Okay, so I wanted to make a countdown timer for the new Fortnite season. I heard that the new season, Chapter 5 Season 4, is gonna drop on August 16, 2024, at around 10 a.m. ET. I found this info in the battle pass section, so it should be legit. The first thing I did was set up a basic HTML page. I’m not a pro at web design, but I know enough to get by.
I started with a simple structure:
- Created an HTML file – I just made a new file and named it “*”.
- Added some basic HTML tags – You know, the usual
<html>,<head>, and<body>stuff. - Put in a title – Inside the
<head>, I added a<title>tag saying “Fortnite Countdown”.
Next, I needed to actually display the countdown. I decided to use JavaScript for this, ’cause it’s pretty straightforward for this kind of thing.
- Added a
<div>for the timer – Inside the<body>, I created a<div>with an id “timer”. This is where the countdown will show up. - Wrote some JavaScript – I added a
<script>tag at the end of the<body>.
Inside the script, I did the following:
- Set the target date – I created a variable
endDateand set it to “August 16, 2024 10:00:00 EST”. This is the date and time of the new season. - Calculated the time remaining – I used
setIntervalto update the timer every second. Inside this function, I got the current date and time, calculated the difference between the current time and theendDate, and figured out the days, hours, minutes, and seconds left. - Displayed the countdown – I updated the “timer”
<div>with the calculated time remaining. I used some simple string formatting to make it look decent.
After I got the basic timer working, I wanted to make it look a bit nicer. Nothing fancy, just some basic styling.
- Added some CSS – I put a
<style>tag in the<head>and added some styles. - Styled the timer – I gave the “timer”
<div>a background color, some padding, and centered the text. Made it look a bit more presentable.
So, there you have it. It wasn’t too hard, but it was a fun little project. Now I have a working countdown timer for the new Fortnite season. I know Epic Games usually takes the servers down for maintenance before the update, so players won’t be able to play during that time. But at least we’ll know exactly when the new season starts!
It’s pretty cool to see the numbers tick down, and it gets me even more hyped for the new season. I’m no coding expert, but I managed to put this together, and it works pretty well. I just followed the basic steps, did some simple calculations, and used some very basic styling. It’s a good reminder that sometimes, you don’t need to be a pro to create something cool and useful.
The End
That’s my little journey of making a Fortnite countdown timer. Hopefully, this gives you an idea of how I did it. Maybe you can even make your own! It’s not as hard as it might seem. Just take it step by step, and you’ll get there. And hey, if I can do it, so can you!
