbotron.
○ However in this less we used .jumbotron h1to style only h1 tags in our div with the
jumbotron class. So this is saying any HTML element with a class of jumbotron that has an
h1 within it (another way to say would be that has an h1 child element) style those h1’s this
way.
○ Then we also used ul.navin this lesson. This says any ul that has a class of nav style it this
way. So you may be asking the question well we didn’t put div before .jumbotron. We could
have. So we could have said div.jumbotronand it would be referring to only divs with a
class of jumbotron, but since in our HTML we have only given a class of jumbotron to divs
and we haven’t given any uls or any other type of HTML element the class of jumbotron then
it doesn’t matter.
○ So notice the difference in the two naming conventions of the above examples with the
selectors. A selector with a class and then an HTML tag (ex. .jumbotron h1) refers to the
styling of the h1 child elements of divs (or any HTML element for that matter since div wasn’t
specified) with a class of jumbotron. In contrast to an HTML tag followed with a class in a
selector refers to only HTML elements that are the tag mentioned and has the class
mentioned, for example p.leadrefers only to paragraphs with a class of lead (the HTML
would look like this <p class=”lead”>content</p>).
● Also we’ve seen in this video that you can combine multiple selectors in one CSS rule. To do this all
you have to do is separate the additional selectors with a comma and a space - for example:
ul.nav, .jumbotron h1 { CSS rule content here }.
Lesson 14: The Box Model
Every html element is a rectangular box. Understand this along with what margin, padding, and border and
you’re on your way to being a website ninja
1. Change the list items <li>in the unordered list <ul>to be smaller
css/custom.css
ul.nav {
font-size: 13px;
}
2. Include correct margin for the .jumbotron <h1>and <p>

css/custom.css
.jumbotron h1 {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 50px;
}
.jumbotron p {
}
Lesson Notes
● Every HTML element is in the shape of a box and has the box model applied to it. Inspect elements
on the page and highlight various HTML elements in order to see this in action.
● When inspecting HTML elements in Google Chrome blue is the HTML element itself, green is
padding, and orange is the margin.
● The HTML element and the padding is within the border. Margin is outside the border. Use padding
if you want to add spacing within the border; in other words if you want to expand the background
color of that particular element. Use margin if you want to add spacing outside of the border. With
margin the spacing will have the same background as that particular elements parent HTML
element.
● You can visualize what an element's parent is by indentation in the inspect element area. In our
video example the <body>element is the parent of the <div class="jumbotron">element. See
how the <div class="jumbotron>is indented one tab in and under the<body>element. Then when
you click on the arrow to the left of the <div class="jumbotron>to open it you'll see<div
class="container>appear which is the child element of the <div class="jumbotron>element.
● There are multiple ways to declare the padding and margin for an HTML element. We went over
them in the video and you can use the image below to as a reference.
Lesson 15: Bringing In The Images
Lets go through how to add images to your site so that it really pops, both through HTML and CSS. And
now we'll be done with the top section. Pat yo' self on the back!
1. Include the Code.org image

You can find the images in the lesson description/download tab to the right. Download the images. Then
create a new folder within your "first-site" folder titled "images". Save the images in that folder.
index.html
include
<img src="images/code.png" title="Code.org logo" alt="Code.org">
on the line after the button
The altattribute is what will show if the image loads incorrectly and the titleattribute is what will show if
you hover over the image long enough with your mouse. These are optional, but can help your site's
accessibility say if the image doesn't load correctly or if someone who is visually impaired comes to your
site - the screen reader will read what image should be there since they can't see it. Every HTML element
has a set of HTML attributes that go along with it. You can always find them for each element at
w3schools.com.
2. Insert background image

You can get image in the download/lesson description tab. Save it as hero_image.jpg.
css/custom.css
.jumbotron {
text-align: center;
background-image: url(“../images/hero_image.jpg”);
}
● We were introduced to links earlier. The only thing new we're adding here is ../which tells the
browser to exit the current folder. In other words, we're in the custom.css file so we're in the CSS
folder. We tell the browser to exit the CSS folder so then its in the first-site folder. From there we tell
it to find the images folder images. To enter the images folder /and then to find the
hero_image.jpg image.
● In this lesson we've use the background image. There are also other background properties you can
learn about here.
3. Change font color

css/custom.css
.jumbotron {
text-align: center;
background-image: url("../images/hero_image.jpg");
color: white;
}
3. Correct font weight, font size and spacing (padding and margin)
css/custom.css
.jumbotron h1 {
margin-top: 0px;
}
.jumbotron p {
font-weight: 100;
padding: 0 50px;
}
4. Add One Million Lines image

You can get image in the download/lesson description tab. Save it as top_logo.png in the images folder.
index.html
change
<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">One Million Lines</a>
to
<a class="navbar-brand" href="#"><img src="images/top_logo.png" alt="One Million

Lines"></a>
Use the image below as a reference when creating new image tags.
Lesson 16: The Grid System
Lets go into bootstrap's grid system so you can learn to make the site look exactly however you want it.
With the added understanding of floats you can build any complex-looking site.
Lesson Notes
● In .col-md-4the number represents the width, more specifically how many columns wide of the
12-column layout. In other words that div will be 4 columns wide. Since it is out of 12 it will be 1/3 of
the page’s width. Look at the image below for a quick cheat sheet on the grid system and div
widths.
● Rules
○ Rows are placed w/in a container div
○ Only columns may be immediate children of rows
Lesson 17: Linking It Up
Use links to control the flow of users from and through your site. In this lesson we cover the different types
of links
1. Update content
index.html
change
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4">
<h2>Heading</h2>
<p>Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Fusce dapibus, tellus ac
cursus commodo, tortor mauris condimentum nibh, ut fermentum massa justo sit amet
risus. Etiam porta sem malesuada magna mollis euismod. Donec sed odio dui. </p>
<p><a class="btn btn-default" href="#" role="button">View details »</a></p>
</div>
<h2>Heading</h2>
<p>Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Fusce dapibus, tellus ac
cursus commodo, tortor mauris condimentum nibh, ut fermentum massa justo sit amet
risus. Etiam porta sem malesuada magna mollis euismod. Donec sed odio dui. </p>
</div>
<h2>Heading</h2>
<p>Donec sed odio dui. Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam.
Vestibulum id ligula porta felis euismod semper. Fusce dapibus, tellus ac cursus
commodo, tortor mauris condimentum nibh, ut fermentum massa justo sit amet risus.</p>
</div>
</div>
to
<div class="row">
<h2>Students</h2>
<p>Want to learn how to code? Want to help us get to 1,000,000 lines? Click the
button below and we'll let you know how to get involved.</p>
<p><a class="btn btn-default" href="#" role="button">Start Learning »</a></p>
</div>
<h2>Educators</h2>
<p>Want to bring this initiative to your school or institution? Awesome! Click
the button below and we'll make it happen.</p>
<p><a class="btn btn-default" href="#" role="button">Join The Iniative
»</a></p>
</div>
<h2>Sponsors</h2>
<p>We love all the support we get to help host more events, and empower more lives
with the knowledge of coding. Click to get involved.</p>
<p><a class="btn btn-default" href="#" role="button">Give Support »</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<a> Notes
● Use the hrefattribute to determine the URL (aka the address) of what page or website the browser
will go to when the user clicks on a link
● Absolute link/URL: Starting a href with http://will direct the user to the exact site destination
specified afterwards. In other words I used http://google.comas an example in the lesson. Users
will be directed to google.com when they click on that link.
● Relative link/URL: Take away http://and you can link to other pages within your site. The
destination page is relative from the current page the link is in and you declare the path the same
way we did earlier with images. In other words if you are currently in the index.htmlfile and you
want to create and link to another page in the "first-site" folder titled grid.htmlyou would do
href="grid.html". If the grid.html page was in a folder called "about" you would do
href="about/grid.html".
● Use target="_blank"to open link in a new tab.
● Added Bonus: you can use href="mailto:[email protected]"so that if
someone clicks they will be set up to email you.
● You can also see more special HTML character symbols here.
Lesson 18: BONUS: Google Forms
Learn how to bring in Google Forms. An awesome, free tool to get feedback from you site users and put a sense of
interactivity in your site
NOTE: You can also embed the form into your site so that you can style it to look like your site. We will cover this
when we discuss embedding iframes into your site.
Lesson 19: Font Awesome Is Awesome
Font-awesome allows you to include professional quality icons in your site free and easy to give it that
extra pop.
1. Download Font-awesome here. Click download.
2. Unzip the font-awesome.zip and rename the resulting unzipped folder as "font-awesome".
3. Take the font-awesome folder and drag or paste it into the fonts folder within your first-site folder
On a mac you can grab the font-awesome folder and drag it into the "first-site/fonts" folder as in video.
With PCs you may have to highlight the font-awesome folder and copy it. Then find the "fonts" folder (wihin
your "first-site" folder), highlight it, and then click paste and the font-awesome folder should now be within
the fonts folder.
4. Include font-awesome in your index.html file
index.html
add
<link rel="stylesheet" href="fonts/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css">
5. Put an icon in your index.html file to see if we included font-awesome correctly
index.html
add
<i class="fa fa-camera-retro"></i>
above <h2>Students</h2>
NOTE: If you have any trouble including it correctly check the source files to see how to include it correctly.
6. Once you have font-awesome included correctly put in correct icons
index.html
change
<div class="row">
<h2>Students</h2>
</div>
<h2>Educators</h2>
»</a></p>
</div>
<h2>Sponsors</h2>
</div>
</div>
to
<div class="row">
<span class="fa-stack fa-4x">
<i class="fa fa-circle fa-stack-2x"></i>

<i class="fa fa-user fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i>
</span>
<h2>Students</h2>
</div>
<i class="fa fa-pencil fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i>
</span>
<h2>Educators</h2>
»</a></p>
</div>
<i class="fa fa-money fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i>
</span>
<h2>Sponsors</h2>
</div>
</div>
Lesson 20: Playing With Spans
Spans let you style inline-elements. Use it if you want to make certain words, phrases, or other inline
elements stand out with a different color or style.
In this example we used span to change the font color and size, but you could use it to do a variety of other
things with the font. Go ahead and play around with different font and text properties, combine them, and
see what they do. You can find a list of different font properties here.
Lesson 21: Styling The Get Involved Section

Through working on the get-involved section we learn and revisit many text-based CSS properties as well
as see how to give the same CSS rule to multiple different HTML elements.
1. Update Get Involved section's HTML content and give it a class

index.html
and change

<div class="row">
</span>
<h2>Students</h2>
</div>
</span>
<h2>Educators</h2>
<p><a class="btn btn-default" href="#" role="button">Join The Iniative »</a></p>
</div>
</span>
<h2>Sponsors</h2>
<p>We love all the support we get to help host more events, and empower more
lives with the knowledge of coding. Click to get involved.</p>
</div>
</div>
<hr>
<footer>
<p>© Company 2014</p>
</footer>
</div> 
to
<div class="container homepage">

<h2>Get Involved</h2>

<div class="row">
</span>
<h3>Students</h3>
</div>
</span>
<h3>Educators</h3>
<p><a class="btn btn-default" href="#" role="button">Join The Iniative »</a></p>
</div>
</span>
<h3>Sponsors</h3>
<p>We love all the support we get to help host more events, and empower more
lives with the knowledge of coding. Click to get involved.</p>
</div>
</div>
<hr>
<footer>
<p>© Company 2014</p>
</footer>
</div> 
2. Center align the font and style the h2 and h3 tags in the Get Involved section classes
css/custom.css
add
.homepage {
text-align: center;
}
.homepage h2, .homepage h3 {

font-family: ‘Arvo’, courier, serif;
color: #e74c3c;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.homepage h2 {
font-size: 30px;
}
.homepage h3 {
font-size: 26px;
}
.homepage p {
font-size: 21px;
font-weight: 300;
}
.homepage a {
color: #e74c3c;
}
Lesson Notes
● You can give HTML elements multiple classes by separating them with a space as we did in this
video <div class="container homepage">. This div has 2 classes: homepage and container.
● Let’s talk about colors. The color of your site is very important to the styling and feeling a user gets
when visiting. In the past lessons I have been using word values for color; I do not recommend
this for final product sites. The pre-assigned color words are harsh on user’s eyes. Instead I
recommend using hexadecimal values as in this video. Hexadecimal values give you millions of
different color options with all types of shading. You can find different color schemes all over the
internet and you can even grab different colors from sites you love now that you know how to use
the inspect element feature. One of my favorite sites to grab colors from is flatuicolors.com. Go to
the site, click on the color you want to use, and that color’s hexadecimal value will be copied for you
to paste into your code.
Lesson 22: Centering Block Elements
Let’s have some fun learning how to center block elements
1. Include the hr
index.html
add
<hr>
underneath <h2>Get Involved</p>
css/custom.css
add
.homepage hr {
border-top: 1px solid #e74c3c;
width: 150px;
margin-top: 15px;
}
Lesson Notes
● If you want to center a block element in the middle of its parent element make sure to give it a left
and right margin value of auto for example margin: 10px auto. In this case that HTML element
would have a top and bottom margin of 10 pixels and would be centered.
● Also in this lesson you saw two different types of values for width: % and px. Percentage (&) is
relative to the parent element, in the case shown in the video the <hr> % width was relative to the
container div. That is why it became smaller as decreased the width of the page’s viewing area. A
pixel width is absolute and stays the same length without regard of the page’s viewing area or the
parent element. As stated with font-size which value to use changes per the occasion and the
intended result. If you are trying to style a div and you know you want that div to be half the size of
that div’s container div then give it a width of 50%. If you are styling a line like we are here and we
want it to be an exact width then use pixels.
Lesson 23: Seeing The Benefits Of Using Classes

In this lesson you’ll see the power of assigning classes to elements when you want multiple elements to
have a similar style. It’s a beautiful thing!
1. Put in Who We Are section

index.html
<div class="container homepage">
<h2>Who We Are</h2>
<hr>
<p>We are <a href="http://www.massiveacademy.us" target="_blank">MASSIVE Academy</a>.
We aim to improve education through both method - effective project-based learning -
and material - by teaching skills that are applicable to improving your life today.</p>
</div>
2. Put in image
You can grab image from the lesson’s download tab.
index.html
<img src="images/academy_brand_med.png" title="MASSIVE Academy" alt="MASSIVE Academy">
Lesson 24: Hello Hover
We’re rockin’ and rollin’ now as we style links for when users hover over them and get an introduction to
pseudo-classes.
1. Put in styling for links when a user hovers over them

css/custom.css
add
.homepage a:hover {
color: #e74c3c;
text-decoration: none;
opacity: .8;
}
Lesson Notes
● The opacity property is the transparency of the HTML element. Its on scale from 0 to 1 with zero
being completely transparent to 1 being not transparent at all. A value of .8 would be about 20%
transparent. I like to use opacity with links when they’re hovered to show a slight change in color as
shown in the video - neat little trick.
● Bonus: This wasn’t covered in the video, but you can combine opacity and color by giving an html
element an rgba value. So you can convert hexadecimal values to rgb values here. By doing this our
hexadecimal salmon color (color: #e74c3c;) can also be styled in CSS with the following code
color: rgb(247, 76, 60);. Then to give it the slight change in color with the opacity when
someone hovers you could use the following CSS code color: rgba(247, 76, 60, .8);. Some
people like to use the rgba value as a background-color. Say for example you wanted your header
to be slightly transparent for an effect you could use rgba.
Lesson 25: Beautification Through Background Colors
Lets learn how to style full-width background colors in order to give our some subtle design beauty
1. Change the background color

index.html
Wrap the div <div class="container homepage">with another div <div id="get-involved">. Also
move the closing tag for<div class="container homepage">so that it doesn't wrap the <hr>and
<footer>. Don't forget to indent all the lines in between the opening and closing tags of <div
class="container homepage">.
css/custom.css
add
#get-involved {
background-color: #f5f5f5;
}
2. Put in some padding to make the two sections look good

css/custom.css
add
.homepage {
text-align: center;
padding-bottom: 50px;
padding-top: 40px
}
Lesson Notes
● Notice the naming convention for id versus class. Where we have been identifying classes by
putting a .before the class name, to identify an id we put a #before the id name. Ex:
#get-involved.
● There will also be an added benefit to using the idtag later when we create links to certain parts of
our page from the navbar.
Lesson 26: IDs Versus Classes
In this lesson we’ll learn about the benefits of IDs and when to use them versus classes
1. Link to the get-involved div

index.html
change
<li><a href="#">GET INVOLVED</a></li>
to
<li><a href="#get-involved">GET INVOLVED</a></li>
2. Wrap the WHO WE ARE section with a div with an id of who

index.html
Wrap the div <div class="container homepage">(of the WHO WE ARE section) with another div <div
id="who">. Don't forget to indent all the lines in between the opening and closing tags of <div
class="container homepage">.
3. Link to the get-involved div

index.html
change
<li><a href="#">WHO WE ARE</a></li>
to
<li><a href="#who">WHO WE ARE</a></li>
Lesson Notes
● When to use an ID vs a class? Use an ID when it is a unique element that will have its own type of
styling that no other element on your site will have or you can use ID to name an element that you
want to link to take a user to that section when a certain link is clicked. Use class when you have
multiple HTML elements that you want to style in a similar manner.
● IDs are more specific than classes so they will take priority. In other words if we wanted the h2 in
the get-involved section to have a different color than the h2 color we specified by coding
.homepage h2 { color: #ef4c3c; } we could have put in the rule #get-involved h2 {
color: black; }. In this case the h2 in the who we are section would still be that specified by the
homepage class, but the h2 in the get-involved section would be black since IDs are more specific
than classes. This is exactly like what we did with the “educator” ID example in the video.
Lesson 27: Finish Off With The Footer
A quick styling of the footer section and you have yourself your first website. Do a dance!
1. Put image in Footer section

You can grab image from this lesson’s downloads tab.
index.html
<footer>
<p><img src="images/one_million_bottom_brand.png" alt="One Community_ One Million
Lines_"></p>
</div>
</footer>
Also delete the <hr>above the footer section.
2. Style the footer section correctly

css/custom.css
footer {
background-color: #e74c3c;
padding-top: 150px;
}
also change CSS for the body
body {
padding-top: 50px;
}
Lesson 28: Making Your Site Look Good Across All Devices
We'll make the site look good across all devices with some responsive design and your bonus intro to the
awesome world of Javascript.
1. Make yo' site responsive

css/custom.css
/* Responsive Styling */
@media (max-width: 1199px) {
.jumbotron h1 {
font-size: 56px;
padding: 30px;
}

.jumbotron h1 {
font-size: 44px;
}
.jumbotron p {
padding: 0 10px;
}
#get-involved .col-md-4 {
padding-top: 20px;
}
.jumbotron h1 {
font-size: 24px;
}
.jumbotron p {
font-size: 16px;
padding: 0;
}
.btn-lg {
font-size: 18px;
}
.homepage p {
font-size: 18px;
}
footer img {
width: 80%;
}
2. Correct the link to Bootstrap’s built in Javascript document

index.html
change
<script src=”../../dist/js/bootstrap.min.js”></script>
to
<script src=”js/bootstrap.min.js”></script>
3. Change our page’s title

index.html
change
<title>Jumbotron Template For Bootstrap</title>
to
<title>One Million Lines</title>
Lesson Notes
● In this lesson we fix the link to Bootstrap’s Javascript. Javascript allows us to add functionality to
our site. You can see this in the video once we correct the link to the .min.js file as the button now
works - when clicked you see the drop-down menu appear. Pretty awesome right?! Through
javascript we can make our sites do some extremely cool things and build in functionality our users
will love. We’ll talk more about javascript and its capabilities in future lessons.
Lesson 29: Getting Your Site Live Online With Dropbox
Lets get yo' site live and online with Dropbox for the world to see.
You can get dropbox here.
1. Make Google Font load over a secure server

index.html
change
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Arvo' rel='stylesheet'

type='text/css'>
to
<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Arvo' rel='stylesheet'

type='text/css'>
Lesson Notes
● Dropbox is a good service to use if you are working on a site and want to have it live from the
beginning for people to see - say if you have a client you are building a site for. Just transfer your
site's folder into the public Dropbox folder when you start building the site and everytime you make
changes in Sublime or any other text editor the changes will be shown live on the web for anyone to
see.
● Push: putting the site live online for people to access.
Lesson 30: What’s Next

Congratulations on completing the course!
At this point you’ve come a long way in a short amount, possibly with no knowledge of HTML and CSS to
now knowing the building blocks of HTML and CSS, knowing how to put sites up and even having your
own site up.
So where do you go from here? Well, although you’ve made great strides there is still a healthy amount of
HTML and CSS for you to learn till you’re a true website building pro.
We cover all of this in my second course “Learn to Build Beautiful Websites with HTML5 and CSS3 in 1
Month”. In this course you will take the step to being a website building pro and not only able to build
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And since you are a repeating student I want to thank you and give you a chance to enter the course at
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Lecture 1: Course Overview

What We'll Be Building

Lesson 3: Tips For Course

Lesson 4: Hello World

1. Download Bootstrap here. Make sure to choose Download Bootstrap option.

3. Open Bootstrap in sublime

4. Create and save an index file

Lesson 5: An HTML Document

Lesson 7: Let’s Bootstrap!

2. Edit the CSS path so that it is correct

<link href="../../dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

<link href="css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

3. Include our own custom.css file

CONGRATS! You just created your first CSS file

Extra Lesson Notes

Lesson 8: Editing the Navbar

1. Grab the Bootstrap's Starter Template navbar

<div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top" role="navigation">

<div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top" role="navigation">

2. Change the navbar-brand to be One Million Lines

<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Project name</a>

<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">One Million Lines</a>

3. Move the links in the Navbar to the right

4. Change the links in the navbar

<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">

<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">

Extra Lesson Notes

Lesson 9: What the Div?!

● A div defines a division or section in an HTML document

Lesson 10: Your First CSS Rule

1. Update the h1 tag

<h1>Our goal is to inspire <br>Tallahassee to write 1,000,000<br> lines of code_</h1>

2. Update the paragraph

<p>This is a template for a simple marketing or informational website. It includes a

3. Center all the text in the div with a class of "jumbotron"

4. Make the button red and change its text

<a class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" role="button">Learn more »</a>

<a class="btn btn-danger btn-lg" role="button">Get Involved</a>

Lesson 11: More CSS Fun

Lets take a quick moment to learn more about CSS

1. Make the button bigger

Lesson 12: Get Your Font On

1. Find and include the Arvo font

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Arvo' rel='stylesheet'

Lesson 14: The Box Model

2. Include correct margin for the .jumbotron <h1>and <p>

Lesson 15: Bringing In The Images

1. Include the Code.org image

<img src="images/code.png" title="Code.org logo" alt="Code.org">

on the line after the button

2. Insert background image

3. Change font color

4. Add One Million Lines image

<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">One Million Lines</a>

<a class="navbar-brand" href="#"><img src="images/top_logo.png" alt="One Million

Lesson 16: The Grid System

Lesson 17: Linking It Up