I’m introducing a series I’ll be releasing as I produce it. BIY: Build it yourself. I’m going to walk you through building your own website from scratch the way I build websites—at the code level. Don’t be intimidated. Once you get a little foundation going, you’re going to feel really good about HTML and CSS, and you’ll be able to make your own website from scratch.
Why would you want to be able to write a website at the code level? There aren’t enough hours in a day to talk about why. For one, once you get going at it, you can build anything you want. You won’t be limited to blogs and blog templates. At the same time, I’ll walk you through some cool design basics so you can make your stuff look good. If you know how to manage your own space, you can keep the SEO value you build and build your brand. Learn the basics of how it’s all put together, and you’ll have a leg up on everyone else who is stuck with whatever Wordpress LETS them do. Plus, what if you’re a business owner? Wouldn’t you want to save thousands of dollars in web design fees doing it yourself?
The web is tricky to build but not hard. If you’ve even been curious about how do to it yourself, follow along.
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UPDATE: this is something I really want to make happen, but I just don’t have the time and organization skills to follow through with it. So for now it’s officially on the back burner.
What might be a little easier to pull off for me is to break down some sites/pages that I stumble on and really like. Instead of a DIY, it’d be more of a “How they made it” for HTML and CSS. Sound interesting? If all goes well I’ll have one up by the second week of 2010.
by Sean McCambridge on January 03, 2010 at 2:38 pm