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Add Starter Files

Goals

  • Add some starter files to your project

Steps

Step 1

Download the .zip file from this link When the file download finishes, find it on your computer and unzip it.

Step 2

The zip file should contain a file called index.html and a directory of resources."

Drag the file called index.html and resources folder into your project folder. Go ahead and replace the index.html file you may already have in there.

Explanation

What Are These Files?

Just to save you some time, we've supplied a bare bones HTML document, a CSS stylesheet, a JavaScript file, and a placeholder image. But you could have typed up these files yourself with your text editor, if you'd wanted to.

If you are starting a new project in the future, try typing it all out by hand a few times to get the hang of it, and then try starting with some other people's HTML boilerplate code that they've shared:

  • HTML5 Boilerplate, a blank template with lots of tips for high-performance best practices.
  • Twitter Bootstrap, an HTML / CSS base with a big library of styles to test out.

Next Step:

Go on to Make A Web Page

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