How to Code a Social Media Dashboard
3 min readJul 5, 2024
Creating a social media dashboard is a great project to learn about web development, API integration, data visualization, and responsive design. In this tutorial, we’ll build a simple social media dashboard using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with data fetched from social media APIs.
Prerequisites
Before you start, ensure you have:
- Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- A text editor (such as VSCode, Sublime Text, or Atom).
- Accounts on social media platforms that provide APIs (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, Instagram).
Step 1: Setting Up the Project
Create a new directory for your project and add the following files: index.html, style.css, and script.js.
Project Structure:
social-media-dashboard/
├── index.html
├── style.css
├── script.jsStep 2: Writing Basic HTML
First, let’s create the basic structure of our social media dashboard using HTML. We’ll include sections for different social media platforms.
index.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport"…