Heads up! To view this whole video, sign in with your Courses Plus account or enroll in your free 7-day trial. Sign In Enroll

Web Design Q&A with Nick

Well done!

You have completed Web Design Q&A with Nick!

Sign up for Treehouse Back to Library

What's the best way to code a website?

1:46 with Nick Pettit

Nick is asked, "What's the best way to code a website?" Nick suggests coding the HTML first and then building CSS on top of that.

This video doesn't have any notes.

Related Discussions

Have questions about this video? Start a discussion with the community and Treehouse staff.

Sign up

    Related Discussions

    Have questions about this video? Start a discussion with the community and Treehouse staff.

    Sign up

    [Treehouse Teacher Q & A] 0:00
    [Question: What is the best way to code a website?] 0:05
    How do you generally go about coding a website like that? 0:06
    That's actually a really good question. 0:09
    So sometimes when we're teaching things, we try to teach it 0:11
    in the best way or the most correct way, but really with web designing development, 0:16
    it's a little bit more fuzzy than that--there's not really going to be a best way 0:25
    to do things all the time and often times when I am making websites, 0:29
    I'll go ahead and code up the HTML first. 0:34
    I will sit and really think about--okay, here is the content that I have, 0:37
    here is how I want to go ahead and structure it. 0:42
    I think I'm going to need these divs or this area or whatever and structure all of the elements. 0:45
    Then I'll go ahead and jump into my CSS and style everything, but often times 0:54
    it is a little bit more kinetic and messy than that. 1:00
    You kind of go back and forth between HTMLing and CSSing 1:02
    until you kind of arrive at a conclusion. 1:07
    I think a website is a lot like a painting or a film or something where it's never really quite done. 1:11
    You could always keep tweaking it and doing things to it, 1:19
    but the most important thing is that you lay down that good structure first 1:22
    and then go ahead and figure out--okay, how do I want to present that content 1:27
    and always keeping that clean separation of presentation and structure in your mind 1:32
    I think just help in so many different ways. 1:37
    [Question: What is the best way to code a website?] 1:40
    [Treehouse Teacher Q & A] 1:41

    You need to sign up for Treehouse in order to download course files.

    Sign up

      You need to sign up for Treehouse in order to set up Workspace

      Sign up