Want to build websites, but don’t know where to start? We’ve made a free video course for you. Web Development from Zero takes you from no experience at all to a real, mobile-friendly business website that you built yourself. All you need is a laptop.
What’s in the course
Ten short episodes are out now, each about 5 to 7 minutes long. Watch them in order, because each one builds on the last.
- How websites work: browsers, servers and domains explained simply, then install the free tools and make your first page.
- HTML, your first real page: headings, paragraphs and a proper page structure.
- Links, images and lists: including a WhatsApp chat link for your site.
- CSS: colours, fonts, spacing and the box model.
- Flexbox: put things side by side, like a logo on the left and a menu on the right.
- Responsive design: make your site look right on a phone, where most visitors are.
- Project, part 1: plan and build a website for a café in Jinja.
- Project, part 2: style the café site with CSS until it looks professional.
- JavaScript basics: your first script, and making a button do something.
- JavaScript on the café site: a mobile menu and orders sent straight to WhatsApp.
Episodes 11 and 12 are coming soon: a contact form and WhatsApp chat button, and then putting your website online.
How it works
In every episode the code types itself on screen while a live preview shows what each line does, so you see cause and effect. Pause, try it yourself in VS Code (a free editor), and finish the small challenge at the end. Then download the finished code for that episode and check your work against it.
Start learning
All ten episodes, with a free code download for each one, are on the course page: Web Development from Zero. You can also watch them on our YouTube channel. Subscribe there so you don’t miss the next episodes.