Everyone has to start somewhere.
At the end of my first HTML class, I designed my first website. The topic was based upon an example used in class: One of the lessons mentioned ornithopters, which I had never heard of. I was intrigued, did a little research, and my Ornithopter website is the result.
In that first class, we were not taught how to change fonts, or how to do very much styling. After class, I did learn a little of that on my own, and experimented with it in a few of the ornithopter web pages. Basically, though, this website is exactly as I presented it at the end of the class.
(By the way, the retro look and cheesy color scheme were chosen deliberately, to give that sort of 'feel' to the site: emulating a sort of 90s-style green-grass-and-blue-sky effect.)
In my second class, we learned CSS and layouts. A quick look at the source code for my first site shows that the layout is all done with tables. In my second website, tables have given way to divs. The second example website has grown into a full-scale website, so I will need to make another example site, showing the features presented in our second class.
In a few months, I will take my third class, and will then post another "class project" demonstrating my new abilities. I plan to post a new example site after each class, showing my evolution as a website developer.
This page is currently set up very simply, using methods learned in my first class. (Without the table formatting, though.)
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To see some simple examples of website evolution, click the links below.
1 Ornithopters 2 Recipes