🚀 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. Learn what to do and what to avoid when taking the Scrimba course
  3. Go to the course: Learn HTML and CSS on Scrimba
  4. Follow along and build the first five projects
  5. Make a public Google doc to collect the links to all your deployed projects on Netlify
  6. Add the links to your projects to your Google doc as you complete them
  7. Share the link to your Google doc on the CYF Course Platform when you have finished all five projects

The 5 projects you will do are:

  1. Build and deploy your first website: add your link to your doc, and move on to…
  2. Build a Google.com clone: add the link to your doc, and move on to…
  3. Build a Digital Business card: add your link to your doc, and move on to…
  4. Build a Space Exploration site: add your link to your doc, and move on to…
  5. Build a Birthday GIFt site: add your link to your doc, and…

When you have finished all five projects, add the link to your Google doc to the CYF Course Platform to complete the 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 submit a link to your work in the CYF Course platform

  1. You have completed all five projects on Scrimba
  2. You have deployed all five projects on Netlify
  3. You have created a public Google doc to collect the links to all your deployed projects
  4. You have shared the link to your Google doc on the CYF Course Platform

Personalise your URLs

Before you share your links 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.

You’ll share one document containing five links in total.

How to get help

When you have a question, ask it.

💡 Code Your Future is a Community

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.

You do not need to wait for a workshop to ask a question. You can ask questions in Slack at any time. We are here to help you understand and complete this course. Our goal is to help you learn.

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.

💡 Portfolio

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.