Producing a PDF or screen grab of a web page

Producing a PDF or screen grab of a web page

Producing a PDF of a web page doesn’t preserve all graphics, layout and other design / functionality features, but it does enable you to save a record of some of the web page’s content, for reference. If you’d like to save a purely visual record of how the...

Multimedia Toolkit

There are lots of tools available to you that can help you create all sorts of multimedia: from maps and infographics to interactive timelines and images. Here’s a list of tools we think our students have found useful. The list is not exhaustive, so feel free to...
Newspaper style layout using just HTML and CSS

Newspaper style layout using just HTML and CSS

After reading a post about how Chris Pattle constructed the Simpsons characters completely out of HTML and CSS, I set myself a challenge to show that you can make just about any layout using simple HTML and CSS. I grabbed a copy of The Guardian from 26th November...
Guide to web coding

Guide to web coding

An understanding of the principal technologies of web is a really powerful tool for a journalist. This guide will cover the basic tools and principles of HTML and CSS. HTML and CSS can be used to create web content for browsers, tablets and mobiles and many...
Basic HTML

Basic HTML

Here’s a few tutorials on basic HTML. The tutorials use codepen as the editor – so sign up and follow...