Build a simple web site from scratch
Overview
There are lots of ways to build a web site for different needs. Sometimes you need to build a large scale complicate e-Commerce system to sell your products and manage your customers. While a lot of times, you might just need to create a few simple self-manageable pages to show information to people. This post provides an approach to handle the later case. You don’t need any IT background to build this kind of web sites, but follow some simple tech skills could make your life easier alone the way.
Cases this tutorial covering
Case # | Name | Description | Complexity (1-10) |
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1 | HTML pages | Pure HTML/CSS/JavaScript files * Pro: simple * Con: hard to manage Ideal for a few informational pages |
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So let’s start step by step, the overall time of seeing your first page published is about 20 minutes!
Steps
Create source control and hosting account
We will be using GitHub and Netlify to create our web pages.
Web Component CheckList
Here’s a list of components that can be used to build your web sites.
- Accordion
- Tout
- Menu
- Form
- Breadcrumb
- Popup section
- Scroll to top