5 Publishing page posts

 

This chapter covers

  • Collaborating with ChatGPT to publish posts as accordions
  • Generating new images using DALL-E
  • Prompting ChatGPT to build an online journal page
  • Examining and customizing the ChatGPT web page code

Although many people dislike writing, lots of us truly enjoy the act of putting pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. Many of us love to write so much that, besides our more “serious” writing, we keep up a regular writing habit in the form of a frequently updated diary or journal. And a surprising number of those folks have a hankering to post these musings online. In fact, whenever I talk to people about building web pages, by far the most common question is, “How do I start an online journal/diary/blog?”

Fortunately, if you have some stuff already written, it’s straightforward to get ChatGPT to help you create a web page where you can publish your prose for all the world to read. You can also use AI to generate new images for things like site logos, icons, and page illustrations. This chapter also shows you how to use the combination of ChatGPT and OpenAI’s DALL-E image-creation model to generate whatever images you need for your page.

5.1 Understanding this chapter’s project

5.2 Building the online journal page

5.2.1 Working with accordions

5.2.2 Generating images with GPT-4 and DALL-E

5.2.3 Crafting the prompt

5.3 Examining the code

5.3.1 Examining the HTML

5.3.2 Examining the CSS

5.4 Customizing the page

Summary