Does the HTML tab on your WordPress dashboard beckon to you, but the thought of tags, divs and stylesheets keeps you from clicking over? All good sites start with a good foundation — semantic and valid HTML and CSS. Once you have that foundation, you have all the power in the world to control the look of your site.
This workshop will look at the box model and the most commonly used HTML tags and how to use them to lay out your text without breaking your theme. We’ll also take a look at CSS — what it is and how to use it to style your content.
This talk is aimed for beginner coders who don’t know their <a> from their <span> class.
About Laurie M. Rauch
Laurie M. Rauch believes that great user experiences start at the first line of code. Laurie is the owner and chief code nerd of Code Diva, where she provides WordPress customizations and coaching, and specializes in developing sites for WordPress using standards-compliant HTML and CSS.
She is also part of the support team for Graph Paper Press, an associate designer for E.Webscapes, and has taught web page design at Seneca College.
In her free time Laurie is slowly redoing her house, blogs, tweets, and pins.
