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Chantal
Chantal

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New to coding, where to start?

I am new to coding and need help with building a simple website.

What is the most common layout of a basic webpage and what are the building steps?

โ€‹Thank you

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Anita Olsen • Edited

One of my favourite code-learning sites got an excellent free HTML tutorial for beginners. You can check it out here: w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp
Good luck!

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Chantal

Thank you for helping. I will check it out:)

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Nicholas Stimpson • Edited

The greatest joy of HTML is that it has an extremely shallow learning curve. Literally write "Hello World" into a file and save it with an .html extension. Open it in a browser, and the browser will display it. Pure HTML, CSS, and JS has no build steps at all. Just write the file in your favourite editor and you've made a start. This is hugely confidence giving and you can build out at your own speed from there. Don't worry about "common layouts" to begin with. Just get used to using the HTML elements. Layouts can come later.

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Chantal

I will do that. Thank you for your advice:)

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Nathan Tarbert

pretty cool jumping in like this tbh - you think getting started is more about finding the right guides or just getting your hands dirty and figuring it out as you go?

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Chantal

To be honest, I do think I need some guidance. I have been jumping right into coding but got a little bit lost along the way. I got advice to start with w3school. I will do that.