Class 1

Web Development Essentials

What We'll Cover

Geared toward beginners, this course will give you a solid foundation in the world of web development from both coding and cultural perspectives. After building a website from the ground up using HTML, CSS, jQuery, and PHP, you'll be ready to continue your learning (via additional Tackle Box courses, duh).

A big part of this class will be setting up a development environment and learning to see your computer as a tool rather than a black box. Prepare for keyboard shortcuts. In addition, learning to code involves understanding the culture behind development. For example, the motive behind open sourcing software can seem foreign if you aren’t familiar with the culture of the web. We’ll talk about this and more.

The Project

In this class, we will build a static website with HTML, CSS, jQuery, and a little bit of PHP - similar to this one. We'll set up a local development environment with MAMP, and at the end of the course we will review what is involved in getting your website online! The topic of your site can be anything you like, but it should be something with primarily static content (no e-commerce or webapps). In the videos, I chose to create a website for my dad's hypothetical jam company.

Pre-Knowledge

No prior knowledge of web development necessary, though a refresher never goes amiss. This course is geared toward beginners and is a great precursor to the WordPress Fundamentals course.