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Natalie Maclees
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contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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Time for action – sizing headlines to the screen width


Perform the following steps to create headlines that resize according to the width of the browser window:

  1. We'll get started by creating a basic HTML document and associated files and folders just like we did in Chapter 1, Designer, Meet jQuery. Inside the HTML document, we're going to create a bit of text with a headline, as follows:

    <div class="content">
      <h1>What is Typography?</h1>
      <p>Typography is the art ...</p>
    </div>
  2. Inside styles.css, some basic CSS that is applied helps to set the size of the heading, the paragraph, and padding and margin around both elements. If you take a look at the sample code included with the book, you'll see the following bit of CSS that styles basic text elements:

    .content p {
      line-height: 1.5;
      margin: 1.125em 0;
    }
    
    .content h1 {
      font-size: 3.375em;
      line-height: 1.125;
      margin: 1.125em 0 0.5em 0;
    }

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Natalie Maclees

contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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