🚀 Three

Build and deploy five websites to Netlify with Scrimba

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  1. Instructions
  2. Acceptance Criteria
  3. Submission
  4. Help
  5. Extensions

Step 1: What to do

This course teaches you HTML and CSS by helping you make five great projects. You’ll also get to do over 75 coding tasks. You don’t need to know anything about coding to start - it’s good for complete beginners.

  1. Create an account on Scrimba
  2. Go to the course: Learn HTML and CSS on Scrimba
  3. Follow along and build the first five projects
  4. Share the links to your projects in the CYF Course platform as you go

The 5 projects you will do are:

  1. Build and deploy your first website: share your link, and move on to…
  2. Build a Google.com clone: share your link, and move on to…
  3. Build a Digital Business card: share your link, and move on to…
  4. Build a Space Exploration site: share your link, and move on to…
  5. Build a Birthday GIFt site: share your link, and unlock the next step
Learn HTML and CSS

Learn HTML and CSS

🔗 Scrimba

Step 3: How to check your work

A volunteer will review your submission and check it meets the acceptance criteria. They will give you feedback on your submission and help you make any changes to meet the criteria.

Here is the criteria you need to meet:

Step 1: How to show us

Submission

You must do this in CYF Course platform

  1. Share a link to your personal website deployed on Netlify
  2. Share a link to your Google.com clone website deployed on Netlify
  3. Share a link to your Digital Business Card website deployed on Netlify
  4. Share a link to your Space Exploration website deployed on Netlify
  5. Share a link to your Birthday GIFt website deployed on Netlify

Personalise your URLs

Before you share your link with your mentors, change your Netlify URL to include your name. You can use your first name or last name. To learn how to do this, follow this guide: Modify your domain name on Netlify.

Once you have personalised it, share the website link in the course platform. You’ll share five links in total.

How to get help

When you have a question, ask it.

💡 tip

Remember, Code Your Future is a community of adults sharing skills. We are all here to help each other, and learn. You are meant to ask questions at Code Your Future.

When you see someone else has a question, help them if you can.

First, visit our frequently asked questions page

When you have questions about coursework, ask in a workshop 🧶 🧶 workshop Code Your Future Workshops are meetings where you can get technical help. or in Slack 🧶 🧶 Slack Slack is messaging software - once you have downloaded Slack you can visit our Slack workspace to ask your questions.

Step 3: Extend Your Skills

Use your new skill in real life:

This optional step is just for you. You don’t need to submit it. Next, build a website to show your skills and experience. It’s a great way to show potential employers what you can do.

💡 tip

A site like this is called a portfolio. It’s a collection of your work and skills. Start now and keep adding to it as you learn new things.