Build Your First Website

Turn a simple idea into a website you can understand, publish, and update. Build Your First Website takes you from early planning to launch with practical steps for creating a small, responsive site.

Across seven chapters, you’ll define your site’s purpose, plan its pages, and build a working structure with HTML. You’ll organize content for clarity and accessibility, style pages with a shared CSS file, and adapt layouts for smaller screens. Then you’ll add a project filter with JavaScript and prepare your files for static hosting.

Exercises, checklists, visual examples, and practical tips help you apply each step as you go. Learn to connect pages with relative links, write useful image descriptions, preserve keyboard focus, spot common layout and file-path problems, and check your site before publishing. The guide also explains domains, DNS, HTTPS, and the difference between browser-side behavior and server-side processing.

• Plan a focused three-page project site
• Work through HTML, CSS, and a small JavaScript enhancement
• Check accessibility and responsive layouts
• Follow a provider-neutral workflow to publish and maintain your site

A practical starting point for adults ready to make a first website, one clear step at a time.