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[Question: What is the best way to code a website?]

How do you generally go about coding a website like that?

That's actually a really good question.

So sometimes when we're teaching things, we try to teach it

in the best way or the most correct way, but really with web designing development,

it's a little bit more fuzzy than that--there's not really going to be a best way

to do things all the time and often times when I am making websites,

I'll go ahead and code up the HTML first.

I will sit and really think about--okay, here is the content that I have,

here is how I want to go ahead and structure it.

I think I'm going to need these divs or this area or whatever and structure all of the elements.

Then I'll go ahead and jump into my CSS and style everything, but often times

it is a little bit more kinetic and messy than that.

You kind of go back and forth between HTMLing and CSSing

until you kind of arrive at a conclusion.

I think a website is a lot like a painting or a film or something where it's never really quite done.

You could always keep tweaking it and doing things to it,

but the most important thing is that you lay down that good structure first

and then go ahead and figure out--okay, how do I want to present that content

and always keeping that clean separation of presentation and structure in your mind

I think just help in so many different ways.

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