Building a News Site with HTML & CSS

[NewsProject]

I am thinking about building a news site using HTML & maybe CSS.
Where to begin? Any feedback is welcome.
Any suggestions on what to add on there?
Feel free to guide me. Thank you.

 

[Malcolm]

Okay.. have you create a .html yet or anything?

 

[NewsProject]

Okay.. have you create a .html yet or anything?

Not yet.

 

[Malcolm]

Not yet.

Then I'd start off by building an HTML document and laying out your site that you wish to build. If you aren't too familiar with HTML/CSS I'd recommend taking a look at these resources.

https://codeforum.org/threads/what-is-html.31/
https://codeforum.org/threads/what-is-css.33/

 

[NewsProject]

Then I'd start off by building an HTML document and laying out your site that you wish to build. If you aren't too familiar with HTML/CSS I'd recommend taking a look at these resources.

https://codeforum.org/threads/what-is-html.31/
https://codeforum.org/threads/what-is-css.33/

Thanks. I'll check it out.

 

[Tealk]

What would you like to suggest?
It is best to create a local bootstrap and use it, so you have the same adjustments for all devices.

 

[NewsProject]

What would you like to suggest?
It is best to create a local bootstrap and use it, so you have the same adjustments for all devices.

Good idea. Right now I am planning the sitemap.

 

[NewsProject]

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[Tealk]

Good idea. Right now I am planning the sitemap.

This is your first step?

 

[NewsProject]

This is your first step?

Yes. Planning everything out. Looking for an online website editor at the moment.

 

[Tealk]

I think you use the term sidemap incorrectly.

Looking for an online website editor at the moment.

Then it is already clear that it will be full of third party sources and dirty written code

 

[Krusty the Senile]

Depending on what you'd like to accomplish at the beginning, you can focus on HTML and CSS to get an understanding of the page rendering side of things (paragraphs, headers, text formatting and alignment, CSS control over these things) or use a ready made solution like WordPress which would give you an infrastructure to focus developing the content.

For news sites and others that rely on content that is not embedded into the HTML/CSS/JS, there is a whole other level to consider when planning how you would manage content (like news articles, possibly user accounts) versus formatting and displaying it (which is where HTML/CSS would come in). I guess start simple and go for basic HTML/CSS at the beginning.

 

[NewsProject]

I think you use the term sidemap incorrectly.



Then it is already clear that it will be full of third party sources and dirty written code

There's nothing wrong with 3rd party sources. Edited dirty written code =P

 

[NewsProject]

Depending on what you'd like to accomplish at the beginning, you can focus on HTML and CSS to get an understanding of the page rendering side of things (paragraphs, headers, text formatting and alignment, CSS control over these things) or use a ready made solution like WordPress which would give you an infrastructure to focus developing the content.

For news sites and others that rely on content that is not embedded into the HTML/CSS/JS, there is a whole other level to consider when planning how you would manage content (like news articles, possibly user accounts) versus formatting and displaying it (which is where HTML/CSS would come in). I guess start simple and go for basic HTML/CSS at the beginning.

Thinking of using a basic and easy website builder. Got any suggestions?

 

[Krusty the Senile]

Thinking of using a basic and easy website builder. Got any suggestions?

WordPress? (https://wordpress.org/)

Depending on your development machine/environment, you're going to need some sort of webserver, PHP support, and a database. You can get this set up on a local machine - what's your development environment?

 

[NewsProject]

WordPress? (https://wordpress.org/)

Depending on your development machine/environment, you're going to need some sort of webserver, PHP support, and a database. You can get this set up on a local machine - what's your development environment?

Thanks for the suggestion, WP is good but I want new tech you know some new website builder.

 

[Malcolm]

Thanks for the suggestion, WP is good but I want new tech you know some new website builder.

Wordpress would be great for what you're doing...

 

[NewsProject]

Wordpress would be great for what you're doing...

Any alternatives to WP?

 

[Tealk]

I think wordpress is a good place to start.
Although you'll have to make some adjustments to make it safe.

There's nothing wrong with 3rd party sources.

This is the ignorance of web developers that will lead us all to ruin.
If you don't care about your users, it is already interesting for you; If your external provider has problems, your website is offline.

 

[Krusty the Senile]

Besides Wordpress, when I was looking into doing something like this, I noticed Drupal (https://www.drupal.org/) and Joomla (https://www.joomla.org/). Probably the choices you're looking for can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems