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Paul C. Ishaili
Paul C. Ishaili

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Absolute Beginners' Guide to Building a Website.

There are times I would have loved it that I am part of my website development process, that I can change the color of my footer to my favourite color of my good dreams.
~ Unknown

Introduction

This absolute beginners' friendly guide is to those who already have a good solid understanding of using their computers and would want to dive into exploring the interesting space of building websites for themselves, friends, colleague or to show to the whole world that something more can be done with their time and understanding.

In following along in this learning phase, it is expected that one already have a prerequisite grounded understanding of how the computer works, which includes: turning on and off a computer, using the internet to send emails and chat on social media, creating new files and folders on a computer, renaming files and directories, using various office applications with ease, installing and uninstalling applications on your computer system.

Never underestimate what has brought you this far!

If you have all these prerequisite checked, great! We can go ahead in this Absolute Beginners' Friendly Guide to Building a Website.

Duration

The Expected duration of going through these and fully grasping the understanding to aid in moving to next levels is six (6) weeks to 3-months, with absolute attention, when required to various tasks, assignment and lectures that will be involved in this learning phase.

What is needed to take part in this

  • A Computer (A laptop or desktop computer)
  • Able to use the internet browser
  • Internet Connection (Data) to download various the various tools needed and continue in the class.
  • Able to download and install softwares

How to Get Started

Click here to get started!

Glossary

Web Page

An interconnected page consisting of hyperlinks`

Website

An interconnected site hosted on the internet consisting of several webpages that includes hyperlinks to aid in navigating the several pages on the site.

HTML

HyperText Markup Langauge

CSS

Cascading SpreadSheet

WWW

World Wide Web

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