Website building is an essential part of computer science

It is also different from your other types of coding as it’s not as much logic based, and more like building-blocks

The most common way to build websites is to use the language HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

I know it may be scary hearing you have to learn three languages, but there isn’t much to each of them, and there are countless resources available to look back to.

Installation

Guess what? Technically, you have HTML, CSS, and JavaScript already installed (hopefully). Any browser reads HTML, as these coding languages tells your browser where to put the text and images and links to create a webpage.

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For example, if you look at Google’s homepage, there is an HTML image displaying the “Google” picture. There is an HTML button that is displaying the “Search” and “Feeling Lucky” buttons.

Now let’s get ready to write our own.

The most popular tool to write for web development is Visual Studio Code. This is what will be used for this guide. It can be downloaded here:

After you download and install Visual Studio Code (VS Code), you must create a project location. Let’s do this by creating a folder on your Desktop.

Now launch VS Code, and go to File > Open Folder and open the folder you just created on your Desktop.

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First Website

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
	<head>
		<title>First Website</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	</body>
</html>

So here is some beginner HTML code. Let’s talk about it.