toxigeno / exercise-instagram-post

Practice your CSS/HTML skills by building the smallest project you can build: Instagram Post.

The Instagram Post

Instagram is one of the most popular user interfaces in the world, this is the first of three exercises that will make you replicate the most important and difficult parts of Instagram.com

In this case, we are starting with a single post.

Instructions

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

Strategy

Start by identifying which html <tags> you can use for the website, like <div>, <p>, etc. Here is a quick hint on a good strategy:

What to do if you are stuck?

Ask the instructor or classmates right away, do not stay stuck for more than 15min because this is one of your first exercises and your are not expected to know everything. Ask questions!!!

Fundamentals

This exercise covers the following fundamentals:

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