Hands-On: Create a Website from Scratch

Course Description

Go hands-on and create a fully functional, low-maintenance, modern responsive website using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. No WordPress, no Bootstrap, no jQuery no libraries of any kind. Learn to share header, nav, and footer HTML code across web pages using PHP, which most web hosting providers include for free.

You’ll learn to choose fonts, a color scheme, create a header, nav bar, and footer, make the site responsive so it looks and works as well on phones and mobile devices as it does on larger screens. Use free FontAwesome fonts to add social media icons and stylized lists to your site. Create your own media cards, and learn some tricks for modernizing your HTML form controls.

What Will I Learn?

Create a modern responsive website using just HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript — and perhaps a few lines of PHP code if you’re like to share header, nav, and footer content across pages.

Requirements

Some hands-on experience with basic HTML and CSS and a code editor. Basic file and folder skills for Mac or Windows.

Who is the target audience?

• People learning web development who want to focus on the core front-end languages HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript WITHOUT Bootstrap, jQuery, or other libraries.
• Beginning developers looking to create great, low-maintenance websites for themselves or others.
• Developers who are looking for easy ways to share content, like header, nav, and footer HTML code, across pages.