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Build a Digital Postcard with HTML/CSS

Difficulty

  • easy

Average duration

4 hrs

Solution code

Technologies

  • Layouts

  • HTML and CSS

Difficulty

  • easy

Average duration

4 hrs

Solution code

Technologies

🌱 How to start this project?

Who doesn't like postcards? This is one of your first exercises (if not the first), and it's fun and relatively easy :)

Let's create a postcard with HTML5 and CSS3, and then you can share it with your mom or your other half; they will be proud! :)

🌱 How to start this project?

  1. Make sure you have a Github account at: https://github.com
  2. We recommend opening this repository using a provisioning tool like Codespaces (recommended) or Gitpod. Alternatively, you can clone it on your local computer using the git clone command.

This is the repository you need to open or clone:

1https://github.com/breatheco-de/exercise-postcard

👉 Please follow these steps on how to start a coding project. IMPORTANT --> this repo isn't a template.

  1. The exercises will start and show the instructions automatically, but if you encounter any issues, you can try running them manually by typing in your command line the following:
1$ learnpack start

Instructions

Create the HTML and CSS3 needed to replicate this exact same picture.

postcard preview

✋ Here is the url for the 4Geeks logo: https://storage.googleapis.com/breathecode-asset-images/5318bde604cf5c915f94897a71b49ab2523101322ea21cb046db1e67c24fa3be.png?raw=true

Create by drawing your strategy

Postcard Strategy

You can add different fonts by using free Google Fonts

  1. Click on the font you like.

  2. Click get font.

  3. Click on Embed code.

What to do if you are stuck?

There is a video about this exercise, watch it if you are lost. But don't copy everything, try to code some of your own.

Fundamentals

This exercise covers the following fundamentals:

  1. Basic structure for every HTML5 website.
  2. The Link tag to import CSS3 Rules.
  3. Using google fonts.
  4. Using the different selectors available in CSS3.
  5. Working with containers or boxes: border, padding, and margins.
  6. Overflow.
  7. Using a simple form.

This and many other exercises are built by students as part of the 4Geeks Academy Coding Bootcamp by Alejandro Sánchez and many other contributors. Find out more about our Full Stack Developer Course, and Data Science Bootcamp.

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Difficulty

  • easy

Average duration

4 hrs

Solution code

Technologies

Difficulty

  • easy

Average duration

4 hrs

Solution code

Technologies

Difficulty

  • easy

Average duration

4 hrs

Solution code

Technologies

Difficulty

  • easy

Average duration

4 hrs

Solution code

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Difficulty

  • easy

Average duration

4 hrs

Solution code

Technologies

Difficulty

  • easy

Average duration

4 hrs

Solution code

Technologies

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