Build Your First Website
A no-nonsense fast track to teach you how to develop a web site from scratch.
What you'll learn
The Web can be a daunting place, with literally hundreds of technology options. You could spend years trying to understand all of the ways to design, develop, and publish a web site. This course cuts through the mountain of options, and shows you how to develop and publish a web site in less than half a day. If you have never built a web site, and want to learn the basics of web development without going overboard with theory, this course may be what you are looking for. We'll use the Microsoft technology stack to build a web site from scratch, describing each step from a developer's perspective with just enough context to understand what you are developing.
Table of contents
- Three types of files 2m
- Getting the project started 9m
- Running for the first time 4m
- Adding the menus 5m
- Creating the CSS file 13m
- Styling the menu 5m
- Filling out the page templates 6m
- Putting content on the home page 13m
- Setting up the Services page 10m
- Setting up the History page 7m
- Setting up the Contact page 9m
About the author
Doug has spent the last 20+ years working in the software industry, starting out as a developer on Windows and Macintosh systems. Over time, he has shifted his focus to strategic thinking around technology, content and messaging, evangelism, and customer advocacy. At different times in his career he has been a developer, author, trainer, tweeter, marketer and occasional conference speaker. He has spent the last decade at Microsoft as an evangelist, technical marketer, and program manager for the... more