So I’m just starting (or trying to start) my Personal Portfolio challenge, and I’m running into the same instant roadblock I did when I tried to start my Tribute Page challenge. In spite of all the coding tutorials we did in the early lessons, I still have no idea what the first things are that I sh…

Please checkout Boostrap document on how to get the Navbar working and other sites like w3c schools http://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap/ https://getbootstrap.com/examples/navbar/ I would start out with sketching the layout in a piece of paper on 1) what your layout/content would be 2) Start with s…

I suppose that depends on what you want your web site to do. If you’re focused on look and feel than yeah, start with the design and layout. However, if you’re worried about functionality first, build the functionality first - making it work can sometimes be more important than the look. For any …

Related discussion from a little while ago…some good tips in this thread: [image] Portfolio… JS? Where to start? OK, I did a second pass through all the challenges leading up to the tribute page and the portfolio. The tribute page went well. Now I am really, really challenged by the p…

I don’t know about “shoulds” but this is what I do whenever starting a new FCC project: Create blank HTML, CSS, and JS files locally on my computer (I don’t use CodePen during the development process and would encourage others to do the same, as inevitably you’ll end up doing that anyway once you …

Thank you so much for the replies! This is still a pretty intimidating task, but I’ll take the advice listed here and will keep chipping away at it :slight_smile:

I don’t know much about the concepts of AGILE - but there’s a tidbit I took from it that I find very helpful. Any project you want to work on is going to look huge if you look at it as a whole. However, if you take the end goal and break it down into smaller pieces, and then work on one piece at a …

What are the first things I should always do when creating a new website from scratch?

JacksonBates August 11, 2016, 2:20am 4

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What are the first things I should always do when creating a new website from scratch?

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