Creating Website Handout
1. Create [Link], [Link], and images folder inside of your root folder
2. Create base html tags in [Link] (!DOCTYPE, html, head, body, header, footer,
a.
3. Add your links in your head to the CSS style sheet and bootstraps CSS style file.
a. <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”[Link]”>
b. <link rel=”stylesheet”
href="[Link]
integrity="sha384-
JcKb8q3iqJ61gNV9KGb8thSsNjpSL0n8PARn9HuZOnIxN0hoP+VmmDGMN5t9UJ0Z"
crossorigin="anonymous">
4. Add the rest of your <meta> tags for character sets, language, viewport, and title
a. <!--this sets the character set to unicode 8 bit which is most languages & glyphs -->
i. <meta charset="utf-8">
b. <!-- add responsive viewport tag -->
i. <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-
to-fit=no">
c. <!--this sets the title of the tab in the browser, and tells the search engine what the
website is about -->
i. <title>Silly Scooters</title>
5. Start building Navigation Bar for [Link], and links to all pages. DON’T BUILD OTHER PAGES
YET!
a. Customize navigation bar
6. Start putting basic placeholders on website on [Link], images, paragraphs, headings, links
7. Add classes, styling, id’s to different html tags in your [Link] file to customize the font, color,
and backgrounds for each element. Including the header
8. Once [Link] is complete with either placeholders or real images and content, THEN COPY
[Link] and rename to other pages such as [Link], about_me.html,
contact_me.html, [Link], etc…
9. COPY HEADER FROM [Link] ON ALL PAGES EXACTLY, re labelling the “Active” class
element for the tab in the header. Test all links in headers to make sure they work
10. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for the rest of your pages, replacing placeholders with actual content when
design process is ready.
11. Finish any necessary styling in [Link] or with bootstrap classes on every page
12. Test each web page to ensure every link acts the way you expect it to
13.