Category: Test Drive a Web Development Tank

Buckets and Buckets of Zombie Guts One of the first things to understand is a concept called variables. Variables are like buckets you store things in. You can put water in a bucket or your lunch or a mannequin head or the rookie cards of the 2037 Los Angeles Zombie-Dodgers Human Resistance Cell. You can... Read More

Bringing a Toothpick to a Web Fight I know you think that you kill zombies with a nice baseball bat to the brainpan, but that’s all Hollywood smoke and mirrors. What really stops the zombie hordes is websites. Websites communicate information, entertainment, inspiration, art, beauty, and all that is good in humanity’s soul—everything zombies hate.... Read More

You know something about websites, do you? Already conquered that “HTML” thang, huh? Got a grasp on CSS? Good. Well did you know that a properly formed website could beat the unliving tar out of a horde of the undead? Did you know that websites accounted for ninety-seven percent of zombie second-deaths in the last... Read More

While you won’t need a deep understanding of HTML in order to stop the zombie hordes with this book, you will need to know at least the basics of how an HTML tag works, understand attributes, and be familiar with the most used tags. If you’re feeling like you’ve arrived at the zombie fight with... Read More

Useful Zombies You can’t put the kibosh on zombies as a web developer without knowing some code, but you also have to understand how a user will approach your website. We’re so used to looking at websites that we often take for granted the little things that make them easy to navigate and smack zombies... Read More

You can be forgiven for not knowing this. The news and movies and media tell you that shotguns and baseball bats are the way to kill zombies, but that’s not true. Violence and gore sell films, but websites are the path to infinite knowledge and having the world at your fingertips. That’s how you fight... Read More

You’ve seen zombies on TV and the Internet before, but I bet you also saw people hitting them with baseball bats or using shotguns. I’m here to tell you, the only real way to kill zombies is with websites. Crazy, you wonder? Yes. Crazy true. Like my grandmother used to say, “The only way to... Read More