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What is the recommended approach to building your first website?
3:09 with TreehouseThe Treehouse teaching team recommends their approaches for building your first website. This question comes from Adwoa Masozi in the Facebook Group
[treehouse, Teacher Q&A]
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[What is the recommended approach to building your first website?]
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Take it slow.
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[answer by Amit Bijlani] There are a lot of websites out there that are amazing
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and they do all kinds of crazy things with the latest technologies.
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You have to walk before you can run,
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so take it slow, watch a few treehouse videos.
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That will help, definitely.
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Nick does a great job.
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You'll get there.
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[answer by Nick Pettit] So if you're building your first website,
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I highly recommend that you go with
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hand coding, HTML, and CSS,
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with whatever text editor you feel most comfortable with.
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This can even be the text editor that's built into the operating system,
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which is Notepad, in the case of Windows,
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and Text Edit, in the case of MAC OS10.
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When you hand code a website,
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you really learn a whole lot,
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and eventually you can start using
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CSS Frameworks to get you started.
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Or if you're really in a hurry,
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you can use hosted services
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or some kind of template or something and modify it.
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But, in general, it's always
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going to be better in that it's more flexible
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to hand code a website.
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That's really the best way to learn, because when you move on to
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the more higher-level stuff that's more abstract,
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you'll understand how it works.
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[answer by Allison Grayce] I think just having fun with it because,
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unlike--if you're used to print design,
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it's very finalized.
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When you send it off to print, it has to be perfect.
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But with web design, you get to constantly make changes
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and always go back to it.
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So just kind of experimenting with everything and just having fun with it.
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[answer by Jim Hoskins] Just start simple.
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It doesn't need to be anything dynamic.
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Just try to open up an HTML file, create some basic
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text and content that you want,
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and then learn about styling
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and try to get it looking really good.
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Then as you advance and learn more topics and more techniques,
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you can add more to it if you need something dynamic.
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You can add a blog or some interactive elements.
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But really it's about starting simple and bare basic
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and the bare bones and get the basics down
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and kind of enhancing it from there.
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I think that will really take you far in web development design
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because you really want to start with a core idea of what you're trying to build.
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That's usually to either convey a message or sell something
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or communicate, and that's really what our web designs
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and web applications are meant to do.
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And the technologies, like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
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are there to support that core.
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So start with the basics, and then add what you need to improve it.
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[answer by Jason Seifer] Copy.
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Take a website that you like and copy it,
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and then change things and tweak it from there.
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That will start to show you how the website works.
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[Q&A, treehouse]
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