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[Treehouse Teacher Q & A]

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

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

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That's actually a really good question.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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You kind of go back and forth between HTMLing and CSSing

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until you kind of arrive at a conclusion.

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

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

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

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

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

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I think just help in so many different ways.

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

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