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Forty-Three Post-Apocalyptic Website Project Ideas
(To Sharpen Your Web Development Skills and Send Zombies Shuffling Back to their Horde in Shame)
Forty-three project ideas, plus wireframes for each idea, four sample designs, and two full builds all to aid your practice and help you kick the snot out of the Apocalypse
An Introduction to Programming in PHP: Stomping Zombies with Variables, Loops, Functions and More
Start taking down the zombie horde with rapid fire web development programs. This book introduces you to PHP and a wide variety of beginner programming topics like variables, conditional statements, loops and functions.
Search Engine Optimization:
How to Make your Site Stand Out from the Apocalyptic Horde
How do you ensure your site stands out from the horde of zombies clawing for your customer’s attention? Search engines.
Get rid of search engine road blocks and set your site up for success. Better understand how search engines work, the ways they see your site, and what they do to process and ingest your content.
JavaScript Monetization API: How to Fund your Human Resistance Cell after the Apocalypse
This book discusses the emerging web monetization standard that allows site owners to receive micro payments (thousandths of a cent) privately and securely from anyone in the world. You’ll understand how it works, how to set it up and how to work with the JavaScript Monetization API to create a VIP experience for your monetized web users.
Code Isn’t as Scary as Zombies: HTML & CSS for Writers, Editors, and Beginners
In this video course, you’ll get an intro to both HTML and CSS and look at the tags and styles that matter most for enhancing your writing for the web (and/or killing zombies). You’ll gain the confidence to hand code basic structures, handle weird code from Word, spice up your pull-quotes and dive deeper into code that enhances the presentation of your writing.
JavaScript Basics: Flinging Event, Element, and Object Bombs at Zombie Heads
Got basic programming skills but are new to JavaScript? You’ll learn how to work with JavaScript objects, properties, methods, you’ll get comfortable with the almighty Document Object Model (DOM) and you’ll fill your post-apocalyptic social calendar with JavaScript Events. Get ready to kick some serious zombie tuchus.
The Apocalyptic HTML Arsenal:
An Undead Institute HTML Reference DictionaryWhen you’re in the trenches fighting a zombie onslaught, you’ll need your weapons at your fingertips. This HTML element and global attribute reference book will keep your web development weapons sharp. Each entry contains a fun description, opening/closing tags, flow type, important attributes, related elements and example code.
An Introduction to Programming in JavaScript: Stomping Zombies with Variables, Loops, Functions and More
Start taking down the zombie horde with rapid fire web development programs. This book introduces you to JavaScript and a wide variety of beginner programming topics like variables, conditional statements, loops and functions.
PFC Wiggins’s Unofficial Commissary: An HTML & CSS Workbook
Put those zombie fighting skills to the test with this workbook featuring skills you’ve learned in the first six books from the Undead Institute. You’ll build a website for PFC Wiggins’s Unofficial Commissary, a source of cheese, “meat” and other goods for humanity’s compulsory, post-apocalyptic armed forces. With nothing but your wits and web skills you’ll take the site from a blank page through creating a fully functional, responsive website.
101 Terrible Zombie Jokes: Plus 13 That Might Actually be Funny
You’ve heard of a zombie only a mother could love, well this is a joke book only a dad could love. Well him and all those with refined tastes in fatherly humor. You’ll laugh, cry and definitely groan (or is it moan?) at these original, zombie-themed jokes from the braaains behind the Undead Institute.
Modern CSS Layout: Decking Zombies With Style
The layout apocalypse is over. With CSS Grid, Flexbox, and Columns you can design and build complex layouts that respond to screens of all sizes.
We’ll discuss not only these layout techniques, but how they can be enhanced with writing direction agnostic properties, making the internationalization of your layout that much easier.
CSS Animation: De-animating the Undead Horde
Nothing takes down zombies like an HTML element on the move. You’ll learn how to trigger transitions and then how to create a more complex movements, color changes and more using keyframes, easing functions, delays, and durations. So take those static zombie poking sites and turn them into zombie smacking tanks of human ingenuity.
More Advanced CSS: Zombie in a Ballgown
Covering such apocalyptic topics as CSS shapes, blend modes, filters, gradients, counters and much more, this guide to smacking down zombies will take your CSS skills from afternoon luxury to evening gown elegance. Sharpen your skills to a razor edge and be ready for the apocalypse
JavaScript Cheat Sheets
Only available directly from the Undead Institute, we’ve got six JavaScript cheat sheets that should help you put the hurt on the horde even faster. Cheat sheets include JavaScript Loops, Variables & Conditionals; JavaScript Events, Elements & Objects; JavaScript Events; JavaScript Event Handler HTML Attributes; Universal Attributes; and JavaScript Monetization API
Zombie CSS Cheat Sheets
Only available directly from the Undead Institute, we’ve got eight CSS cheat sheets that should help you put the hurt on the horde even faster. Cheat sheets include CSS Text Properties, Color Keywords, CSS Animation, Modern CSS Layout, CSS Gradients/Filters/Blend Modes, Responsive Design, CSS Specificity, and CSS Content & HTML Entities.
Zombie HTML Cheat Sheets
Six cheat sheets to get you stomping those zombies wherever you find them. Cheat sheets include the most used and useful HTML elements, HTML’s spare bullets, HTML’s universal attributes, HTML’s ARIA attributes, HTML’s ARIA roles, and the JavaScript event handler attributes.
The Fourth Human Resistance Unit: JavaScript Intro, Basics and Monetization
Includes the digital books
– An Introduction to Programming in JavaScript
– JavaScript Basics
– JavaScript Monetization API
The Third Prong of the Zombie Offensive: More Advanced CSS, Animation and Layout
Includes the digital books
– More Advanced CSS: Zombie in a Ballgown
– CSS Animation: De-animating the Undead Horde
– Modern CSS Layout: Decking Zombies with Style
Humanity’s Second Chance: HTML Forms, Intermediate CSS, and Responsive Design
Includes the digital books
– HTML5 Forms & Interactive Elements: Or How to Poke a Zombie in the Eye
– Intermediate CSS: Zombie in a Cocktail Dress
– Responsive Design: An Undead Introduction to Mobile Web Development
My First Webpocalypse: A Beginner’s Guide to HTML, CSS, and Usability
Includes the digital books
– A Beginner’s Guide to Learning HTML (and Smacking Zombies Upside the Web Development)
– Beginner CSS: Like Putting Lipstick on a Zombie
– Beginner Usability: A Novice’s Guide to Zombie Proofing Your Website
HTML5 Forms & Interactive Elements: Or How to Poke a Zombie in the Eye
Nothing stops zombies better than HTML5 forms and interactive elements (not even a shotgun or a harsh talking to from their mother). These HTML5 tags are engaging, helpful and don’t require complicated coding. In short they’re like a bazooka to a shotgun, taking down zombies with ease, flair, and panache.
Beginner Usability: A Novice’s Guide to Zombie Proofing Your Website
This book covers the gap between code and design, the things zombies hope you won’t learn, usability. It’s how a user interacts with your site and whether they can find the information they came looking for or complete the task they set out to do. Better maintenance and better usability both lead to less crying and fewer zombies. That’s a win and a delayed apocalypse for everyone!
A Beginner’s Guide to Learning HTML
(and Smacking Zombies Upside the Web Development)Only your web skills can save the planet from the apocalyptic hordes. You’ll learn the major HTML elements, how use them and how to punch zombies in the HTML5. You’ll learn the structure of a web page, how to mark up text, how to wrangle attributes, and ways to embed media. By the time you’re done you’ll know how to build your own web page and kick zombies in the throat with your skills.
Beginner CSS: Like Putting Lipstick on a Zombie
When you take websites from skeletal HTML structures to fleshed out CSS beauties they’ll take out twice the zombies per site. You’ll learn all the major zombie-fighting CSS skills like how to set colors, change fonts, create backgrounds, use the CSS box-model, move elements around and build two column layouts with floats and positioning. Your webpages will never again be as drab as a zombie’s thought processes again.
Intermediate CSS: Zombie in a Cocktail Dress
Level up your zombie-stomping CSS skills. The more zombie butt you kick the better it is for the human race, so once you have a basic understanding of CSS, this book will take your zombie butt kicking to a whole new level. We’ll discuss specificity wars, pseudo classes, pseudo elements, how to kick zombies in the @font-face, CSS operators, attribute selectors, and how to take your styles to a whole new medium entirely: print.
Responsive Design: An Undead Introduction to Mobile Web Development
Zombies can attack anytime and anywhere. With responsive design you’ll build one website to stop them all.You’ll learn how responsive design works, why it’s a great option, how media queries can change your page, what the viewport meta tag does, what to do about images and other media, and a horde of best practices for making your website awesome no matter what screen it displays on.
Undead Web 101: Student Bundle
Includes A Beginner’s Guide to Learning HTML (and Smacking Zombies Upside the Web Development), Beginner CSS: Like Putting Lipstick on a Zombie, Beginner Usability: A Novice’s Guide to Zombie Proofing Your Website, HTML5 Forms & Interactive Elements: Or How to Poke a Zombie in the Eye, Intermediate CSS: Zombie in a Cocktail Dress, Responsive Design: An Undead Introduction to Mobile Web Development. Plus the HTML & CSS cheatsheets, PFC Wiggins’s Unofficial Commissary: An HTML & CSS Workbook, and an intro to web developer tools.