For this project you will develop a basic website with three individual pages, or a one page website with with three linked sections. There are three options for this project.
- Download a free theme from HTML5up.net and use that as a starting point.
- Build your site from scratch, being sure to use and demonstrate your agility with Flexbox and standard CSS.
- This one is reserved, and recommended, for Dev track students who have never used WordPress. Visit the excellent section on WordPress from our Introductory Web Development workbook, and build your 3 page site with this platform. My expectations aren’t super high, but I think that it is important that all students gain exposure to easy to use content management systems, and WordPress is by far the most popular of that genre.
Regardless of the option you choose, be sure and add some images; ideally original photographs taken by.
IMPORTANT: Make sure that the images are appropriately sized, which in most cases means that the actual image size (not the way it is displayed on the page, the size of the image itself) is no more than 800px wide. Huge images that download slowly are a sure sign of a bad web developer! And one of my pet peeves :).