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JavaScript Monetization API: How to Fund your Human Resistance Cell after the Apocalypse – Part 3

Editor’s Note: Since this book was originally written Coil has stopped operations, which has put implementation of this on hold. That said, the content here should be accurate if/when another company takes up Coil’s mantle. Continued from Part 2 The Prerequisites for the JavaScript Monetization API Let’s first discuss the parts the user needs to... Read More

JavaScript Monetization API: How to Fund your Human Resistance Cell after the Apocalypse – Part 2

Editor’s Note: Since this book was originally written Coil has stopped operations, which has put implementation of this on hold. That said, the content here should be accurate if/when another company takes up Coil’s mantle. Continued from Part 1 Merchandising requires literal user buy-in—that is, users buying products or services from you. Again, this can be... Read More

JavaScript Monetization API: How to Fund your Human Resistance Cell after the Apocalypse – Part 1

Editor’s Note: Since this book was originally written Coil has stopped operations, which has put implementation of this on hold. That said, the content here should be accurate if/when another company takes up Coil’s mantle. Important Notes Full disclosure: The author received a grant to support the writing of this book, as well as two other... Read More

Undead Domains

When building a new website that you want to be publicly available, you need two things: (1) a domain name (e.g., undead.institute or 8wordstories.com) and (2) a place to host it and put it on the web so people can access it. Domain Names Domain names must be unique and come in all shapes and... Read More

Build Your First Website (And Thwack Zombies with HTML and CSS) – Part 6

Let’s add some space above and below the <nav> to help the site look great. We can do this with the margin-top and margin-bottom properties. While we’re working with the navigation, let’s set the color of nav a elements to orangered, and let’s remove the underline beneath the links by setting text-decoration to none. We... Read More

Build Your First Website (And Thwack Zombies with HTML and CSS) – Part 5

ApocalyptiCSS To add CSS, we need one more HTML element, the <style> element. The <style> element can technically go anywhere on your page, but within the head element is a good choice, since the CSS code is not so much what is being displayed as how it’s being displayed. So, we’ll add a style element... Read More

Build Your First Website (And Thwack Zombies with HTML and CSS) – Part 4

Of Zombies and Page Skeletons Next, let’s add some page-wide structural elements (a page’s skeleton). These won’t initially change how the page looks, but they will provide some semantic information about the types of content we’re using; provide spaces for us to add things the page needs, such as a header and a footer; and... Read More

Build Your First Website (And Thwack Zombies with HTML and CSS) – Part 3

Thwacking That First Zombie Go ahead and open the file content.txt. In it, you’ll find Dr. Boople’s essay, followed by a short bio about him and a list of “Steps to Resisting a Zombie’s Frieeendship.” This is the content you’ll use to build your site. Open index.html. You can do the next part directly in... Read More

Zombie Client/Zombie Server Model

Clients and Servers The web, and thereby the human resistance plans, has always been based on the client/server model. In this model, you have one centralized store of knowledge (the server)—much like the commander of your human resistance cell—and many different computers asking that server for information, like you and your apocalyptic colleagues asking the... Read More

Build Your First Website (And Thwack Zombies with HTML and CSS) – Part 2

Anatomy of an HTML Tag Without a skeleton, even the best human-resistance fighter would be a puddle of color and wasted life, and so would your web page. HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is that skeleton. It provides the structure for your web page and marks up that skeleton using elements. There are four parts to an HTML... Read More

Build Your First Website (And Thwack Zombies with HTML and CSS) – Part 1

Before we talk about code, let’s talk about files. You can think of a computer file as a single zombie. That zombie has some information, like which horde he’s in and perhaps a poem or two if he’s a more artistic zombie. Each zombie is part of a zombie nest (i.e., the group of zombies that...... Read More

Scavenger Hunt

Ready for an Easter Egg hunt? Within this website I have hidden eight pieces of a coupon code. If you can find all eight pieces you can put them together for $5 off any order of $5 or more (that’s a free eBook!). Also, the coupon will work if you only spend $4.99. I’m giving... Read More

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